Events on Wednesday, August 19
Wednesday 8/19 @ Curran Theatre
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Wednesday 8/19 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
It could be a tabloid headline: "Cult-movie host morphs into seven-figure film director." Instead, it's the end to this 12th season...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Wednesday 8/19 @ David Brower Center
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sports, like romance, have become somewhat of an over-determined cinematic subject. Beyond ESPN, a series of sports-themed films and docs curated...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 8/19 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Various locations
This year's Bay Area Tap Festival will have dance aficionados clicking their heels in delight. In addition to a variety of...
Wednesday 8/19 @ 499 Castro St
One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class...
Wednesday 8/19 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre
Wednesday 8/19 @ Climate Theater
The foul-tempered, dirty-mouthed and ruggedly unkempt puppets of the Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre could easily be the bad seeds from Jim...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Forget BlueRay discs and plasma TVs. For true cinephiles, nothing lets a movie really sing like a pristine celluloid print. In...
Wednesday 8/19 @ The Lab
The Mission has seen many white cubes come and go, but the Lab has staying power. Chalk it up to the...
Wednesday 8/19 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Wednesday 8/19 @ San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco is often described by its square mileage (7x7), but the city's Art Comission Gallery and PhotoAlliance have expanded those...
