Events on Thursday, August 20
Summer Exhibitions Cool-Down Party
Thursday 8/20 @ SF Camerawork
Late summer is the perfect time to play catch-up as local galleries and museums prepare to unveil their fall programming. Playing...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Booksmith
Blurring the lines between grassroots activism and agit-prop theater, San Francisco's Diggers embodied the counter-cultural ethos that defined the city in...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/20 @ Curran Theatre
Set in present-day
Thursday 8/20 @ Swarm Gallery
Steeped in the lush landscapes of their native Northwest, Seattle-based Vaughn Bell and Portland-based Josh Keyes cultivate a vision of the...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Thursday 8/20 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Thursday 8/20 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Various locations
This year's Bay Area Tap Festival will have dance aficionados clicking their heels in delight. In addition to a variety of...
Thursday 8/20 @ Johansson Projects
Jennie Ottinger's art presents a floating world populated with refugees from Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon canvases. Their skeletal frames...
Thursday 8/20 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Thursday 8/20 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Lab
The Mission has seen many white cubes come and go, but the Lab has staying power. Chalk it up to the...
Thursday 8/20 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Trading in glitz and gloss for elegant understatement, American pottery master Warren MacKenzie has spent half a century crafting simple, eminently...
Thursday 8/20 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
