Events on Wednesday, August 26
Wednesday 8/26 @ Knockout
We've been nutty over the Phenomenal Handclap Band ever since NYC party Mister Saturday Night introduced us to the rowdy eight-piece...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 8/26 @ Curran Theatre
Set in present-day
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Center for Sex and Culture
They're baaaack. Writers, performers, and all around goofballs Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen have put together another one of their fast...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Lab
The Mission has seen many white cubes come and go, but the Lab has staying power. Chalk it up to the...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
