Events on Thursday, September 10
Thursday 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Thursday 9/10 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Thursday 9/10 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ Various locations
Attending the SF Fringe Festival is a bit of a crapshoot by design: coveted performance slots are awarded by chance via...
Thursday 9/10 @ Shotwell 50 Studios
One of the 20th century's most recognizable, beloved, and debated icons (and her genital-less beau) gets made over by more than...
Thursday 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ 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...
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
Thursday 9/10 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth's art plays off of science's tendency to make the world endlessly sub-divisible. What Michael Pollan...
Thursday 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild...
Thursday 9/10 @ Giant Robot
Fellow Americans Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, and Aiyana Udesen have drawn our country's future, pulling equally from assorted pieces of tattoo...
Thursday 9/10 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Thursday 9/10 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Local punks-turned-multi-platinum-Grammy-winners Green Day are returning to their Berkeley stomping grounds, but not how you'd expect. Collaborating with Spring Awakening director...
Thursday 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ 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 9/10 @ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...
Thursday 9/10 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yes, Mad Men is great, but Nicholas Ray beat Matt Weiner and Co. to the punch by nearly five decades with...
Thursday 9/10 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Thursday 9/10 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Thursday 9/10 @ 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...
Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box
Thursday 9/10 @ California College of the Arts
This event takes place at the Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway, Oakland CA Ana...
