Events on Thursday, September 17
Thursday 9/17 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Thursday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
The year is 1978 and Raúl — unnervingly oblivious to the Pinochet-backed terror around him, Santiago’s filth, and his needy girlfriend...
Thursday 9/17 @ 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...
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
Thursday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ American Conservatory Theater
Teaming up with ACT, England's Kneehigh Theatre smashes the fourth wall and then reconstructs it as a video screen in their...
Thursday 9/17 @ 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...
IXFF Indie Erotic Film Festival
Thursday 9/17 @ Various locations
This year's Indie Erotic Film Festival, thrown by the sex-positive folks at Good Vibrations, is bigger, better, and more licentious than...
Thursday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
Thursday 9/17 @ Brava Theater Center
From the synth wizards of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the '60s to the laptop-wielding young Turks of the...
Thursday 9/17 @ Various locations
Attending the SF Fringe Festival is a bit of a crapshoot by design: coveted performance slots are awarded by chance via...
Thursday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ San Francisco Public Library
The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk...
Thursday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Off-Market Theater
Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny....
Thursday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ California College of the Arts
This event takes place at the Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway, Oakland CA Ana...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Thursday 9/17 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
