Events on Wednesday, September 23
Wednesday 9/23 @ Vesuvio Cafe
By the time Ramparts magazine shuttered its operation in 1975, a short 13 years after its inception as a Catholic quarterly,...
, the debut album from...
Wednesday 9/23 @ California College of the Arts
Piero Lissoni is principal of the award-winning studio Lissoni Associati, based in Milan, working in architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 9/23 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Wednesday 9/23 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/23 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/23 @ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Lucricia Martel's films pulse with ideas and nuance underneath their surface of foregrounded sound design and rich colors. In the Argentinean...
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 9/23 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Wednesday 9/23 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Wednesday 9/23 @ California College of the Arts
Reception: Tues., Sept. 22, 6:30–8:30 p.m. An eclectic group of 32 international artists, including Damián Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska,...
Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box
Wednesday 9/23 @ California College of the Arts
This event takes place at the Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway, Oakland CA Ana...
Textiles Program Annual Student Exhibition
Wednesday 9/23 @ California College of the Arts
North/South Galleries, Oakland campus
5241 College Avenue
Oakland CA 94618 Reception: Wed., Sept. 30, 5:30–7:30 p.m. Graduate and undergraduate...
Global Perspectives: Architecture Summer Studios in Europe and South America Exhibition
Wednesday 9/23 @ California College of the Arts
Featuring student work from the Architecture summer 2009 travel studios in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Central Europe (Vienna, Berlin, and Basel)....
