Events on Thursday, September 24
Lecture by Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff
Thursday 9/24 @ California College of the Arts
Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff’s book and ongoing project Make It So explores how science fiction films and TV shows inform...
Contemporary Japanese Experimental Film
Thursday 9/24 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Measurement in the Impermanence: Contemporary Japanese Avant-Garde Film
co-curated by Tomonari Nishikawa & Vanessa O’Neill
presented in association...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/24 @ 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...
Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival
Thursday 9/24 @ Various locations
The eclectic MPTF celebrates oddball musical instruments and the musicians who build (or find) and play them. Some of the noise-makers...
Thursday 9/24 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Thursday 9/24 @ 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...
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Thursday 9/24 @ Altman Siegel Gallery
A few swabs of glorious color, a firm line or three, and voila, a magnificent bird or a wide-eyed deer appear...
Thursday 9/24 @ 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...
Global Perspectives: Architecture Summer Studios in Europe and South America Exhibition
Thursday 9/24 @ 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)....
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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
Thursday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Textiles Program Annual Student Exhibition
Thursday 9/24 @ 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...
