Events on Thursday, April 1
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Rickshaw Stop
Represent Oak-town! Zion I, aka MC Zumbi and DJ Amp Live, are bringing their West-coast, socially-conscious hip-hop to the Rickshaw Stop....
Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 111 Minna Gallery
Last Gasp's printing presses have churned out comics by R.Crumb, art books by Mark Ryden, female genitalia coloring books, and even...
Saint Misbehavin: The Wavy Gravy Movie
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Grand Lake Theater
A typical Wavy Gravy outfit consists of a red nose, tie-dyed false teeth, and size 17 shoes. He adopted the clown...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Asian Art Museum
Special guest Coco Zhao ("the boy Billie Holiday") will perform an intimate set of original works and old favorites. With a...
FILM SERIES- 75 Years in the Dark: A Partial History of Film at SFMOMA, Part 2
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Phyllis Wattis Theater
75 Years in the Dark: Poetry Meets Politics – The Essay
Thursday 4/ 1 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (map) curated & introduced by Irina Leimbacher presented in collaboration with the...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Reception at Tosca Cafe (map) presented in collaboration with Jeanette Etheredge A special reception with guests Stanton Kaye and Jim McBride,...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Sarah Roberts (associate curator of collections and research) on Elmer Bischoff’s Untitled
Ongoing Events
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City....
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 18 Reasons
Scratch 'n' sniff usually gets relegated to Lisa Frank novelties, but To Curry Favor, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's latest exhibit at the...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ CounterPULSE
José Navarette doesn't just want his audience to groove, he wants them to move too — to take action against the...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
From George Washington's cherry tree chop to the sale of Manhattan for a pocketful of beads, American history is full of...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ New Conservatory Theatre
The Sugar Witch mashes-up myth, Southern Gothic, and same-sex romance. Annabelle, the protagonist witch's magic power is storytelling. With it, she...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Various locations
SFMOMA isn't the only cultural institution in town celebrating a milestone this year. In honor of its 40th anniversary the city-run...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Creativity Explored
Hold that tiger! Creativity Explored's new exhibit, inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year's regal symbol, has plenty of tigers burning...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and...
