Events on Friday, July 16
Antibalas w/ the Sway Machinery
Friday 7/16 @ Great American Music Hall
The credentials of 13-piece ensemble Antibalas are strong. Some of their members are also in Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and...
INQUISITION, ALTAR OF PLAGUES, VELNIAS, DISPIRIT
Friday 7/16 @ Elbo Room
Lucifer's Hammer presents "NekroNacht"
An Evening of Black...
3rdrail + Absent Society + Saint Vernon + Falling to Pieces
Friday 7/16 @ Slim's
3rdrail has been delivering sonic head blows for years, gaining a strong following and reputation for their commitment to...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/16 @ The Crucible
Justin Grey is part sculptor, part pyromaniac. He's been fabricating metal for 15 years and his creations have been exhibited at...
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Friday 7/16 @ The Castro Theatre
Fritz Lang's Metropolis came out in 1927 Berlin to little acclaim. It was extremely expensive to make and almost bankrupted the...
Friday 7/16 @ Woody's Cafe
In 1943, Kasper Koojoolian established Kasper's Hot Dogs in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood. His grandson Harry Yaglijian, the third-generation owner of the...
Friday 7/16 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Friday 7/16 @ Robert Berman Gallery/E6
Over the past two years, a series of electric-colored letters have sprouted up around the Mission. With their swirls and flourishes,...
This is the Book I have Written for You
Friday 7/16 @ Park Life
Tucker Nichols is the artist behind anonymouspostcard.org. The site allows users to submit anonymous complaints which Nichols turns into works of...
Final Fantasy w/ the SF Symphony
Friday 7/16 @ Davies Symphony Hall
San Francisco Symphony says: Following last summer's thrilling engagement, Grammy Award-winning conductor Arnie Roth returns to the San Francisco Symphony for...
Friday 7/16 @ Various locations
Fourteen years ago, experimental musician, artist, and Rainbow Grocery store employee Jeff Ray began the Mission Creek Festival out of his...
Friday 7/16 @ Free Gold Watch
Grady Gordon says: Grady Gordon is originally from Santa Fe, NM. He has a BFA in Illustration from California College of...
Friday 7/16 @ 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...
Dave Eggers: It Is Right to Draw Their Fur and David Byrne: Arboretum
Friday 7/16 @ Electric Works
SF author Dave Eggers and Talking Heads musician David Byrne are buddies. They go on bike rides together in the Marin...
Friday 7/16 @ Old Mint Building
Traveling Light, Joe Goode Performance Group's latest production, is aptly titled. The local company doesn't need to bring much with them...
Friday 7/16 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SF-based industrial designer Yves Béhar has designed a waterproof rechargeable vibrator, dog accessories, the XO laptop, and an enormous Swarovski chandelier...
Friday 7/16 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Another Hole in the Head Film Festival
Friday 7/16 @ Roxie Theater
Some movies are measured by the quality of the acting — others, by the quantity of blood. You can treat yourself...
Friday 7/16 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 7/16 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 7/16 @ Roxie Theater
"Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, The...
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
Friday 7/16 @ SFMOMA
This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher...
SFMOMA Live Art presents Rebecca Solnit
Friday 7/16 @ SFMOMA
Solnit's forthcoming book Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Friday 7/16 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Friday 7/16 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Friday 7/16 @ 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...
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Friday 7/16 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Friday 7/16 @ SFMOMA
Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 7/16 @ 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...
Friday 7/16 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
