Events on Thursday, August 5
Exploratorium After Dark: Nomadic Communities
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Exploratorium
The first theme camp at Burning Man was in 1993. It was called Christmas Camp and featured a decorated tree and...
A Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 5
Thursday 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
Martin was in the final decade of her life when Mary Lance began interviewing her for Agnes Martin. The sole figure...
Ongoing Events
Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant Child
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Jean-Michel Basquiat first appeared on the art scene in the late 1970s when he began spraying the tag SAMO (which stood...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Jack Rebney has been dubbed "the world's angriest RV salesman." In the summer of '88, a group of disgruntled crew members...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ San Francisco Art Exchange
The Beatles to Bowie photography showcase is about rock stars and also the people behind the camera. The show includes rare...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Roxie Theater
Conceptual artist Matthew Barney first learned the word "cremaster" at his sister's wedding. He was talking to his family physician, Dr....
Thursday 8/ 5 @ The Castro Theatre
During Dennis Hopper's career he was mentored by James Dean on the set of Rebel Without a Cause (1955); worked with...
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Various locations
In its 30th year, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival showcases complex perspectives on Jewish identity. One angle: Jews are badass....
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Oakland Museum of California
Pixar Chief Scientist Loren Carpenter is obsessed with zoetropes — the spinning "wheels of life" that were one of the first...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Free Gold Watch
Grady Gordon says: Grady Gordon is originally from Santa Fe, NM. He has a BFA in Illustration from California College of...
Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Fort Mason Center
Wunderkammern, German for wonder rooms, were totally hot during the Renaissance. These collections of bizarre objects and early scientific specimens were...
Dave Eggers: It Is Right to Draw Their Fur and David Byrne: Arboretum
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Electric Works
SF author Dave Eggers and Talking Heads musician David Byrne are buddies. They go on bike rides together in the Marin...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
Thursday 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
Organized in conjunction with New Topographics: Photographs of a...
RitLab: After-Work DIY Art-Making
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Create, Schmooze, Nosh, and Drink with Old Friends and New Inspired by the coast-to-coast D-I-Y craft movement, the CJM presents a...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
SFMOMA Live Art presents Rebecca Solnit
Thursday 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
Solnit's forthcoming book Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Thursday 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape
Thursday 8/ 5 @ SFMOMA
A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition span
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit/Strong Behavior, CounterPULSE Summer Artists in Residence
Thursday 8/ 5 @ CounterPULSE
August 5-8, Thurs.-Sat 8pm, Sunday 3pm
CounterPULSE presents new work from our Summer 2010 Artists in Residence Laura Arrington and Jesse...
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