Events on Saturday, August 7
Mission Arts Performance Project
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Various locations
Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP), is a bi-monthly collaborative art-performance happening that has the feeling of a secret treasure hunt. Participants...
Stones Throw x Fools Gold Discotheque
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Kellys Mission Rock
Alain Macklovitch, aka A-Trak, has accomplished a lot in just 28 years on the planet. After establishing himself as a teenage...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Mission Dolores Park
John Hughes was the king of teen movies. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) is still one of his most popular flicks,...
We Are Scientists w/ Rewards (Aaron Pfenning ex-Chairlift)
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Slim's
We Are Scientists, hard at work (and play) in the UK for most of this year, will release their fourth and...
Ongoing Events
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Various locations
In its 30th year, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival showcases complex perspectives on Jewish identity. One angle: Jews are badass....
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant Child
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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,...
Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Fort Mason Center
Wunderkammern, German for wonder rooms, were totally hot during the Renaissance. These collections of bizarre objects and early scientific specimens were...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Oakland Museum of California
Pixar Chief Scientist Loren Carpenter is obsessed with zoetropes — the spinning "wheels of life" that were one of the first...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Red Vic
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film about Thierry Guetta, a graffiti stalker who chronicled Shepard Fairey and other key...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Free Gold Watch
Grady Gordon says: Grady Gordon is originally from Santa Fe, NM. He has a BFA in Illustration from California College of...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Dave Eggers: It Is Right to Draw Their Fur and David Byrne: Arboretum
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Electric Works
SF author Dave Eggers and Talking Heads musician David Byrne are buddies. They go on bike rides together in the Marin...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Roxie Theater
Conceptual artist Matthew Barney first learned the word "cremaster" at his sister's wedding. He was talking to his family physician, Dr....
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Roxie Theater
Orson Welles. Ridley Scott. Akira Kurosawa. ...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit/Strong Behavior, CounterPULSE Summer Artists in Residence
Saturday 8/ 7 @ CounterPULSE
August 5-8, Thurs.-Sat 8pm, Sunday 3pm
CounterPULSE presents new work from our Summer 2010 Artists in Residence Laura Arrington and Jesse...
SFMOMA Live Art presents Rebecca Solnit
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Solnit's forthcoming book Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas...
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Organized in conjunction with New Topographics: Photographs of a...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
7 Walkers feat. Bill Kreutzmann and Papa Mali w/ George Porter, Jr.
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Great American Music Hall
Grateful Dead timekeeper Bill Kreutzmann and Crescent City funkster Papa Mali, along with Matt Hubbard and Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green),...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a 1946...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape
Saturday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition span
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