Events on Thursday, September 9
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Herbst Theater
Can't decide whether to renew your old school magazine subscriptions or go digital with an iPad or Kindle? Relax, there's a...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Candystore Collective
Check out the stop-motion film the authors created for the book. It's filmed by Thayer Allyson Gowdy and features music by...
Explore Ecosexuality! w/ Annie Sprinkle
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Good Vibrations
In May 2008, legendary porn star Annie Sprinkle and her partner Beth Stephens got married in Santa Cruz. But not to...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ The New Parish
The Clientele formed a long time ago in the backwoods of suburban Hampshire, playing together as kids at school, rehearsing in...
Forrest Day + The Shotgun Wedding Quintet + Fishbear - Hosted by Soulati of Felonious
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Slim's
One of the dominating names in the San Francisco Bay Area live music scene, Forrest Day and his seven piece band,...
William Gibson Delivers Zero History
Thursday 9/ 9 @ The Booksmith
Since his 1984 debut novel Neuromancer, in which he coined the term “cyberspace” and envisioned the Internet before it was a...
Curator Talks: Julie Chalres on Chuck Close's "Agnes"
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Shotwell 50 Studios
Over the last 50 years, Mattel has produced an incredible variety of Barbie dolls, including astronauts, doctors, TV chefs, presidents, and...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Various locations
Attending the SF Fringe Festival is a bit of a crapshoot by design: coveted performance slots are awarded by chance via...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
Irish fine artist Eamon O'Kane is obsessed with modernist architecture. In his 2008 painting Lloyd Wright Dreaming he depicted the interior of...
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Roxie Theater
You may have heard about the upcoming Allen Ginsberg biopic Howl, starring Hollywood heavyweights like James Franco, Jeff Daniels, and Jon...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
In the late '80s, Stanley Donwood hitchhiked around England, busking a fire-breathing act. He stopped off at Oxford to visit his...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Z Space
The character of Olive Kitteridge came to Elizabeth Strout as a mental snapshot of a woman standing by a picnic table...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Various locations
SFEMF Eleven consists of three evenings of stimulating performances by internationally recognized artists and musicians in the electronic music field. -SF...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Roxie Theater
In the late '60s, before glitter rock, there was San Francisco's LSD-inspired gender-riot performance group the Cockettes, who ransacked the city...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ Heart
200 Yards says: 200 yards is a photography experiment conceived of and presented by Lightbox SF. Local photographers explore a 200...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Oakland Museum of California
Pixar Chief Scientist Loren Carpenter is obsessed with zoetropes — the spinning "wheels of life" that were one of the first...
Koret Center Screening: American Art in the 1960's
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Organized in conjunction with New Topographics: Photographs of a...
Koret Center Screening: Art: 21: Art in the 21st Century: Ecology
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a 1946...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition spanArt
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not...
