Events on Saturday, May 26
Bay Area Classic Yo-Yo Contest
Today @ Spreckels Temple of Music
Set against the majestic backdrop of the Spreckels Temple of Music in Golden Gate Park, the Bay Area Classic is a...
Today @ Milk Bar
Don we now our... black lipstick and lace. In honor of the darker side of subculture, World Goth Day returns for...
Ongoing Events
Jenny Chapman and Mark Reigelman
Today @ Hotel des Arts
Jenny Chapman and Mark Reigelman's Manifest Destiny! is a temporary rustic cabin occupying one of the last remaining unclaimed spaces of...
Today @ Angel Island State Park
We Players have been transforming public spaces into venues for participatory theatre for over 10 years, and are now, after a...
Bay Area Photographers Collective
Today @ PHOTO
No other art form requires such precise coming together of chance, perception, and the mechanical means to make a good photograph....
What, Me Worry? 60 Years of MAD
Today @ Cartoon Art Museum
MAD magazine has done so much more than send the morning milk missiling out your now-burning nostrils; in fact, it's even...
Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes
Today @ Oakland Museum of California
Daniel Clowes is a comic-book artist, a screenwriter, and a damn fine man. He won the PEN Literary Prize for Graphic...
Today @ Saigon Sandwich
If anything good came of the French colonial project in Indochina in the first half of the 20th century, banh mi...
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
Today @ de Young Museum
Long before Gaga, there was Gaultier. Since his debut in 1976, Jean Paul has been trotting out S&M-inspired lace masks and...
Today @ Flacos Tacos
From Portlandia's jesting to a certain Cafe's recent controversies, veganism often gets a bad rap — it's dogmatic, elitist, cult-y, or...
Today @ Oakland Museum of California
1968: The year the Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre shook public opinion on the ongoing, endless Vietnam War. The...
Today @ Harrison St btwn 16th and 22nd Sts
Grab your finest feathered tail-piece, some timbales and chains of plastic beads, and get ready to shake your coconuts for Carnaval....
Today @ Gallery Carte Blanche
Featuring photographs by four European women, Carte Blanche’s new exhibition creates an ephemeral world. It explores the spirit of dreams through...
Today @ Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
World Book Night may be right around the corner, but this exhibit is a reminder that books aren't just good for...
Today @ Conservatory of Flowers
How many of us were obsessed, or at least interested, in dinosaurs as kids? Maybe even as adults? There's something about...
Today @ SFMOMA
If one man's trash is another man's treasure, then it's never been more true than in the case of LA-based artist...
Today @ ArtHaus
Remember when cell phone photography involved a steady hand while your Razr snapped its grainy shot? Today's iPhones and retina displays...
Today @ CounterPULSE
Scott Wells' choreography is rooted in over 30 years of personal contact improv experience. Wells has received the Izzie for Outstanding...
Today @ Oakland Museum of California
In 1977, Berkeley Free Speech movement activist Michael Rossman began his collection of posters with progressive messages of protest and change....
Cultural Hybrid: Painting & Drawing
Today @ Cartoon Art Museum
The celebrated creator of Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Cats Are Weird has a new collection of strange and...
Today @ Brown Couch Cafe
A century and a half ago, long transcendental walks were most greatly epitomized by Henry David Thoreau in the woods and...
Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought
Today @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
From the very first chapters of the Torah where one encounters them in the Garden of Eden, to the commandment Bal...
Joshua Redman with Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland: James Farm
Today @ Yoshi's Oakland
Formed in 2009, James Farm is an acoustic jazz quartet consisting of saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman,...
