All events on Thursday May 01
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Daniel Mendelsohn
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Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
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Renowned translator and essayist Daniel Mendelsohn visits the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco to discuss his Sisyphean personal history, The Lost. Mendelsohn is hardly... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Nina Nastasia
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Thursday May 1 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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New York singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia gets better with every album. Hushed, introspective folk isn't unique in itself, but Nastasia's careful lyrics and heartfelt ennui puts... View details »
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The Dilettantes
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Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ The Independent
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Brian Jonestown Massacre tambourine player Joel Gion came off as a bit of a clown in Dig!, the 2004 documentary portrait of the band's slow... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Peter Morén
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Thursday May 1 (7pm) @ Swedish American Hall
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As a singer, guitarist, and harmonica player in the Swedish indie-pop group Peter, Bjorn & John, Peter Morén helped propel the trio to club fame... View details »
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Inkie Whang
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Thursday May 1 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the dozen paintings on display... View details »
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Quarter Century
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Thursday May 1 (7–9pm) @ Creativity Explored
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Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
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STRIKE
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Thursday May 1 (7:30pm) @ First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco
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In the spirit of May Day's celebration of labor over greed, more than a dozen notable Bay Area artists, writers, performers, and poets share their... View details »
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Veronica Graham
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Thursday May 1 (3–10pm) @ CELLspace
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Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu. Each individual tile evokes... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
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Poetry for Water
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Thursday May 1 (7pm) @ Cowell Theater
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Roger Housden's most recent book contains a quiet, candid kind of hope. Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again presents poetry as a... View details »
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Sarah Wagner
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Thursday May 1 (5:30–7:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
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Christian Marclay
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Thursday May 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery
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Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Thursday May 1 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
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An-My Lê
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Thursday May 1 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
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Gilbert & George
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Thursday May 1 @ de Young Museum
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Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Friedlander
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Thursday May 1 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
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Enrique Chagoya
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Thursday May 1 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
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Chuck Arnett
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Thursday May 1 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society
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June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
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Annie Leibovitz
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Thursday May 1 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
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In Collaboration
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Thursday May 1 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
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Drama and Desire
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Thursday May 1 (10am–9pm) @ Asian Art Museum
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On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
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Victor Cartagena
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Thursday May 1 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza
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Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
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How I Learned to...
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Thursday May 1 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts
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It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's blueprints, though it's hard... View details »
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Propogations
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Thursday May 1 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to mind. Hayes' organic, abstract... View details »
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The Question Is Known
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Thursday May 1 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the work of mixed-media painter... View details »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Thursday May 1 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
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2nd Skin
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Thursday May 1 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
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With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
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After the Revolution
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Thursday May 1 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
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Robert Adler
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Thursday May 1 (3–9pm) @ Hyde Street Gallery
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Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses on the grit behind... View details »
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Self-Storage
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Thursday May 1 (noon–4pm) @ Self Storage
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Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic scrapbook that documents the... View details »
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Jellyfish
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Thursday May 1 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
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Paul Sietsema
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Thursday May 1 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
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Greg Lamarche
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Thursday May 1 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery
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Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a graffiti artist in Boston... View details »
