All events on Tuesday May 27

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Music: Rock/Pop
White Rabbits
Tuesday May 27 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Although White Rabbits' debut, Fort Nightly, wriggled onto countless 2007 year-end lists (and with good reason), the sextet's Carribbean-fried Walkmen-isms were born for the stage.... View details »
White Rabbits
Music
[SOLD OUT] Flight of the Conchords
Tuesday May 27 (8pm) @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
Sold Out!
If you consider brushing your teeth part of foreplay, chances are you're familiar with "business time" — the intense two-minute form of lovemaking made famous... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Flight of the Conchords
More Flavor: Discussion
Adam Mansbach
Tuesday May 27 (7:30pm) @ Intersection for the Arts
Adam Mansbach is a white hip-hopper who caused a literary stir with his novel Angry Black White Boy, a sensitive yet audacious exploration of race... View details »
Adam Mansbach
More Flavor: Lecture
Craft Kills
Tuesday May 27 (7pm) @ Oakland Museum of California
Free
As a noun, the word "craft" used to indicate folkloric creations like whittled wood figurines and painted porcelain. These days, the word has become an... View details »
Craft Kills
Music: Electronic
[SOLD OUT] Ladytron
Tuesday May 27 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Sold Out!
The snarls of Bulgarian-born Mira Aroyo tease Helen Marnie's hushed vocals, while their Ladytron bandmates mess about on analog synthesizers. The band's dark, low-end synths... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Ladytron

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Art
Tim Lee
Tuesday May 27 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Tim Lee
Art
In Collaboration
Tuesday May 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
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 »
In Collaboration
Art
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Tuesday May 27 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
Free
One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works constructed from repurposed materials.... View details »
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Art
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Tuesday May 27 @ SFMOMA More times »
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical myth, art history, and... View details »
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Tuesday May 27 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
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 »
The Way That We Rhyme
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Tuesday May 27 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
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 »
2nd Skin
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Tuesday May 27 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice
Art: Photography
After the Revolution
Tuesday May 27 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
After the Revolution
Art
Inkie Whang
Tuesday May 27 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Inkie Whang
Art
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Tuesday May 27 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design More times »
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the 1950s with the verve... View details »
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Art
Quarter Century
Tuesday May 27 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
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 »
Quarter Century
Art: Photography
The Reggae Scrapbook
Tuesday May 27 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
The Reggae Scrapbook
Art
Paul Sietsema
Tuesday May 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
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 »
Paul Sietsema
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Gareth Moore
Tuesday May 27 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Vancouver artist Gareth Moore takes hold of the reins at the Wattis, presenting the ninth solo exhibition in the gallery's ongoing Passengers series. Moore strives... View details »
Gareth Moore
Art
Saskia Leek
Tuesday May 27 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures her imagery around pastel... View details »
Saskia Leek
Art
American Symbols
Tuesday May 27 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
American Symbols
More Flavor: Festival
SF International Arts Festival
Tuesday May 27 @ Various locations More times »
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at venues including the Yerba... View details »
SF International Arts Festival
Art
Sarah Wagner
Tuesday May 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Sarah Wagner
Film
Redbelt
Tuesday May 27 @ Various locations More times »
Redbelt, David Mamet's latest, is an absorbing foray into the world of mixed martial arts. An unconventional fight film, Redbelt centers around the story of... View details »
Redbelt
Art
William T. Wiley
Tuesday May 27 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called... View details »
William T. Wiley
Art
Christian Marclay
Tuesday May 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Christian Marclay
More Flavor: Exhibition
Dykes on Bikes®
Tuesday May 27 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. The GLBT Historical... View details »
Film: Documentary
Dalai Lama Renaissance
Tuesday May 27 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Beloved throughout the world as a symbol of enlightenment and peace, the Dalai Lama has achieved significant acclaim as a world leader. In 1999, seeking... View details »
Dalai Lama Renaissance
Art
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Tuesday May 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets quintessentially American scenes. Brown... View details »
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Film
Mister Lonely
Tuesday May 27 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
Harmony Korine's much-anticipated directorial return finds the former enfant terrible trying a little tenderness. Korine has always been fascinated by bands of outsiders, particularly teenage... View details »
Mister Lonely
Art
Feudal Echo
Tuesday May 27 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life More times »
Free
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days, but painters Alex Lukas... View details »
Feudal Echo
Art
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Tuesday May 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened, skewed architecture, Candy Garden... View details »
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Art
Hopeless and Otherwise
Tuesday May 27 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure More times »
Free
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of unrest in US history... View details »
Hopeless and Otherwise