All events on Friday May 30

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Art
Karla Wozniak
Thursday June 5 (5:30–7:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly every roadside in America.... View details »
Karla Wozniak
Music: Electronic
Richie Hawtin
Friday May 30 (9pm) @ 103 Harriet St
Little has been heard lately from M_nus, the minimal-techno label set up by Richie "Plastikman" Hawtin in 1998. But the imprint's ten weeks of silence... View details »
Richie Hawtin
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
Friday May 30 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
Based on a true story, The Children of Huang Shi follows a group of orphaned children fleeing war-torn China in the wake of the 1930s... View details »
The Children of Huang Shi
Film: Documentary
Note by Note
Friday May 30 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
An ode to music and craftsmanship, Ben Niles' documentary Note by Note details the painstaking craftsmanship required to produce one Steinway piano, from its... View details »
Note by Note
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Tucker Nichols
Friday May 30 (6–8:30pm) @ de Young Museum
Free
Tucker Nichols' willfully simple notes and crude doodles pose more questions than they answer. Banal shop signs ("Arugula Salad Is Here") or unremarkable words ("Dang")... View details »
Tucker Nichols
More Flavor: Party
Gemini
Friday May 30 (10pm–3am) @ Pink
It may be a slight comedown from last weekend's disco blowout Return to Paradise, but tonight's no-frills dance party is a simple pleasure, with DJs... View details »
Gemini
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Trigger
Friday May 30 (9pm–2am) @ 111 Minna Gallery
The newly revamped 111 Minna (no more muddy sound system!) hosts Trigger, a three-ring circus of a party featuring the work of emerging designers, artwork... View details »
Trigger

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Tim Lee
Friday May 30 (11am–6pm) @ 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
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In Collaboration
Friday May 30 (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: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Friday May 30 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The... View details »
Protest in Paris 1968
Art
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Friday May 30 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Andersen Project
Friday May 30 (8pm) @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
Theatrical visionary Robert Lepage has garnered international acclaim for his imaginative productions and dynamic storytelling. The Andersen Project concerns a Canadian lyricist who moves to... View details »
The Andersen Project
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The Rape of the Sabine Women
Friday May 30 @ 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
Friday May 30 (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
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2nd Skin
Friday May 30 (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
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Art & Artifice
Friday May 30 (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
Friday May 30 (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
Friday May 30 (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
Friday May 30 @ 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
Friday May 30 (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
Friday May 30 (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
Friday May 30 (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
Friday May 30 (11am–6pm) @ 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
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Saskia Leek
Friday May 30 (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
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Gina Borg
Friday May 30 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
Bay Area artist Gina Borg's small works on canvas and paper are a gratifying addition to Jancar Jones' snug new gallery space. Marks and shapes... View details »
Gina Borg
Art
Portals
Friday May 30 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife, Jen Stark carves stacks... View details »
Portals
Art
Lacey Jane Roberts
Friday May 30 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery More times »
Free
Little Tree Gallery has now been fortified, thanks to Bay Area artist Lacey Jane Roberts' handwoven barbed-wire fence. Even though every link of Roberts' formidable... View details »
Lacey Jane Roberts
Art: Photography
Ryan McGinley
Friday May 30 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like jubilant animals, as untrammeled... View details »
Ryan McGinley
Art
American Symbols
Friday May 30 (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
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SF International Arts Festival
Friday May 30 @ 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
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Suzanne Husky
Friday May 30 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
Suzanne Husky
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Sarah Wagner
Friday May 30 (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
Art
Adam5100
Friday May 30 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison More times »
Free
The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his painting and printmaking at... View details »
Adam5100
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Birth of the Cool
Friday May 30 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
Birth of the Cool
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William T. Wiley
Friday May 30 (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
Friday May 30 (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
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Dykes on Bikes®
Friday May 30 (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 »
Art
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Friday May 30 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Group
Friday May 30 @ Climate Theater More times »
From Dale Carnegie to Norman Vincent Peale (who coined the phrase "the power of positive thinking") to the current worldwide success of The Secret, America... View details »
The Group
Art
Feudal Echo
Friday May 30 (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
Improbable\Unlikely
Friday May 30 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery More times »
Free
David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely Library, shelves of books... View details »
Improbable\Unlikely
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Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Friday May 30 (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
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Hopeless and Otherwise
Friday May 30 (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
Art
Recession
Friday May 30 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take on the spiraling global... View details »