All events on Friday May 09

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Film
The Memory Thief
Friday May 9 @ Red Vic More times »
The identity of every modern Jew is in some way built upon the memory of the Holocaust. As the generation of Holocaust survivors fades away,... View details »
The Memory Thief
Film
Contempt 
Friday May 9 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Jean-Luc Godard's 45-year-old masterpiece Contempt is still a conundrum. Coming off a run of shoestring gems, the French New Wave icon suddenly had a big... View details »
Contempt 
Art
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Friday May 9 @ 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
Music: Electronic
The Glitch Mob
Friday May 9 (9pm) @ Club Mighty
The Glitch Mob's productions unearth the secret family tree that links early Timbaland, the laser-guided bass of Ghislain Poirier, Autechre's chop-shop take on electro, and... View details »
The Glitch Mob
Art
Gina Borg
Friday May 9 (5–8pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Opening
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: Photography
Ryan McGinley
Friday May 9 (6–8pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Opening
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 9 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
Northern State
Friday May 9 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Giveaway
Tonight's all-lady lineup features some of the best emerging talent from both coasts. NYC's Northern State have drawn comparison to the Beastie Boys (and their... View details »
Northern State
Film
Redbelt
Friday May 9 @ 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
Performing Arts: Opera
Queenie Pie
Friday May 9 (8pm) @ Oakland Metro More times »
Queenie Pie, jazz giant Duke Ellington's final large-scale work, receives the royal treatment from the Oakland Opera Theater. Ellington's muse was Madame C.J. Walker, the... View details »
Queenie Pie
Art
Feudal Echo
Friday May 9 (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

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Art
Tim Lee
Friday May 9 (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
Art
Gilbert & George
Friday May 9 @ de Young Museum More times »
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 »
Gilbert & George
Art: Photography
Friedlander
Friday May 9 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
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 »
Friedlander
Art
Enrique Chagoya
Friday May 9 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
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 »
Enrique Chagoya
Art: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Friday May 9 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
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 »
Annie Leibovitz
Art
In Collaboration
Friday May 9 (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
Victor Cartagena
Friday May 9 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
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 »
Victor Cartagena
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Friday May 9 (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 9 (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
How I Learned to...
Friday May 9 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Free
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 »
How I Learned to...
Performing Arts: Opera
The Little Prince
Friday May 9 (7:30pm) @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
A worldwide symbol of youthful optimism, The Little Prince — set to music for the San Francisco Opear by British composer Rachel Portman — unearths... View details »
The Little Prince
Art
The Question Is Known
Friday May 9 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts More times »
Free
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 »
The Question Is Known
Art
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Friday May 9 @ 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 9 (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
Friday May 9 (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
Friday May 9 (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: Architecture/Design
COLORS Past and Present
Friday May 9 (9am–5pm) @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura More times »
Free
In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a bold, controversial publication that... View details »
COLORS Past and Present
Art: Photography
After the Revolution
Friday May 9 (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 9 (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
Quarter Century
Friday May 9 (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
Robert Adler
Friday May 9 (3–9pm) @ Hyde Street Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Robert Adler
Art
Self-Storage
Friday May 9 (noon–4pm) @ Self Storage More times »
Free
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 »
Self-Storage
Film
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Friday May 9 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is Russian director Sergei Parajanov's eccentric take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a Carpathian village, the film tracks... View details »
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Art
Veronica Graham
Friday May 9 (3–10pm) @ CELLspace More times »
Free
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 »
Veronica Graham
Art
Paul Sietsema
Friday May 9 (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
Art
Gareth Moore
Friday May 9 (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
Art
Lacey Jane Roberts
Friday May 9 (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
Film: Documentary
The Dhamma Brothers
Friday May 9 @ Red Vic More times »
It's difficult to imagine a Buddhist meditation retreat in a maximum-security prison, but at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama, that's exactly what has... View details »
The Dhamma Brothers
Art
Uncharted
Friday May 9 (6–8pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery More times »
Free
Like intrepid cartographers, the nine artists featured in this exhibit navigate land and space from many angles. Their interpretations range in style and media, from... View details »
Uncharted
Film
Graduation
Friday May 9 @ Landmark Opera Plaza More times »
Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank heist of Dog... View details »
Graduation
Art
Sarah Wagner
Friday May 9 (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
Music: Hip-Hop
Atmosphere
Friday May 9 (8pm) @ The Grand Ballroom More times »
Minneapolis' veteran duo Atmosphere (aka Slug and Ant, the backpacker's Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff) draw a die-hard crowd of indie hip-hop heads obsessed with... View details »
Atmosphere
Art
Christian Marclay
Friday May 9 (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