Results tagged “Arts”

This heads-up comes to SFist directly via Johnny Funcheap himself. Seventy-four artists have collaborated to create sixteen site-specific art installations throughout the Tenderloin District (from Geary to Market, Larkin to Mason) in the month-long Wonderland exhibition.

Thee people from the Bay Area, two from Berkeley and one from San Francisco, were named MacArthur fellows last night. The "genius award," one that allows its members to work on their craft full-time, comes with heaps prestige and a whopping $500,000 booty. San Francisco artist Camille Utterback, Berkeley computer nerd Maneesh Agrawala, and Berkeley molecular biologist Lin He were among this year's 24 recipients.

San Francisco photographer Joe Budd is debuting a new collection of photographs from his travels across the world as a commercial photographer, featuring people and landscapes in exotic locales such as Brazil, Thailand, and Africa in En Route.

Muni Metro riders might encounter some extra special entertainment on their commutes tomorrow. The traveling Cut and Run tour will be projecting films on the N, L, and J lines randomly throughout the day, with the accompaniment of Silicon Valley-based band Dusty Organ. If you encounter the show, let us know how it was!

Attention art-lovers with free time on their hands throughout July: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is looking for volunteers for their upcoming Wallworks exhibition to be launched at the end of July. Paintings, wall reliefs, and collages by Makoto Aida, Edgar Arceneaux, Chris Finley, Tillman Kaiser, Odili Donald Odita, Amanda Ross-Ho, Yehudit Sasportas, and Leslie Shows will fill the wall surfaces of YBCA's galleries and public spaces.

DIY, fashion, cheese, and pride -- who could ask for anything more?! Here are just a few events going on this weekend:

We have the annual Carnaval shaking up the Mission District on Saturday and Sunday. The Festival runs both days on Harrison St between 16th & 22nd St from 10 a.m. to 6p.m. The Parade is on Sunday, starting at 9:30 a.m. at 24th & Harrison, going west along 24th St, then turning up Mission all the way to 17th St. Check out the Entertainment Line-up for both days.

FILM: As part of SFMOMA's Robert Frank Retrospective, Program 3 will be a screening of three of Frank's short films. Keep Busy is a spontaneous, improvised story of a group of people living on an island off Nova Scotia, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas, and Home Improvements, which was Frank's first video project, is about the relationship between Frank's life as an artist and his personal life, and how the two are inevitably intertwined.

Today, beat-ish scribe Diane di Prima was named the fifth Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Here she is back in the day reading something she wrote. Di Prima is wearing a lovely white, lace blouse, successfully capturing a natural, casual insouciance we don't see nearly enough of these days. A west coast-Ralph Lauren-stoned on the compound look, if you will. That is to say, she looks stunning.

    

In celebration of Mother's Day on Sunday, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is offering free admission to the opening of their new Rooftop Sculpture Garden. The Rooftop Garden features two open-air spaces and a glass pavilion with views of both the San Francisco skyline and the museum's sculptural works.

The 16th Annual SFMOMA Artists Warehouse Sale at Fort Mason starts tonight with a special preview event for those who want first dibs on the goods.

There are two remaining Live and Onstage events at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.

FRIDAY Tart: A Party for Andy As part of the ongoing Warhol Live exhibition at the deYoung, the Guardian presents a celebration of Warhol's music-influenced work. The event features a live performance by Thee Oh Sees, a special screening of the rare Visions Of Warhol provided by Microcinema DVD, art exhibitions by Amie LeeKing and Jenny Wehrt, and tunes spun by DJ Carolyn Keddy of KUSF.

On Monday at 8PM, renowned musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson will be at City Arts & Lectures "in conversation with" Michael Azerrad. Anderson made a name for herself in the arts scene in New York in the 70s, and rose to international fame in 1980 with the song "O Superman" (a clip of which follows, post-jump). In recent years, she's been performing original works like her adaptation of Moby-Dick and, more recently, Homeland, which combine elements of spoken word, dance and music. She continues to be a prominent force in experimental music, and last year married her longtime companion and fellow musician, Lou Reed.

The eighth person to email us (sfistevents @ gmail.com) with their name and "Every Little Step" in the subject is the winner!

BENEFIT: Attention Cougars! It's the 7th Annual Firefighter Bachelor Auction tonight! Proceeds will benefit the Allison Ann Ruch Burn Foundation. Ladies who win their bids will go on "very luxurious and memorable dates with their bachelors." There will be live entertainment by '80s cover band Pop Rocks.

The always informative Fecal Face has a comprehensive list of all the weekend gallery happenings. Here's a round-up of just a few.

Here's another great heads-up from funcheapSF.com. The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra will be performing free concerts in downtown San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto this weekend.

SF Beta, San Francisco's largest monthly start-up mixer, presents Virgance Equinox at 111 Minna tomorrow night from 5 to 9 p.m. Virgance is a company that seeks to promote world-changing activism campaigns using market-based methods that are profitable, scalable, transparent, and effective.

         

Beginning tomorrow night through May 10 at Oakland's Swarm Gallery, Bay Area artist John Casey's latest series Distant Cousins will be on exhibit. There will be an opening reception tomorrow night, which will coincide with Swarm Gallery's third year anniversary celebration.

Noise Pop 2009 is just around the corner. A few highlights: Anthony & the Johnsons, Goblin Cock, Monument to Masses, A.C. Newman, No Age, Clues, Ryan Auffenberg, Ex-Boyfriends, and Martha Wainwright (Not-Judy's sister). Films will include Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, which documents "the most important day in the career of an American icon, and Agile Mobile Hostile: A Year with Andre Williams.

Because we demand more Piss Christ in our life, take a moment to sign this online petition, if you will, so Barack Obama will create a Secretary of the Arts position.

Artists' Television Access will be celebrating their 25th year of independent and experimental media art on Sunday with their annual fundraiser extravaganza "Banquette Sauvage." The event will feature performances by Conspiracy of Beards, Ash Reiter, Manicato, Los Fulanos, Eats Tapes, Moe! Staiano, The Downer Party, and Grimace and the Fakers, along with various surprise performances throughout the day/night. There will also be a raffle of cool gifts.

by Jeremy Hatch

One of the South Bay's "longest-running cultural institutions," American Musical Theatre of San Jose, is calling it quits. The Broadway musical-ish theater will halt all performances this week and file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

See how sad the man is? Help him find his way back home.

Tonight at The Lab, audience-interactive EnviroSonic kicks off season three of the critically acclaimed Soundwave>Series, a two-month long exploration of sonic art.

What with all of the media attention this summertime concert has received as of late, you would assume Miley Cyrus (the Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton narrative of our time) was booked to "sing" at Golden Gate Park. Alas, she is not.

• Rainbow Skate: As if rollerskating couldn't get any gayer, Redwood Roller Rink has made Wednesday nights exclusive queer. So tonight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and even a smattering of straight folks come together to whirl around the rink. Starts at 8 p.m.; $7 covers both admission and skate rental.
• Benefit for the Metropolitan Arts and Technology's Drama Program: Help the kids won't you? Metropolitan High -- you know, that large school on Treat Street, targeting "communities with the greatest need" -- aim is to send every student to college. And the theater/drama department needs your help. Rock (and, dare we say, emo-sounding) local bands Union Trade, Aim Low Kid, and Audiophase perform for your listening pleasure. Doors open at 8 p.m. at Rickshaw Stop; $10 donation.
• Black, White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007): '70s punk aesthetics are bandied about in this documentary focusing on the relationship between photo collector Sam Wagstaff, notorious photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and Patti Smith. Screens at 6:30 p.m., 8, 9:30 at the Roxie; $5-9.

We will get to hear the microphone between the tits! Anna Netrebko, who kicked off her career in the US here in '96 (in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila) will be back in La Traviata, the SF Opera announced today when unveiling their 2008-09 season. You'll want to see other, um, microphones too, as the darn sexy Angela Gheorghiu, who we were so smitten with in La Rondine, comes back for more Puccini with La Boheme. It's the 150th anniversary of the birth of Puccini this year, so you get two operas by him, Tosca being the other one. That's a bit lame, we say, since you typically get two operas by Puccini in any season. Say, La Rondine and Madama Butterfly, for instance. A true anniversary celebration would be to have all operas by Puccini, or even better, eleven different productions of Butterfly. That would rock.