Arts & Entertainment 17th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, Tonight Through Sunday SFMOMA Artist Gallery's epic, four-and-a-half day-long 17th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale starts tonight with a special preview reception, for those wanting a leg up. You'll also have a chance to beat the weekend
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM/MUSIC: Rush tickets are still available for SFIFF's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Stephin Merritt. (So, if you didn't get advance tickets, line up early!) Merritt, of The Magnetic Fields
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In Amicus Monstrum, long-time gallery artists and friends, Scott C. and Nathan Stapley, will showcase paintings that tall tales of charming monsters and friendly mythological figures. 7 to 11 p.m. // Gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Genre-defying C-Mon & Kypski will keep your mind guessing and body moving at The Independent tonight. Check out their MP3, Turn of the Tides. The Frequency, Sweet Snacks, and DJ Mancub open.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The ViceVerse: Communikey + Dis-patch Collaboration Tour presents the Graphisms exhibition opening, featuring work by resident designers Nebojsa Cvetkovic and Marshall Demeranville III. The event will also feature a Pictoplasma screening & Color
Arts & Entertainment Photos: New Banksy Pieces In SF On Thursday, SFist told you about two new graffiti pieces noted British street artist Banksy created on several walls in San Francisco. We now have a third, at least according to Uptown Almanac.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Drift off to exotic, faraway places lost in time, while viewing early travelogues in shimmering black and white, 1950s travel in stunning Kodachrome color, and swinging sixties go-go holidays at Bon Voyage!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WALK: Wear comfortable shoes and gear up to scope out several blocks' worth of art and fashion, live music, and discounted food and libations at the very first Fillmore Art Walk. 6 p.
Arts & Entertainment Two Banksy Pieces Spotted in SF? Local street art aficionados are abuzz today after two Banksy pieces were spotted in San Francisco: one in the Mission, one in Chinatown. Erin Archuleta spotted this fresh piece on Valencia between 19th
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Al Jarnow, whose hypnotic work many might be familiar with from Sesame Street, will be in person at the Red Vic to present his newly released compilation, Celestial Navigations: The Short
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At resonant world, enjoy the experimental work of the late avant-garde composer John Cage performed by various musical groups while perusing an exhibition of "half man, half myth," the late Morris Graves'
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: San Francisco Cinematheque presents the world premiere of Ken Paul Rosenthal's Crooked Beauty, a poetic documentary that explores positive and compassionate models for transforming the experience of madness in our culture, as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Belljar presents Mutatis Mutandis, a series of acrylic paintings on canvas by Scott Greenwalt, in which he seeks to express intimate celebrations of abnormality, imperfection and the bizarre. 6 to 9 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The artists at Creativity Explored explore the concept of maps in Where Are We? The aptly named New Maps of the West will perform. 7 to 9 p.m. // Creativity Explored (3245
Arts & Entertainment Silhouette Artist Karl Johnson at Small Frys on Friday We received a tip from a reader that third-generation silhouette portrait artist Karl Johnson will be creating one-of-a-kind likenesses of local tykes at Small Frys in Noe Valley on Friday from 2 to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Over 20 artists will exhibit work ranging from photography, paintings, sculptures, and collage at Guerrero Gallery's April Group Show. 7 to 11 p.m. // Guerrero Gallery (2700 19th St) // free TALK: Amy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FASHION: Tonight's edition of Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young will include a sneak preview of the upcoming 5th Annual Discarded to Divine event, which showcases this year's designers and their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Film screening Streets of San Francisco: Filmic Journeys will feature experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present, which offer evocative records of individual experiences of San Francisco street
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The group art exhibition, The Anxiety Show, curated by Christine Kristen, explores the uncertainty and free-floating anxiety that are generated by the current economic crisis, global warming, and war. 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: World-renowned Mexican poet and environmentalist Homero Aridjis will read from Solar Poems, his collection of poems that "range from the humorous to the poignant, transcending the boundary between life and death." Lawrence
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Akira's latest exhibition of paintings features pop culture icons such as Walt Whitman, Ice Cube, Chuck Norris, Snoop Dogg, Ayn Rand, Guns n Roses, LeBron James, and Andre the Giant. 7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SF artist Ian Johnson will be exhibiting his latest drawings and paintings in his solo show, Of The Living Sky, featuring "realistic and highly detailed portraits of great jazz musicians, with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Artist Micke Tong by Ben Kasman Ben Kasman spoke with artist Micke Tong about his latest solo show, Ground Control, which opens at Public Barber Salon on Saturday night and runs through May 16. Ground Control
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In Ukrainian Time Machine, American filmmaker Naomi Uman creates a poignant portrait of the people of Legedzine, a small village near the center of Ukraine, conveyed in diary-like format. 8 to 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAILS: The mixologists at Cocktail Lab will re-imagine your favorite drinks of the '80s in a stripped down "ludicrously culinary fashion" at Cocktail Lab 6: 80’s Shades and Switchblades. 10 p.m.
