All events on Sunday July 13

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Music: Global
Rachid Taha
Sunday July 13 (2pm) @ Sigmund Stern Grove
Free
Rachid Taha has been attracting serious attention lately. When Brian Eno heard the French-Algerian rocker's music, he was so intrigued that he joined his band.... View details »
Rachid Taha
More Flavor: Fashion
Stellar
Sunday July 13 (3–11pm) @ Phoenix Hotel
Hosted at the Bambuddha Lounge in the Phoenix Hotel (frequented by many an international rock star), this sizzling pool party features a runway show highlighting... View details »
Stellar
Music: Classical
sfSoundSeries
Sunday July 13 (8pm) @ ODC Dance Commons
sfSoundSeries kicks off its monthly concert run with an adventurous program of contemporary classical works. The influence of Steve Reich's drone-like phase-pattern compositions now extends... View details »
sfSoundSeries

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Art
Dale Chihuly
Sunday July 13 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
Dale Chihuly
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Sunday July 13 (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
Art
Frida Kahlo
Sunday July 13 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
Frida Kahlo
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Sunday July 13 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Art
American Symbols
Sunday July 13 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Art
Half-Life of a Dream
Sunday July 13 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
Half-Life of a Dream
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Sunday July 13 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
Trevor Paglen
More Flavor: Exhibition
Birth of the Cool
Sunday July 13 (noon–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
Film
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Sunday July 13 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
After opening with Harold Lloyd's classic comedy The Kid Brother (1927), the 13th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival packs 11 programs into two long... View details »
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
More Flavor: Festival
Victory Gardens 2008+
Sunday July 13 @ City Hall More times »
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green activist Amy Franceschini joins... View details »
Victory Gardens 2008+
More Flavor: Exhibition
Superstition Obstacle Course
Sunday July 13 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
Superstition Obstacle Course
Art
Women Impressionists
Sunday July 13 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
Women Impressionists
Art: Photography
The Art of Lee Miller
Sunday July 13 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
The Art of Lee Miller
Performing Arts: Theatre
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Sunday July 13 @ Hypnodrome More times »
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
Sunday July 13 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
MOVE>SOUND
Music: Jazz/Blues
Mose Allison
Sunday July 13 (8 & 10pm) @ Yoshi's San Francisco More times »
Giveaway
Mose Allison has lived in New York since 1956, but his smoky piano blues still bear the imprint of the Mississippi country where he came... View details »
Mose Allison
Art
Open for Business
Sunday July 13 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
Open for Business
Art: Photography
Windows on Nature
Sunday July 13 (11am–5pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
Windows on Nature
Film
The Wackness
Sunday July 13 @ Various locations More times »
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
The Wackness
More Flavor: Workshop
Fritz Haeg
Sunday July 13 (11am–3pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Free
It's notable enough when art-addled architects redirect their creative attention to the natural world — think Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, or Andy Goldsworthy's structural... View details »
Fritz Haeg
Art
Jennifer Merrill
Sunday July 13 @ Iceberger Gallery More times »
Free
Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
Jennifer Merrill
Film
Viva
Sunday July 13 (2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30pm) @ Red Vic More times »
It's hard to keep a feature film running on camp alone, so credit Viva's writer, director, and star, Anna Biller, for getting every shag... View details »
Viva
Art
Unlikely Arrivals
Sunday July 13 (noon–5pm) @ 2nd Floor Projects More times »
Free
Curator Margaret Tedesco warms the walls of her Mission-district gallery with abstract color compositions in Unlikely Arrivals, an exhibition featuring a trio of artists whose... View details »
Unlikely Arrivals
More Flavor: Shopping
Renegade Craft Fair
Sunday July 13 (11am–7pm) @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion More times »
Free
Sue Daly was just looking for a way to sell her adorable, nature-inspired jewelry when she decided to organize a fair for fellow DIY vendors.... View details »
Renegade Craft Fair
Film: Documentary
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Sunday July 13 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Art
Room for Thought
Sunday July 13 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
Room for Thought