From a fabled punk band to a trashy artwork exhibit, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this weekend and past.
Right here’s a partial rundown.
Black Flag again in NorCal
The Black Flag lineup has modified fairly a bit over the many years.
Most notably, it not consists of some of the iconic singers in punk rock historical past — the mighty Henry Rollins, who many readers finest know lately for his movie and tv work in addition to for his spoken-word performances.
The band additionally not consists of Keith Morris, one other extremely iconic punk vocalist. But, the guts and soul of this Hermosa Seashore hardcore outfit has all the time been guitarist-songwriter-founder Greg Ginn. And so long as he’s nonetheless within the band then Black Flag will most definitely be value seeing in live performance.
Ginn and firm underscored that time throughout the terrific Black Flag efficiency on the Punk within the Park pageant in Daly Metropolis final Could. The entire quartet — together with vocalist Mike Vallely — sounded terrific because it ran via such cool cuts as “Can’t Decide,” “Rise Above” and a canopy of “Louie Louie.” However it was the prospect to witness Ginn do his unbelievable factor on guitar that actually made the Black Flag set so particular.
Followers can have the prospect to witness loads of Ginn greatness when Black Flag performs a number of NorCal reveals in January.
Particulars: 7 p.m. Jan. 11 on the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Constructing, Santa Cruz; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12 at Brentwood Emporium; 8 p.m. Jan. 15 at Mystic Theatre, Petaluma; tickets begin at $28.53; blackflagband.com.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Trash turns into artwork in exhibit
Some individuals, notably tech CEOs and out-of-state politicians, prefer to complain about how soiled San Francisco is. Others embrace the trashiness — actually, within the case of a gritty new exhibit on the metropolis’s MAG Galleries.
“Art and Fashion in the Garbage Age” assembles latest work from the Piles Collective, a bunch of artists who repurpose rubbish and up-cycled supplies sourced proper right here from native streets and trash piles. “We live in an age when garbage threatens our way of life,” they declare. “Countering the problems that generate the garbage is a momentous task, but also significant is the creative desire to find the detritus as a source of artistic possibilities.”
The multimedia extravaganza presents images and sculptures of city particles, in addition to furnishings design, jewellery, and stylish clothes constituted of discarded (and hopefully washed) textiles and even a bunch of trashy zines. Present up on Jan. 25 and also you’re in for a deal with — a runway present on the gallery that includes fashions in rubbish-based clothes.
Particulars: Present runs via Feb. 2; MAG Galleries, 3931 18th St., San Francisco; hours are noon-7 p.m. Thursday-Friday and noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; mag-galleries.com.
— John Metcalfe, Workers
Sherald’s timeless works at SFMOMA
Practically 50 work by Amy Sherald, well-known for her realist portraits of Black topics, are on view on the San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork within the artist’s first mid-career survey. “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” options work constituted of 2007 to 2024, together with iconic portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, not often seen items and new works created for the exhibition.
Sherald, a Georgia native residing in New Jersey, has a mode following within the custom of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. Her portraits are grounded by Nineteenth-century studio images, reflecting the period’s formal, frontal presentation of figures, single-source lighting and flat backgrounds that depart few indications of time, location or context. Nonetheless, Sherald’s work are up to date and prescient.
An exhibition spotlight is 2022’s “For Love, and for Country,” which was impressed by the well-known 1945 {photograph} depicting a sailor kissing a lady suspended in a back-bending posture. Sherald’s reimagined portrayal of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s “V-J-Day in Times Square” is a 10-foot-tall portray with two Black males engaged in an embrace.
Particulars: Via March 9; San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork, San Francisco; $23-$30; sfmoma.org.
Rachmaninoff is in the home
Hershey Felder took an uncommon path to his function as a performer recognized for spotlighting a few of the world’s best composers. The Canada native labored for a time in Los Angeles with the Steven Spielberg Shoah Basis interviewing Holocaust survivors as a part of a drive to file their private histories. A short while later, he attended the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, when he met a survivor of the Polish demise camp, who recounted that he was ordered by the guards to whistle Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” This impressed Felder to jot down a musical about Holocaust survivors that included Gershwin’s music, which in flip acquired him immersed in Gershwin and his music. By 1999, after interviewing a number of members of the composer’s household, Felder had created a solo stage present titled “George Gershwin Alone.”
1 / 4 century later, Felder has carried out all over the world in a sequence of solo reveals specializing in the music and lives of legendary classical composers. This week, he brings his twelfth and reportedly remaining present within the sequence to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the place he has staged a number of productions.. “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar” facilities on the famed Russian composer (1873-1943) who was equally generally known as a virtuosic pianist. The manufacturing – with Felder enjoying the composer and performing a few of his best-known music on piano – takes place after Rachmaninoff had relocated to Beverly Hills and was in failing well being, and finds the good musician practically obsessive about the reminiscence of a tragic encounter with Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsar’s daughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. In contrast to Felder’s earlier reveals, this one incorporates a second actor (Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II) however in any other case consists of what Felder followers have come to revere – nice music and musical storytelling.
Particulars: Jan. 10 via Feb. 9 on the Mountain View Heart for the Arts; $34-$115; theatreworks.org.
A folks legend weighs in
One of many many pop cultural developments of the Nineteen Seventies was the appearance of so-called “women’s music,” a model of people created by feminist and/or lesbian artists who felt missed by the mainstream file enterprise. Artists included Meg Christian, Margie Adam, Holly Close to, Linda Tillery and Cris Williamson, whose works addressed not simply LGBTQ and feminist points however all kinds of social and anti-war themes. Of those artists, Williamson made one of many greatest splashes 50 years in the past with the discharge of the album “The Changer and the Changed,” which went on to grow to be one of many style’s best-selling albums in addition to one in all best-selling unbiased file releases of all time. The truth that it was launched on a small, unbiased label – Olivia Data – and options an all-female manufacturing and musical employees additionally helped cement the album’s place in historical past. Williamson is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the album on a tour that stops on the Freight & Salvage Espresso Home in Berkeley for 2 reveals this weekend. However the folks icon gained’t simply be trying backward. Williamson will even highlight her newest album, “Ravens and the Roses,” which got here out final month. She has greater than 30 studio and stay albums to her credit score, in the event you’re preserving rating at house.
Particulars: Williamson performs at 7 p.m. Jan. 11 and a pair of p.m. Jan. 12; $54-$79; thefreight.org.
Enjoying dress-up
Today, drag performers are just about safely ensconced within the American mainstream – until, in fact, they’re doing one thing horrifying like instructing faculty children tips on how to learn. However as soon as upon a time in America, the entire idea gave some individuals the heebie-jeebies. It didn’t even matter if the blokes doing the cross-dressing had been red-blooded males who had been simply disguising themselves to keep away from getting eviscerated by the mob.
We’re speaking, in fact, in regards to the story line from the 1959 basic movie comedy “Some Like it Hot,” directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis. Though Lemon and Curtis’ cross-dressing was performed for laughs, and regardless that the movie was a business and significant success from the beginning (it acquired six Oscar nominations), it was denied approval on the time by the Movement Image Manufacturing Code, a set of Hollywood ethical tips that had been established in 1934. The code was enacted after a number of scandals had stained Hollywood’s fame, however by the late Nineteen Fifties, increasingly more filmmakers had begun to defy it. In 1968, the code was changed by the Movement Image Affiliation of America’s movie ranking system. It needs to be famous that “Some Like it Hot” was primarily a remake of a 1935 French movie “Fanfare of Love,” which had already been remade, in Germany in 1951, as “Fanfares of Love.” Neither of these movies generated a lot controversy.
Now comes “Some Like it Hot,” the stage musical that, so far as we will inform, has not generated wherever close to the type of feverish hand-wringing as Drag Queen Story Hour. The place you stand on all this, in fact, will little question affect whether or not you select to see the 2019 musical with music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (the duo behind “Hairspray”) and a ebook by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin. The present debuted on Broadway in 2022 and gained 4 Tony Awards, together with for its choreography and costumes. Now a nationwide touring manufacturing has stopped at Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, the place it should play via Jan. 26.
Particulars: Tickets begin at $55.50; www.broadwaysf.com.
A welcome return at SF Symphony
James Gaffigan, former affiliate conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, is again in Davies Corridor this weekend as a visitor conductor, main the orchestra in an intriguing program of music by Missy Mazzoli, Samuel Barber and Sergei Prokofiev. Gaffigan, who’s now the music director at each the Berlin Comedian Opera and the Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts in Valencia, Spain, will open the live performance with SFS’ first efficiency of American composer Mazzoli’s “Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres”), which has been described as “a cosmic hurdy gurdy, flung into space” and options the bassoon, French horn, trumpet and trombone doubling on harmonicas.
Subsequent up is the Barber Violin Concerto, the one one he ever wrote, showcasing the prodigious skills of Raymond Chen, a primary prizewinner of each the Yehudi Menuhin and the Queen Elisabeth competitions who performs a Stradivarius instrument as soon as owned by the good Jascha Heifetz. Gaffigan brings the live performance to an in depth with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, thought-about by most to be his best, written close to the top of WWII when American and Russian cooperation was at its peak and an enormous hit on each side of the Atlantic. Time journal as soon as described it as “a great, brassy creation with some of the intricate efficiency and dynamic energy of a Soviet power plant and some of the pastoral lyricism of a Chekhov countryside.”
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Jan. Sept. 11; $49-$199; sfsymphony.org.
Initially Printed: January 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM PST
