Events on Friday, October 19

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Friday 10/19 @ Various locations

Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of... 

Nathan Redwood: <i>Recent Works</i>

Art

Recent Works

Friday 10/19 @ Electric Works

  Nathan Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Friday 10/19 @ SFMOMA

From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential... 

<i>Super Heroes Super Villains</i>

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Super Heroes Super Villains

Friday 10/19 @ Creativity Explored

In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories... 

Derek Boshier: <i>Magazines</i>

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Derek Boshier

Friday 10/19 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts

  Known for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from... 

<i>Pioneers</i>

Art

Pioneers

Friday 10/19 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Friday 10/19 @ de Young Museum

Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as... 

Tony Labat: <i>Bulk</i>

Art

Bulk

Friday 10/19 @ Queen's Nail Annex

Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not... 

Edward Gorey's <i>Dracula</i>

Art

Dracula

Friday 10/19 @ Cartoon Art Museum

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his... 

Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Kota Ezawa: <i>The Temporal Moving Image</i>

Art

The Temporal Moving Image

Friday 10/19 @ Haines Gallery

Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath,... 

<i>Oaxaca: Aqu&#237; No Pasa Nada</i>

Art

Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada

Friday 10/19 @ Galería de la Raza

In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus... 

Rosalind Nashashibi: <i>Bachelor Machines Part I</i>

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Bachelor Machines Part I

Friday 10/19 @ Berkeley Art Museum

For the past few years, London-based artist and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi (winner of a Beck's Futures Award) has received great acclaim... 

<i>A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection</i>

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A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection

Friday 10/19 @ Oakland Museum of California

Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos'... 

Takeshi Murata: <i>Escape Spirit VideoSlime</i>

Art

Takeshi Murata

Friday 10/19 @ Ratio 3

  As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi... 

Will Rogan: <i>A Memory of Shadows and Stone</i>

Art

A Memory of Shadows and Stone

Friday 10/19 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

Westerners tend to impose self-created "exotic" qualities on Asian cultures when faced with interpreting the Far East. Artist Will Rogan avoids...