Events on Tuesday, October 30

Susan Faludi: <i>The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America</i>

Books: Reading

Susan Faludi

Tuesday 10/30 @ First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco

In her thought-provoking The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, local journalist Susan Faludi explores myths surrounding that fateful... 

Hot Hot Heat w/ Bedouin Soundclash and De Novo Dahl

Music

Hot Hot Heat

Tuesday 10/30 @ The Fillmore

Canada's Hot Hot Heat yelped their way onto dance-floor rotations and college-radio playlists in 2002 with Make Up the Breakdown's jumpy,... 

Ongoing Events

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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... 

Derek Boshier: <i>Magazines</i>

Art

Derek Boshier

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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... 

<i>Super Heroes Super Villains</i>

Art

Super Heroes Super Villains

Tuesday 10/30 @ Creativity Explored

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

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Tuesday 10/30 @ SFMOMA

The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... 

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

Art

A Memory of Shadows and Stone

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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... 

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

Art

Recent Works

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Temporal Moving Image

Tuesday 10/30 @ Haines Gallery

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

Driss Ouadahi: <i>Another Place, Another Me</i>

Art

Driss Ouadahi

Tuesday 10/30 @ Hosfelt Gallery

Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss... 

<i>Sweet Sunny Temper</i>

Art

Sweet Sunny Temper

Tuesday 10/30 @ Double Punch Toy Store

  With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... 

<i>The Book Art of Edward Gorey</i>

Art

The Book Art of Edward Gorey

Tuesday 10/30 @ The Book Club of California

When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and... 

Roky Erickson w/ 1990s

Music

Roky Erickson

Tuesday 10/30 @ Great American Music Hall

As a founding member of 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson wasn't shy about experimenting with drugs in the '60s, describing psychedelic... 

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

Art

Dracula

Tuesday 10/30 @ 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... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Tuesday 10/30 @ SFMOMA

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...