Events on Wednesday, October 31
Wednesday 10/31 @ Good Vibrations
Who doesn't love toys and costumes on Halloween? Expect lots of sexy nurses (and cops, mechanics, school teachers, bumble bees... you...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
The Pacific Film Archive resuscitates The Last Man on Earth for a Halloween screening sure to induce shivers, and perhaps a...
Wednesday 10/31 @ The Fillmore
Tim Delaughter's massive indie ensemble, the Polyphonic Spree, may have moved from the non-denominational church to the front lines (trading in...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists'...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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'...
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Ratio 3
As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi...
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Known for being a part of the '60s
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Creativity Explored
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories...
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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,...
Wednesday 10/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Galería de la Raza
In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus...
Wednesday 10/31 @ Haines Gallery
Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath,...
