Events on Saturday, November 10

Yerba Buena Arts and Culture Free 4-All

Art

Free 4-All

Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations

Eastern SoMa is quickly evolving into SF's de facto museum district, anchored by the relatively established Yerba Buena Center and SFMOMA... 

Video Makes the Radio Star

Music

Video Makes the Radio Star

Saturday 11/10 @ Mezzanine

Combining YouTube's distribution democracy with an American Idol-borne obsession with reality-show sportsmanship, Mezzanine's music-video competition enlists the aid of indie-centric Owl... 

Lydia Lunch and Arthur Nersesian

Books: Reading

Lydia Lunch

Saturday 11/10 @ Moe's Books

In his definitive study of post-punk, Rip It Up and Start Again, rock critic Simon Reynolds aptly describes punk goddess Lydia... 

The Swearing Festival II

Festival: Performing Arts

Swearing Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Edinburgh Castle Pub

Back for its second annual celebration of raunchy words, the Swearing Festival has a little something for everyone, from scatological etymologists... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Dracula

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

<i>after the quake</i>

Theatre

after the quake

Saturday 11/10 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Saturday 11/10 @ SFMOMA

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

Jonathan Callan, Frank Ebert, Armando Miguelez, Julio Cesar Morales, and Gabrielle Teschner: <i>Displaced</i>

Art

Displaced

Saturday 11/10 @ John Berggruen Gallery

Van Arno: <I>Volume</i>

Art

Van Arno

Saturday 11/10 @ The Shooting Gallery

LA-based painter Van Arno survived early fame in the Juxtapoz school of lowbrow art, and come out the other side a... 

11th International Latino Film Festival

Film

Int'l Latino Film Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations

With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more... 

Forrest Williams: <i>Porches</i>

Art

Forrest Williams

Saturday 11/10 @ Marx & Zavattero

In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor... 

JTAF 5

Festival: Fair

JTAF 5

Saturday 11/10 @ Fort Mason Center

Drawing over 1,200 people from all over the Bay Area and beyond, JTAF 5 promises anything but an average day in... 

<i>Sweet Sunny Temper</i>

Art

Sweet Sunny Temper

Saturday 11/10 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Recent Works

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

<i>Super Heroes Super Villains</i>

Art

Super Heroes Super Villains

Saturday 11/10 @ Creativity Explored

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

<i>Blame It on Fidel!</i>

Film

Blame It on Fidel!

Saturday 11/10 @ Roxie Theater

Julie Gravas' debut feature works best as a bottom-up portrait of the confused, morally high-strung reality of living leftist in the... 

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Saturday 11/10 @ 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'... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

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

Art

Douglas Gordon

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations

San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco... 

Rex Ray

Art

Rex Ray

Saturday 11/10 @ Gallery 16

An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among San Francisco's most prolific artists and... 

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

Art

A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection

Saturday 11/10 @ 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'... 

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

Art

Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada

Saturday 11/10 @ Galería de la Raza

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

The X-Ray Project: <i>Inside Terrorism</i>

Art

Inside Terrorism

Saturday 11/10 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak... 

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

Art

Takeshi Murata

Saturday 11/10 @ Ratio 3

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

<i>Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten</i>

Film: Documentary

The Future Is Unwritten

Saturday 11/10 @ Lumiere Theatre

Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce... 

<i>Pioneers</i>

Art

Pioneers

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

Jamie Vasta: <i>Musn't</i>

Art

Jamie Vasta

Saturday 11/10 @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based... 

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

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

Derek Boshier: <i>Magazines</i>

Art

Derek Boshier

Saturday 11/10 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts

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

Second San Francisco International Animation Festival

Film

Int'l Animation Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema

D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski's feature animation, Film Noir, is a prototypical hard-boiled thriller, with not-so-good good guys, truly bad... 

Alyson Belcher: <i>Body of Light</i>

Art

Alyson Belcher

Saturday 11/10 @ Robert Tat Gallery

Best classified as falling between 19th-century spirit photography and Edward Muybridge's motion studies, Alyson Belcher's spectral self-portraits add a graceful and... 

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

Lucy McKenzie: <I>New Work</I>

Art

Lucy McKenzie

Saturday 11/10 @ SFMOMA

Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At... 

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

Art

The Temporal Moving Image

Saturday 11/10 @ Haines Gallery

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

Tony Labat: <i>Bulk</i>

Art

Bulk

Saturday 11/10 @ 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... 

<I>The Gun Show</I>

Art

The Gun Show

Saturday 11/10 @ Root Division

As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations... 

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

Art

Driss Ouadahi

Saturday 11/10 @ Hosfelt Gallery

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

<i>GROUNDED?</i>

Art

GROUNDED?

Saturday 11/10 @ Intersection for the Arts

In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with...