Events on Friday, November 16
Friday 11/16 @ Ping Pong Gallery
In two short years, Ping Pong Gallery has covered considerable ground. Its recent, notable exhibitions of Amanda Curreri, Jeff Eisenberg, and...
Music and Videos from the Dump
Friday 11/16 @ Herbst Theatre
Norcal's Artist in Residence Program encourages SF residents to make concerted efforts to conserve the city's natural resources, beyond toting the...
PLAySPACE Gallery Benefit Auction
Friday 11/16 @ California College of the Arts - San Francisco Campus
Located across from the venerable Wattis Institute, PLAySPACE Gallery exhibits emerging and renowned artists, consistently in step with the...
Friday 11/16 @ LoBot Gallery
Xiu Xiu fans, ye of plenty faith, take note: Jamie Stewart is back in town with records in tow. He joins...
Friday 11/16 @ Broadway Studios
To paraphrase Bart Simpson, the holidays are a time when people from all religions get together to worship Jesus Christ. In...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ Root Division
As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations...
Friday 11/16 @ Ratio 3
As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi...
Friday 11/16 @ 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,...
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Friday 11/16 @ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...
3rd I South Asian Film Festival
Friday 11/16 @ Various locations
Now in its fifth year, the 3rd I Film Festival screens new and classic documentaries, narratives, and shorts created by South...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Friday 11/16 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Friday 11/16 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Friday 11/16 @ 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'...
Friday 11/16 @ Roxie Theater
Stefan Krohmer's Summer '04 is a small-scale psychological thriller with an obvious debt to Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water (1962)....
Friday 11/16 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Friday 11/16 @ Various locations
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Friday 11/16 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
For the duration of the gallery's Winter Session, Polk Street's San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery space will serve as the command...
Friday 11/16 @ San Francisco Film Society
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Friday 11/16 @ Creativity Explored
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories...
Friday 11/16 @ 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'...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
