Events on Saturday, November 17
26th Beaujolais and Beyond Festival
Saturday 11/17 @ Hyatt Regency
The third Thursday of November marks the release of this year's beaujolais nouveau, the world's lightest and youngest red wine. The...
Saturday 11/17 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
The author of some 30-odd albums, Brazilian rock star Caetano Veloso has hardly given an inch since he first emerged as...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Saturday 11/17 @ 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'...
Saturday 11/17 @ Creativity Explored
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories...
Saturday 11/17 @ Root Division
As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations...
Saturday 11/17 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Saturday 11/17 @ 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
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
3rd I South Asian Film Festival
Saturday 11/17 @ Various locations
Now in its fifth year, the 3rd I Film Festival screens new and classic documentaries, narratives, and shorts created by South...
Saturday 11/17 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Saturday 11/17 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Saturday 11/17 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Saturday 11/17 @ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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)....
Saturday 11/17 @ 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'...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Saturday 11/17 @ San Francisco Film Society
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is...
Saturday 11/17 @ Ratio 3
As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday 11/17 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just...
Saturday 11/17 @ Various locations
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more...
