Events on Monday, November 19

Julie Mehretu

Special Event

Julie Mehretu

Monday 11/19 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Main Campus

It's been a good decade for New York-based, Ethiopian-born Julie Mehretu. Her expansive paintings have garnered her international acclaim and numerous... 

The Passionistas w/ Forever and Tim Cohen (of Black Fiction)

Music

The Passionistas

Monday 11/19 @ Cafe du Nord

This triple-bill installment of Café du Nord's Locals Only Night is strong in its own right — as a free show,... 

Matthew Diffee and Robert Mankoff in conversation with Steven Winn

Special Event

Matthew Diffee and Robert Mankoff

Monday 11/19 @ Herbst Theater

City Arts & Lectures invites Matthew Diffee and Robert Mankoff from the New Yorker's cartoon department to discuss working in... 

Sigur Rós Film: <i>Heima</i>

Film

Heima

Monday 11/19 @ Mezzanine

It's not surprising that Sigur Rós, known for soaring soundscapes that echo the terrain of their Icelandic homeland, should... 

Ongoing Events

<i>after the quake</i>

Theatre

after the quake

Monday 11/19 @ 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... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Monday 11/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Displaced

Monday 11/19 @ John Berggruen Gallery

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Monday 11/19 @ 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... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Monday 11/19 @ SFMOMA

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

<i>Summer '04</i>

Film

Summer '04

Monday 11/19 @ 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).... 

Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Monday 11/19 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Douglas Gordon

Monday 11/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Book Art of Edward Gorey

Monday 11/19 @ 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... 

<i>GROUNDED?</i>

Art

GROUNDED?

Monday 11/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lucy McKenzie

Monday 11/19 @ SFMOMA

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

Rex Ray

Art

Rex Ray

Monday 11/19 @ Gallery 16

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

Charles Chaplin Retrospective

Film

Charles Chaplin Retrospective

Monday 11/19 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

Charlie Chaplin's Tramp is an icon by design, but the bowler hat and mustache only go so far towards describing the... 

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

Art

Recent Works

Monday 11/19 @ 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

Monday 11/19 @ Creativity Explored

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

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

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Monday 11/19 @ 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...