Events on Thursday, November 22
Thursday 11/22 @ Various locations
Ideally, Thanksgiving should afford everyone the nourishment provided by food, friends, and family. For the homebound elderly who lack the opportunity...
Thursday 11/22 @ 330 Ritch
Once the lentil loaf and the vegan pumpkin pie is all devoured, waddle on down to
Thursday 11/22 @ 1015
Cream of Beat dishes out a heaping helping of musical comfort food at this old-school Thanksgiving throwdown. If the three...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/22 @ Ratio 3
As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Thursday 11/22 @ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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)....
Thursday 11/22 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Thursday 11/22 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Thursday 11/22 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Thursday 11/22 @ 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'...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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'...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ 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)
Thursday 11/22 @ 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...
Thursday 11/22 @ Moscone Center
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual...
