Events on Friday, November 23
![[CANCELLED] The Decemberists w/ Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers](http://s3.amazonaws.com/fp-dynamic-assets/attachment_image_files/0000/7633/decemberists_event_home.jpg)
Friday 11/23 @ The Fillmore
Despite a penchant for more-absurdist-than-thou lyrics and off-kilter instrumentation, neo-prog folksters the Decemberists are actually pretty populist — courting landlords' daughters,...
![[SOLD OUT] Band of Horses w/ the Drones](http://s3.amazonaws.com/fp-dynamic-assets/attachment_image_files/0000/3597/music_horses_event_home.jpg)
Friday 11/23 @ The Fillmore
Don't be put off by their songs' placements in Wal-Mart ads — starving musicians gotta eat, you know — Band of...
Friday 11/23 @ Hemlock Tavern
White Magic's new Drag City EP, Dark Stars, further stakes out their idiosyncratic musical terrain: piano-driven ballads that swallow up various...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/23 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Friday 11/23 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Friday 11/23 @ 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
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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...
Friday 11/23 @ 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...
Friday 11/23 @ 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)
Friday 11/23 @ 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...
Friday 11/23 @ Moscone Center
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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
Friday 11/23 @ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ The Independent
Like the Violent Femmes before them, Santa Cruz's the Devil Makes Three infuse their country-bluegrass swing with a raucous punk vein....
Friday 11/23 @ Roxie Theater
In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go /...
Friday 11/23 @ 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
Friday 11/23 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Friday 11/23 @ 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
Friday 11/23 @ 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
Friday 11/23 @ 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...
