Events on Saturday, November 24

Temple Presents: Bass Session vs Kleavage feat. Tittsworth
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Music: DJ
Tittsworth
@ Temple
DJ Tittsworth has been killing it lately, rocking crowds and earning respect from bloggers (Discobelle) and respected rags (The Wire) alike...  View details »
29th Annual Celebration of Craftswomen
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
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29th Annual Celebration of Craftswomen
@ Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
For 30 years running, the Women's Building Celebration of Craftswomen has celebrated the stunning handwork of America's craftiest creatives. The two-weekend...  View details »
Busdriver w/ Daedalus and Antimc
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Music: Hip-Hop
Busdriver
@ Great American Music Hall
To say that Regan Farquhar has hip-hop in his blood wouldn't be far off — his dad is, after all, the...  View details »
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Lucy McKenzie: <I>New Work</I>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Lucy McKenzie
@ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...  View details »
Ongoing
Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
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Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
@ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco...  View details »
Ongoing
The Devil Makes Three w/ Or, The Whale and Emily Jane White
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Music: Rock/Pop
The Devil Makes Three
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Jamie Vasta: <i>Musn't</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Jamie Vasta
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Van Arno: <I>Volume</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Van Arno
@ The Shooting Gallery
LA-based painter Van Arno survived early fame in the Juxtapoz school of lowbrow art, and come out the other side a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jonathan Callan, Frank Ebert, Armando Miguelez, Julio Cesar Morales, and Gabrielle Teschner: <i>Displaced</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Displaced
@ John Berggruen Gallery
Ongoing
Free
Driss Ouadahi: <i>Another Place, Another Me</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Driss Ouadahi
@ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
San Francisco International Auto Show
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
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San Francisco Int'l Auto Show
@ Moscone Center
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual...  View details »
Ongoing
Forrest Williams: <i>Porches</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Forrest Williams
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Edward Gorey's <i>Dracula</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Dracula
@ Cartoon Art Museum
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his...  View details »
Ongoing
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
Film
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
"The There, There"
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
Art
"The There, There"
@ Esteban Sabar Gallery
  Although Gertrude Stein's quip that in Oakland, "there was no there, there," is nearly a century old, the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jeff Wall
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
@ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...  View details »
Ongoing
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
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Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
@ 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'...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
@ 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'...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
R.K.O. Lost & Found
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
Film
R.K.O. Lost & Found
@ Roxie Theater
In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go /...  View details »
Ongoing
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<i>Nothing Moments</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Nothing Moments
@ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Douglas Gordon
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
San Francisco Jazz Festival
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
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SF Jazz Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Rex Ray
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Rex Ray
@ Gallery 16
An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among San Francisco's most prolific artists and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>after the quake</i>
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
Performing Arts: Theatre
after the quake
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Tony Labat: <i>Bulk</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Bulk
@ Queen's Nail Annex
Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
@ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>The Little Show</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
The Little Show
@ Swarm Gallery
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Takeshi Murata: <i>Escape Spirit VideoSlime</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Takeshi Murata
@ Ratio 3
  As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alyson Belcher: <i>Body of Light</i>
Month_11 Saturday Day_24
Art
Alyson Belcher
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>GROUNDED?</i>
Month_11 Sunday Day_25
Art
GROUNDED?
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing