Events on Saturday, November 24
29th Annual Celebration of Craftswomen
Saturday 11/24 @ 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...
Saturday 11/24 @ 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...
Saturday 11/24 @ Temple-no
DJ Tittsworth has been killing it lately, rocking crowds and earning respect from bloggers (Discobelle) and respected rags (The Wire) alike...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ Roxie Theater
In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go /...
Saturday 11/24 @ Swarm Gallery
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers....
Saturday 11/24 @ 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...
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Saturday 11/24 @ 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...
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Saturday 11/24 @ 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
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ 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....
Saturday 11/24 @ Moscone Center
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual...
Saturday 11/24 @ 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'...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Saturday 11/24 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Saturday 11/24 @ 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 11/24 @ 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...
