Events on Thursday, November 29
Thursday 11/29 @ Herbst Theater
Eric Schlosser made a name for himself with Fast Food Nation, the best-selling critique of
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/29 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Thursday 11/29 @ Space Gallery
Other than Halloween, few occasions inspire thoughts of the undead like the holiday season — which may explain why Space Gallery...
Thursday 11/29 @ Rena Bransten Gallery
Despite the obvious differences in their work, Ruth Asawa's fabric sculptures inspire comparisons with the late Georgia O'Keefe. Both evoke the...
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Thursday 11/29 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Thursday 11/29 @ 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...
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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...
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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...
Thursday 11/29 @ Sculpturesite Gallery
Big-ticket American art sometimes seems to come in one size only: extra-large. Such scaling can be subversive, but all too often...
Thursday 11/29 @ Swarm Gallery
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers....
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ Red Vic
Hannah Takes the Stairs may be the first collective effort to emerge from the "true-blue indie" movement burgeoning in the last...
Thursday 11/29 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their...
Thursday 11/29 @ Zellerbach Hall
Defying convention and gravity, Circus Oz's acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers, tightrope walkers, and BMX trick riders will elicit both thrills and...
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Thursday 11/29 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm's photographs of ravaged homes in Louisiana and Kansas, respectively, straddle the line between fine art...
The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
Thursday 11/29 @ The Finn Theatre
Trannyshack royalty Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Thursday 11/29 @ Moscone Center
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Thursday 11/29 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Thursday 11/29 @ 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...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Thursday 11/29 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ Roxie Theater
In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go /...
Thursday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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...
