Events on Friday, November 30
Chris Watson and Florian Hecker
Friday 11/30 @ Recombinant Media Labs
You'll never hear the world in quite the same way after experiencing Chris Watson's field recordings. Whether an...
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[SOLD OUT] The Comedians of Comedy
Friday 11/30 @ The Independent
No longer relegated to basement venues with checkered floors and overpriced drink minimums, standup comedy finally has rock 'n roll cred,...
Friday 11/30 @ Paramount Theatre
Sam Beam's creative growth over the last five years is more than a little miraculous. Though his early recordings as Iron...
Friday 11/30 @ Slim's
Back in the early '90s, the Lemonheads' Evan Dando was one of the poster children for Generation X: a stoned, sensitive...
Etienne de Rocher's Farewell Party
Friday 11/30 @ Rickshaw Stop
For those who have never experienced Etienne de Rocher's tender, blue-eyed soul, this is your last chance to take pride in...
Friday 11/30 @ Hemlock Tavern
Discovered by his future Can band mates while busking outside their gig, vocalist Damo Suzuki later appeared on some of the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/30 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Friday 11/30 @ Space Gallery
Other than Halloween, few occasions inspire thoughts of the undead like the holiday season — which may explain why Space Gallery...
Friday 11/30 @ 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
Friday 11/30 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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...
Friday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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...
Friday 11/30 @ Dance Mission
Choreographer Brittany Brown Ceres' new series of vignettes deftly illustrates natural cycles of change; cerebral and lyrical, her work conveys both...
Friday 11/30 @ 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...
Friday 11/30 @ Swarm Gallery
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers....
Friday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ Red Vic
Hannah Takes the Stairs may be the first collective effort to emerge from the "true-blue indie" movement burgeoning in the last...
Friday 11/30 @ 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...
Friday 11/30 @ 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
Friday 11/30 @ 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...
Friday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Friday 11/30 @ 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
Friday 11/30 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Friday 11/30 @ 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
Friday 11/30 @ 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'...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Friday 11/30 @ 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...
Friday 11/30 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Friday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Friday 11/30 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Friday 11/30 @ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...
The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
Friday 11/30 @ The Finn Theatre
Trannyshack royalty Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Friday 11/30 @ Electric Works
Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of...
Friday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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...
