Events on Monday, November 5

Roscoe Mitchell w/ Chris Brown, Zeena Parkins, Pauline Oliveros, William Winant, and India Cooke

Music

Roscoe Mitchell

Monday 11/ 5 @ Mills College Art Museum

Tonight's group improvisation represents a veritable Olympian gathering of some of experimental music's boldest and most-respected innovators. Zeena Parkins — frequent... 

Five & Diamond Opening Gala

Party

Five & Diamond Opening Gala

Monday 11/ 5 @ Elbo Room

Five & Diamond celebrates its premiere on Valencia Street with a party that fully showcases its distinct ambitions. Both a retail... 

Ongoing Events

Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Monday 11/ 5 @ Various locations

San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Monday 11/ 5 @ SFMOMA

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... 

11th International Latino Film Festival

Film

Int'l Latino Film Festival

Monday 11/ 5 @ Various locations

With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more... 

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Monday 11/ 5 @ 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... 

<i>The Book Art of Edward Gorey</i>

Art

The Book Art of Edward Gorey

Monday 11/ 5 @ 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... 

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Monday 11/ 5 @ 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... 

<i>Sweet Sunny Temper</i>

Art

Sweet Sunny Temper

Monday 11/ 5 @ Double Punch Toy Store

  With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... 

The X-Ray Project: <i>Inside Terrorism</i>

Art

Inside Terrorism

Monday 11/ 5 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak... 

Nathan Redwood: <i>Recent Works</i>

Art

Recent Works

Monday 11/ 5 @ Electric Works

  Nathan Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl... 

<i>Super Heroes Super Villains</i>

Art

Super Heroes Super Villains

Monday 11/ 5 @ Creativity Explored

In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Monday 11/ 5 @ 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... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Monday 11/ 5 @ 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... 

Jonathan Callan, Frank Ebert, Armando Miguelez, Julio Cesar Morales, and Gabrielle Teschner: <i>Displaced</i>

Art

Displaced

Monday 11/ 5 @ John Berggruen Gallery