Events on Thursday, November 8
Thursday 11/ 8 @ SF Camerawork
Punk music and violence, whether cartoonishly depicted (The Ramones' "Beat on the Brat") or brutally meted out (see any chapter...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
Video artist Anne McGuire reverses Robert Wise's 1971 adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestselling science fiction potboiler, shot by shot, to...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Rickshaw Stop
Blues/funk/hard rock trio Chow Nasty are like a bowl of oatmeal in your pants — gross and jarring at first, but...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Haines Gallery
Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Known for being a part of the '60s
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski's feature animation, Film Noir, is a prototypical hard-boiled thriller, with not-so-good good guys, truly bad...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Root Division
As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Galería de la Raza
In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Creativity Explored
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
Those seeking solace from American cinema's gratuitous violence and chiseled features will appreciate Global Lens. The annual touring film series showcases...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
