Events on Friday, November 9
Julian Myers presents Riot Show
Friday 11/ 9 @ TART
TART has lined up a series of evenings that invoke the exploratory spirit and risk-taking programming of the late-night, cult British...
Friday 11/ 9 @ The Independent
Thanks to their regular New Year's shows, Silverlake-by-way-of-
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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)
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Known for being a part of the '60s
Friday 11/ 9 @ Root Division
As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Lumiere Theatre
Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Creativity Explored
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Various locations
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Friday 11/ 9 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Galería de la Raza
In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Roxie Theater
Julie Gravas' debut feature works best as a bottom-up portrait of the confused, morally high-strung reality of living leftist in the...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Haines Gallery
Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath,...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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'...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Roxie Theater
Those seeking solace from American cinema's gratuitous violence and chiseled features will appreciate Global Lens. The annual touring film series showcases...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
