Events on Saturday, December 1
The SF Silent Film Festival Winter Event
Saturday 12/ 1 @ The Castro Theatre
Nothing warms a cinephile's heart like a packed house at the Castro for a few beautiful prints of silent movies. The...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Bottom of the Hill
Following their brief
Saturday 12/ 1 @ SF Camerawork
For more than 30 years, SF Camerawork has been a quiet key player in the Bay Area arts scene — a...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Famously described as the missing link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott has been howling folk blues for...
Asian Art Museum Community Day
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Asian Art Museum
As a way of saying thank you, the
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Barnes & Noble
Those who think ruins can only be claimed by countries such as China, Egypt, and Greece will be in for a...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
The Living End, Gregg Araki's queering of Bonnie and Clyde, was an impassioned and at times puerile middle finger to the...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts
With the season of giving right around the corner, nothing says "I love you" (or at the least, "Hey, we're...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
After years of languishing between projects, flame-haired actress Kathy Griffin has successfully parlayed her attention-grabbing, self-deprecating (read: annoying) persona into bona...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Space Gallery
Other than Halloween, few occasions inspire thoughts of the undead like the holiday season — which may explain why Space Gallery...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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'...
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Moscone Center
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Dance Mission
Choreographer Brittany Brown Ceres' new series of vignettes deftly illustrates natural cycles of change; cerebral and lyrical, her work conveys both...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Swarm Gallery
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers....
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Zellerbach Hall
Defying convention and gravity, Circus Oz's acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers, tightrope walkers, and BMX trick riders will elicit both thrills and...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Electric Works
Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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)
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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'...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Red Vic
Hannah Takes the Stairs may be the first collective effort to emerge from the "true-blue indie" movement burgeoning in the last...
