Events on Friday, December 14
Friday 12/14 @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
Authors Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais have assembled a compendium of creation called At the Edge of Art, a book of...
Friday 12/14 @ Hemlock Tavern
Berkeley-based record label Absolutely Kosher teams up with boutique promoter the Kork Agency for a humdinger of a holiday party at...
Friday 12/14 @ Bottom of the Hill
Frenetic's ten-year anniversary is such an occasion for celebration, it requires two nights of partying and performances. The SF record label's...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/14 @ Market Street Gallery
The Market Street Gallery's latest group show explores the potential of that most humble of mediums: paper. Twenty-five local artists salute...
Friday 12/14 @ Zellerbach Hall
You'll notice something odd beneath all the tulle and sequins adorning The Hard Nut's dancers: the pirouetting Sugar Plum Fairies are...
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Friday 12/14 @ 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...
The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
Friday 12/14 @ The Finn Theatre
Trannyshack royalty Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Friday 12/14 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Friday 12/14 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ Roxie Theater
Over his four-decade career, local documentary filmmaker Les Blank has shaped any number of sympathetic portraits filled with ethnographic color and...
Friday 12/14 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Friday 12/14 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Whether they're set in a plague-ravaged medieval landscape or in a stifling island summer home, Ingmar Bergman's films place humankind's uncertainty...
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Friday 12/14 @ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...
Friday 12/14 @ ODC Theater
Tonight, the ODC Theater fills with the clatter of castanets and stomping feet, courtesy of Emmy award-winning dancer/choreographer Yaelisa and her...
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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'...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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...
Friday 12/14 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Having designed much of the album art for '80s anarcho-peace punks Crass, Gee Vaucher continues to turn her straight razor on...
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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...
Friday 12/14 @ Float
From prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our...
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ Novellus Theater
Despite what Clara and the sugar-plum fairies might have you think, The Nutcracker isn't the only holiday dance event around....
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ CounterPULSE
Combining the gender-bending spectacle of drag shows, the scintillating glamour of burlesque, and the humor of classic circus clowning, Frolic's performances...
Creativity Explored's Holiday Art Sale
Friday 12/14 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored's annual art sale should come as a tonic for the empty consumerism of holiday shopping. Browse a wide array...
Friday 12/14 @ The Luggage Store
Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday 12/14 @ 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...
