Events on Saturday, December 15
Saturday 12/15 @ Various locations
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, it's time to rejoice in the true spirit of the season: St....
Saturday 12/15 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Eight hundred years ago, Mevlana Jelaleddin Rumi cultivated a "mystical union" between dervishes' whirls and his language's whorls. The Sufi poet...
Saturday 12/15 @ Mighty
Berlin-based brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz bring the hedonistic spirit of their home city to San Francisco. Slink into the barrage...
Saturday 12/15 @ SF County Fair Building
Gift shopping should be fun, not painful. Offering an alternative to the chaotic and impersonal department-store experience, the Bazaar Bizarre gathers...
Saturday 12/15 @ DNA Lounge
Here, in one corner, is glam-punk band Anti Feminism, whose concept is "the ideology of danger." Lead singer Kenzi meticulously smashes...
Saturday 12/15 @ Public Glass
Glass-blowing is an art form, requiring precision handling to yield stunning compositions of texture, color, and light. Glass blowing can also...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/15 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ CounterPULSE
Combining the gender-bending spectacle of drag shows, the scintillating glamour of burlesque, and the humor of classic circus clowning, Frolic's performances...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ The Finn Theatre
Trannyshack royalty Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Roxie Theater
Over his four-decade career, local documentary filmmaker Les Blank has shaped any number of sympathetic portraits filled with ethnographic color and...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Novellus Theater
Despite what Clara and the sugar-plum fairies might have you think, The Nutcracker isn't the only holiday dance event around....
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ Electric Works
Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of...
Creativity Explored's Holiday Art Sale
Saturday 12/15 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored's annual art sale should come as a tonic for the empty consumerism of holiday shopping. Browse a wide array...
Saturday 12/15 @ Float
From prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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'...
