Events on Sunday, December 16
Sunday 12/16 @ San Francisco Design Center Galleria
Thread, the fashion spectacle that draws shoppers by the thousands, is every fashionista's dream. This globally covered fair is a prime...
Sunday 12/16 @ Hemlock Tavern
Highly esteemed by European avant-jazz elites, German-born, French- and Swedish-bred Biggi Vinkeloe also has close ties to the Bay Area, thanks...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ Swarm Gallery
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers....
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ Novellus Theater
Despite what Clara and the sugar-plum fairies might have you think, The Nutcracker isn't the only holiday dance event around....
Sunday 12/16 @ CounterPULSE
Combining the gender-bending spectacle of drag shows, the scintillating glamour of burlesque, and the humor of classic circus clowning, Frolic's performances...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ Roxie Theater
Over his four-decade career, local documentary filmmaker Les Blank has shaped any number of sympathetic portraits filled with ethnographic color and...
Sunday 12/16 @ Red Vic
Peter Greenaway's allegory of conceit, deception, and power is a puzzle box of a film. In 17th-century
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Sunday 12/16 @ 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'...
Sunday 12/16 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Sunday 12/16 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Sunday 12/16 @ 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
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
