All events on Monday December 17

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Film
Belle de Jour
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Artists' Television Access
What do women want? Belle de Jour, Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel's answer to Sigmund Freud's $64,000 question, is as icily beautiful and teasingly withholding as... View details »
Belle de Jour
Performing Arts: Comedy
Bill Santiago
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (7–9:30pm) @ The Make-Out Room
Bill Santiago headlines a night of comedy at Nato Green's Laughing Liberally showcase. With a Comedy Central special under his belt, the standup-circuit... View details »
Bill Santiago

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Art
Douglas Gordon
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
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Olafur Eliasson
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
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Lucy McKenzie
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
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Rex Ray
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
Free
An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among San Francisco's most prolific artists and designers. Gallery 16's show... View details »
Rex Ray
Film
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Charlie Chaplin's Tramp is an icon by design, but the bowler hat and mustache only go so far towards describing the substance of cinema's Chaplin.... View details »
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
More Flavor: Benefit
Creativity Explored's Holiday Art Sale
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
Creativity Explored's annual art sale should come as a tonic for the empty consumerism of holiday shopping. Browse a wide array of original pieces, and... View details »
Creativity Explored's Holiday Art Sale
Art
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
Free
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm's photographs of ravaged homes in Louisiana and Kansas, respectively, straddle the line between fine art and photojournalism. Simultaneously harrowing... View details »
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
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Civil Twilight
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of destruction and transition, mirroring... View details »
Civil Twilight
Film: Documentary
All in This Tea
Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Over his four-decade career, local documentary filmmaker Les Blank has shaped any number of sympathetic portraits filled with ethnographic color and individual voices. His latest,... View details »
All in This Tea
Performing Arts: Dance
Christmas Ballet
Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Novellus Theater More times »
Despite what Clara and the sugar-plum fairies might have you think, The Nutcracker isn't the only holiday dance event around. A Bay Area institution... View details »
Christmas Ballet
Film
Ingmar Bergman
Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
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 in the face of... View details »
Ingmar Bergman
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Red Vic More times »
Peter Greenaway's allegory of conceit, deception, and power is a puzzle box of a film. In 17th-century England, an aristocrat's wife commissions an... View details »
The Draughtsman's Contract
Performing Arts: Dance
The Hard Nut
Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
You'll notice something odd beneath all the tulle and sequins adorning The Hard Nut's dancers: the pirouetting Sugar Plum Fairies are actually men sashaying with... View details »
The Hard Nut
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Monday Dec 17, 2007 (10am–7pm) @ The Book Club of California More times »
Free
When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and moribund imagination to others.... View details »
The Book Art of Edward Gorey