All events on Monday January 14

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Music: Rock/Pop
Bart Davenport
Monday Jan 14 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Giveaway
Berkeley's long-standing best-kept secret, Bart Davenport delivers a bewitching blend of AM pop, blue-eyed soul, and soft-hewn singer/songwriter ballads — name a '70s style, and... View details »
Bart Davenport
Performing Arts
The Sound of Young America Live
Monday Jan 14 (8–9:30pm) @ Eureka Theatre
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The Sound of Young America Live

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Art
Douglas Gordon
Monday Jan 14 (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
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Monday Jan 14 (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
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Monday Jan 14 @ 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)
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Monday Jan 14 (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
Art
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Monday Jan 14 (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
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Monday Jan 14 @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
Persepolis
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Monday Jan 14 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould can't decide between producing... View details »
Speed-the-Plow
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Monday Jan 14 (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
More Flavor: Festival
Berlin & Beyond
Monday Jan 14 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
The Berlin & Beyond Film Festival features the best new cinema from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Showcasing narratives, documentaries, shorts, and restored silent films, this... View details »
Berlin & Beyond
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Monday Jan 14 @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping the radical discourses that... View details »
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Monday Jan 14 (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
Art
Finders Keepers
Monday Jan 14 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late, great Cornell, the participants... View details »
Finders Keepers
Art
Caroline Hwang
Monday Jan 14 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
Caroline Hwang