All events on Wednesday January 16

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Music: Rock/Pop
Françoise Hardy Birthday Party
Wednesday Jan 16 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Tonight's celebration of Mme. Hardy's 64th birthday fêtes the seminal French pop chanteuse — who influenced everyone from Keren Ann to Stereo Totale — in... View details »
Françoise Hardy Birthday Party
More Flavor: Discussion
Paul Auster
Wednesday Jan 16 (7pm) @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
... bsp; With a nuanced literary voice that frequently borders on the surreal, Paul Auster boasts an impressive CV of over a dozen novels (including... View details »
Paul Auster

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
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' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Art
Dracula
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum More times »
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
Dracula
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday Jan 16 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ 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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Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Wednesday Jan 16 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Art
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Wednesday Jan 16 (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
Art
Big Ideas, Small Works
Wednesday Jan 16 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
Free
Big-ticket American art sometimes seems to come in one size only: extra-large. Such scaling can be subversive, but all too often it seems like yet... View details »
 Big Ideas, Small Works
Art
Apocalypse Now
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their co-curated exhibition at CCA... View details »
Apocalypse Now
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Wednesday Jan 16 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 16 @ 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
Jovi Schnell
Wednesday Jan 16 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Jovi Schnell
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In the Fullness of Time
Wednesday Jan 16 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades as a respected venue... View details »
In the Fullness of Time
Art
Robots Are Art
Wednesday Jan 16 (10am–10pm) @ Float More times »
Free
... om prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our everyday lives. Celebrating all... View details »
Robots Are Art
More Flavor: Festival
Berlin & Beyond
Wednesday Jan 16 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 16 @ 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
Gee Vaucher
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
Having designed much of the album art for '80s anarcho-peace punks Crass, Gee Vaucher continues to turn her straight razor on the visual culture of... View details »
Gee Vaucher
Art
Boomerang
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–6pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery More times »
Free
True to its title, Mario Lemos and Laurie O'Brien's intimate exhibit Boomerang traces a parabolic path connecting a wide swath of Bay Area artists, rebounding... View details »
Boomerang
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Tim Lee
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Film
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Wednesday Jan 16 (2 & 8pm) @ Red Vic More times »
The unlikely winner of this year's San Francisco Film Critics Circle poll, Andrew Dominik's elegiac western placed well in year-end lists despite its tepid box-office... View details »
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Wednesday Jan 16 (10am–5pm) @ 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: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Wednesday Jan 16 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces hint at the easily... View details »
Katsushige Nakahashi
Art
Finders Keepers
Wednesday Jan 16 (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: Architecture/Design
Is It a Fiber Show?
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery More times »
Free
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was put on trial —... View details »
Is It a Fiber Show?
Art
Caroline Hwang
Wednesday Jan 16 (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