Events on Thursday, January 17
Thursday 1/17 @ Great American Music Hall
With an advanced degree in computer music under his belt, Dan Deacon stages batty performances by merging film footage with live...
Thursday 1/17 @ The Castro Theatre
The formula of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was brilliantly simple: three irreverent voices cracked jokes during hopelessly campy sci-fi...
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Thursday 1/17 @ SFMOMA
Devendra Banhart remains freak folk's pater familias, though the singer's latest opus, Smoky Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, received a somewhat cool...
Thursday 1/17 @ The Independent
Still rocking their "Black Mags" momentum, Chi-town's Cool Kids return to San Francisco with their addictive old-school beats and smooth-as-molasses flow....
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/17 @ 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'...
Thursday 1/17 @ Red Vic
American filmmaker David Lynch has become increasingly inscrutable as he actively promotes transcendental meditation and releases ever more enigmatic works —...
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
Thursday 1/17 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Thursday 1/17 @ Float
From prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our...
Thursday 1/17 @ Triple Base
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement...
Thursday 1/17 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
Thursday 1/17 @ The Crucible
Pairing the spectacles of fire and fashion, edgy industrial-art space the Crucible brings new meaning to the word "hot" for its...
Thursday 1/17 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Thursday 1/17 @ Giant Robot
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,...
Thursday 1/17 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Thursday 1/17 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
Thursday 1/17 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
Thursday 1/17 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Thursday 1/17 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm's photographs of ravaged homes in Louisiana and Kansas, respectively, straddle the line between fine art...
Thursday 1/17 @ The Book Club of California
When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Thursday 1/17 @ New Langton Arts
Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,...
Thursday 1/17 @ American Conservatory Theater
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
Thursday 1/17 @ Rena Bransten Gallery
Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling...
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Thursday 1/17 @ 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...
