Events on Friday, January 18
Friday 1/18 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2007 was a banner year for Joy Division retrospectives, with remastered editions of the original albums, Anton Corbijn's striking Ian Curtis...
Friday 1/18 @ The Fillmore
Even if Cornelius' orange-cream-soda dream of an album Fantasma didn't net him the pop crossover status he so richly deserved when...
Friday 1/18 @ The Booksmith
Fray started as a storytelling blog for writers' true stories about everything from working at KFC to delivering a baby during...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ Red Vic
American filmmaker David Lynch has become increasingly inscrutable as he actively promotes transcendental meditation and releases ever more enigmatic works —...
Friday 1/18 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Friday 1/18 @ Ratio 3
Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of...
Friday 1/18 @ The Crucible
Pairing the spectacles of fire and fashion, edgy industrial-art space the Crucible brings new meaning to the word "hot" for its...
Friday 1/18 @ 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
Friday 1/18 @ 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,...
Friday 1/18 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ 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'...
Friday 1/18 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ Triple Base
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement...
Friday 1/18 @ The Castro Theatre
The Castro screens a new 35mm restoration of Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's rapturous 1988 portrait of trumpet crooner Chet...
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Friday 1/18 @ Giant Robot
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,...
Friday 1/18 @ American Conservatory Theater
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
Friday 1/18 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ Queen's Nail Annex
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
