Events on Sunday, January 20

<em>In the Name of Love</em>: A Musical Tribute Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Special Event: Tribute

In the Name of Love

Sunday 1/20 @ Oakland Scottish Rite Center

Get your spirits up with the sixth-annual installment of this non-denominational tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Linda Tillery and... 

Sex Workers' Art Show

Performing Arts

Sex Workers' Art Show

Sunday 1/20 @ Victoria Theatre

Entertainers from all areas of the sex industry — adult-film stars, burlesque performers, gender-bending call girls, and phone-sex operators — take... 

Rupa w/ Tom Sway and Kevin Welch

Music

Rupa

Sunday 1/20 @ Cafe du Nord

A Bay Area native who's lived in India and France, Rupa Marya weaves her rich cultural background through every thread of... 

Ongoing Events

<em> Lynch </em>

Film: Documentary

Lynch

Sunday 1/20 @ Red Vic

American filmmaker David Lynch has become increasingly inscrutable as he actively promotes transcendental meditation and releases ever more enigmatic works —... 

<em>Conduits of Labor</em>

Art

Conduits of Labor

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

Edward Gorey's <i>Dracula</i>

Art

Dracula

Sunday 1/20 @ Cartoon Art Museum

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Sunday 1/20 @ Various locations

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... 

<em>An Equal Playing Field</em>: New Work by Peter Stegall

Art

An Equal Playing Field

Sunday 1/20 @ Triple Base

Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

The Films of Emile de Antonio

Film: Documentary

The Films of Emile de Antonio

Sunday 1/20 @ SFMOMA

Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping... 

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

<em> Let's Get Lost </em> (1988)

Film

Let's Get Lost

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

Caroline Hwang: <em>Salvage</em>

Art

Caroline Hwang

Sunday 1/20 @ Giant Robot

Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Sunday 1/20 @ SFMOMA

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... 

David Mamet: <i>Speed-the-Plow</i>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 1/20 @ American Conservatory Theater

In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould... 

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Sunday 1/20 @ 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'... 

<i>Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles</i>

Art

Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles

Sunday 1/20 @ 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...