All events on Wednesday January 23
Previous day|Next day
- Art
-
Jens Haaning
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
More times »
-
Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His daring conceptual works toy... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
-
KIT
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
-
It's hard to be hardcore with a straight face these days, so KIT opt for cheeky smiles. Singer Kristy might start off a song with... View details »
- Film
-
La Chinoise
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (6:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
-
A pop-art-painted apartment becomes a miniature terrarium for student revolution in Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise. Portraying the four Little Red Book-waving inhabitants with equal sympathy... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
-
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
More times »
-
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 »
- Art
-
Big Ideas, Small Works
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery
More times »
-
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 »
- Art
-
Apocalypse Now
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
More times »
-
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 »
- Film
-
Let's Get Lost
-
Wednesday Jan 23 @ The Castro Theatre
More times »
-
The Castro screens a new 35mm restoration of Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's rapturous 1988 portrait of trumpet crooner Chet Baker. Once the epitome... View details »
- Film: Animation
-
Persepolis
-
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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 »
- Art
-
In the Fullness of Time
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store
More times »
-
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 »
- Art
-
Boomerang
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery
More times »
-
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 »
- Art
-
Tim Lee
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
More times »
-
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 »
- Art
-
Andrew Moore
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery
More times »
-
Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling walls and hollow interiors... View details »
- Art
-
Amoeba Art Show
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ Space Gallery
More times »
-
This multimedia group show gives Amoeba's clerks and stockers a chance to show off their talents — beyond pointing you towards that obscure Bavarian microhouse... View details »
- Art
-
Finders Keepers
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
More times »
-
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 »
- Art
-
Caroline Hwang
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
More times »
-
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 »
- Art
-
Jordan Kantor
-
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
More times »
-
Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves... View details »
