All events on Friday January 25

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Music: Rock/Pop
Liars
Friday Jan 25 (9pm) @ Slim's
Armed with little more than a massively fuzzed-up guitar and ferociously pounded drum kit, No Age's sloppy, restless sound is true art-punk bliss. Echoing the... View details »
Liars
Film
Noir City Film Festival
Friday Jan 25 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As with earlier incarnations, ten... View details »
Noir City Film Festival
Music: Rock/Pop
Rykarda Parasol
Friday Jan 25 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
... karda Parasol's smoky, deep voice belies her petite frame and shares a brooding tone with songstresses like Marianne Faithfull, Nico, and Concrete Blonde's Johnette... View details »
Rykarda Parasol
Music: Electronic
Gui Boratto
Friday Jan 25 (10pm) @ Fat City
Giveaway
Frequent flirtations with pop, glam, ambient, and trance have always made Kompakt hard to pigeonhole. But recently, the techno super-label's arsenal of producers has swelled... View details »
Gui Boratto
More Flavor: Lecture
An Inside Look at the Creation Museum
Friday Jan 25 (6:30pm) @ World Affairs Center
Despite protests from eminent scientists, the National Center for Science Education, and atheists everywhere, the Answers in Genesis ministry's $27-million Creation Museum has thrived since... View details »
An Inside Look at the Creation Museum
Film
Trapped in the Closet
Friday Jan 25 (7:30pm) @ Mezzanine
Our grandparents had The Sound of Music (1965). Our parents had Grease (1978). We're blessed with R. Kelly's epic R&B operetta masterpiece, in which the... View details »
Trapped in the Closet
Film
Adventure Poseidon, the (the Unsinking of My Ship)
Friday Jan 25 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
AS she did with The Adromeda Strain (1971) in Strain Andromeda The (1992), video artist Anne McGuire reversed Ronald Neame's 1972 titanic disaster epic shot-by-shot,... View details »
Adventure Poseidon, the (the Unsinking of My Ship)
Art
Bad Moon Rising
Friday Jan 25 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising continues the sentiment that... View details »
Bad Moon Rising

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Friday Jan 25 (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
Douglas Gordon
Friday Jan 25 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Friday Jan 25 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday Jan 25 (9:30am–8:45pm) @ 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)
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Friday Jan 25 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Friday Jan 25 (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
Friday Jan 25 (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
Friday Jan 25 (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
Friday Jan 25 (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
Friday Jan 25 @ 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
Friday Jan 25 @ 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
In the Fullness of Time
Friday Jan 25 (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: Photography
Jeff Wall
Friday Jan 25 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Friday Jan 25 @ 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
Boomerang
Friday Jan 25 (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
Art
Tim Lee
Friday Jan 25 (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
Art
Jens Haaning
Friday Jan 25 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
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 »
Jens Haaning
Art
Andrew Moore
Friday Jan 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Andrew Moore
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Friday Jan 25 (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
Amoeba Art Show
Friday Jan 25 (8pm) @ Space Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Amoeba Art Show
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Friday Jan 25 (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
Friday Jan 25 (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
Film
African Film Festival
Friday Jan 25 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night belongs to Abderrahmane Sissako's... View details »
African Film Festival
Art: Architecture/Design
Is It a Fiber Show?
Friday Jan 25 (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
Chuck Arnett
Friday Jan 25 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
Chuck Arnett
Art
Conduits of Labor
Friday Jan 25 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
Conduits of Labor
Art
Caroline Hwang
Friday Jan 25 (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
Art
An Equal Playing Field
Friday Jan 25 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement to reconcile with his... View details »
An Equal Playing Field
Art
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Friday Jan 25 (noon–6pm) @ New Langton Arts More times »
Free
Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, this show demonstrates that... View details »
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Art
Jordan Kantor
Friday Jan 25 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
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 »
Jordan Kantor