Events on Tuesday, January 29
We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass
Tuesday 1/29 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Los Angeles-based media mavens Julia Meltzer and David Thorne created Speculative Archive as an artistic response to the faceless bureaucratic agencies...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Moe's Books
With an impressive list of past and present projects — including spoken word with Sister Spit, a nightlife column on SFGate.com,...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Great American Music Hall
Although the band dissolved in the early '80s, the Jam's influence still echoes in the wails, bass lines, and guitar riffs...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/29 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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,...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ American Conservatory Theater
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
Tuesday 1/29 @ Cafe du Nord
Rickie Lee Jones once described her upbringing as "lower-middle-class-hillbilly-hipster," a social niche that certainly fostered her solid, heartfelt sound. Combining jazz-inflected...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ The Castro Theatre
Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As...
Tuesday 1/29 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Tuesday 1/29 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Giant Robot
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Tuesday 1/29 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Tuesday 1/29 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
