Events on Thursday, January 3
Thursday 1/ 3 @ Adobe Bookshop
Since garnering national attention for his catalog of anxiety-inducing phenomena, Fears of Your Life (which found its way onto NPR, was...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ Herbst Theater
Over the course of several books and articles, Michael Pollan has emerged as a voice of reason amid the sloganeering that...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ Bottom of the Hill
Peppered with cheesy jokes and bouncy, synth-infused pop rock, a Hot Challenge show is the ideal way to detox and re-energize...
Ongoing Events
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ Float
From prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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'...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ Electric Works
Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ Rena Bransten Gallery
Despite the obvious differences in their work, Ruth Asawa's fabric sculptures inspire comparisons with the late Georgia O'Keefe. Both evoke the...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Thursday 1/ 3 @ 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...
