All events on Thursday January 03

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Music: Rock/Pop
Hot Challenge
Thursday Jan 3 (9pm) @ 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 from the latest round... View details »
Hot Challenge
More Flavor: Discussion
Michael Pollan
Thursday Jan 3 (8pm) @ Herbst Theater
Over the course of several books and articles, Michael Pollan has emerged as a voice of reason amid the sloganeering that overruns food culture and... View details »
Michael Pollan
Reading
Michael Bernard Loggins
Thursday Jan 3 (7pm) @ Adobe Bookshop
Free
Since garnering national attention for his catalog of anxiety-inducing phenomena, Fears of Your Life (which found its way onto NPR, was featured in an academic... View details »
Michael Bernard Loggins
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Thursday Jan 3 (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

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–7pm) @ 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
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Dracula
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum More times »
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
Dracula
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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)
Thursday Jan 3 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ 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
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Thursday Jan 3 (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
Thursday Jan 3 (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
Thursday Jan 3 (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
Ruth Asawa
Thursday Jan 3 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery More times »
Free
Despite the obvious differences in their work, Ruth Asawa's fabric sculptures inspire comparisons with the late Georgia O'Keefe. Both evoke the natural world while refusing... View details »
Ruth Asawa
Art
Civil Twilight
Thursday Jan 3 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of destruction and transition, mirroring... View details »
Civil Twilight
Art
Apocalypse Now
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–7pm) @ 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
Art
Jovi Schnell
Thursday Jan 3 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Jovi Schnell
Art
In the Fullness of Time
Thursday Jan 3 (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
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Art
Robots Are Art
Thursday Jan 3 (10am–10pm) @ Float More times »
Free
... om prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our everyday lives. Celebrating all... View details »
Robots Are Art
Art
Gee Vaucher
Thursday Jan 3 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
Having designed much of the album art for '80s anarcho-peace punks Crass, Gee Vaucher continues to turn her straight razor on the visual culture of... View details »
Gee Vaucher
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Thursday Jan 3 (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