Events on Wednesday, January 30

<em>The Art of Two Empires: Japanese Woodblock Prints and Moghul Miniature Paintings </em>

Art

The Art of Two Empires

Wednesday 1/30 @ Masterworks Institute for Works on Paper

This special exhibit organized by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and the Japan Society of Northern California showcases the... 

Calling All Monsters w/ Touch Committee

Music

Calling All Monsters

Wednesday 1/30 @ Edinburgh Castle Pub

The Edinburgh Castle plays host to a night of local overdriven guitar pop. Calling All Monsters channel the grit of early... 

Ongoing Events

African Film Festival

Film

African Film Festival

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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... 

Katsushige Nakahashi: <em>The Depth of Memory</em>

Art: Photography

Katsushige Nakahashi

Wednesday 1/30 @ SF Camerawork

While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Wednesday 1/30 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

Andrew Moore

Art

Andrew Moore

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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... 

David Mamet: <i>Speed-the-Plow</i>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Wednesday 1/30 @ American Conservatory Theater

In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould... 

Caroline Hwang: <em>Salvage</em>

Art

Caroline Hwang

Wednesday 1/30 @ Giant Robot

Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,... 

<em>Is It a Fiber Show?</em>

Art

Is It a Fiber Show?

Wednesday 1/30 @ Bucheon Gallery

In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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... 

Noir City Film Festival

Film

Noir City Film Festival

Wednesday 1/30 @ The Castro Theatre

Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As... 

<i>In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating 20 Years</i>

Art

In the Fullness of Time

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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... 

<i>Boomerang</i>

Art

Boomerang

Wednesday 1/30 @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery

True to its title, Mario Lemos and Laurie O'Brien's intimate exhibit Boomerang traces a parabolic path connecting a wide swath of... 

<em>Bad Moon Rising</em>

Art

Bad Moon Rising

Wednesday 1/30 @ Silverman Gallery

Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Wednesday 1/30 @ Various locations

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... 

<em>Small Things End, Great Things Endure</em>

Art

Small Things End, Great Things Endure

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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,... 

Jens Haaning

Art

Jens Haaning

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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... 

Creativity Explored presents <em>Finders Keepers</em>

Art

Finders Keepers

Wednesday 1/30 @ Creativity Explored

Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,... 

The Films of Emile de Antonio

Film: Documentary

The Films of Emile de Antonio

Wednesday 1/30 @ SFMOMA

Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping... 

<em> Lautrec in Leather: Chuck Arnett and the Birth of the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art

Chuck Arnett

Wednesday 1/30 @ GLBT Historical Society

June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... 

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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'... 

Jordan Kantor

Art

Jordan Kantor

Wednesday 1/30 @ Ratio 3

Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of... 

<i>Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles</i>

Art

Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles

Wednesday 1/30 @ 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...