All events on Thursday January 31

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Film
Day Is Done
Thursday Jan 31 (7:30pm) @ Novellus Theater
Distilling what art critic Jerry Saltz called the "clusterfuck aesthetic" of his sprawling, 2005 mixed-media installation of the same name into an epic-length pseudo-musical, Mike... View details »
Day Is Done
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lydia's Funeral Video
Thursday Jan 31 (8pm) @ The Dark Room More times »
Visions of the not-so-distant future usually connote alien invasions, zombie attacks, or at least some presidential administration shake-ups, but local actress, musician, playwright, and stand-up... View details »
Lydia's Funeral Video
Music: Rock/Pop
Vampire Weekend
Thursday Jan 31 (10pm) @ 330 Ritch
Giveaway
For those who avoid the typical channels of hype, the oddly named Vampire Weekend are the latest yelpy Brooklyn act to stir up the blogosphere.... View details »
Vampire Weekend
More Flavor: Party
Better Propoganda's 4th Anniversary Party
Thursday Jan 31 (9pm–2am) @ 111 Minna Gallery
SF-based music-discovery-and-news site Better Propaganda rings in its fourth anniversary with an eclectic and inspired lineup that draws on some of the area's most groundbreaking... View details »
Better Propoganda's 4th Anniversary Party

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Thursday Jan 31 (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 31 (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
Olafur Eliasson
Thursday Jan 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Thursday Jan 31 @ 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
Thursday Jan 31 @ 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
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Thursday Jan 31 @ 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
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–7pm) @ 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
An-My Lê
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Jens Haaning
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Film
Noir City Film Festival
Thursday Jan 31 @ 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
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Thursday Jan 31 @ 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?
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Caroline Hwang
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Enter the Center
Thursday Jan 31 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery More times »
Free
For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the umbrella of Ribbons Publications,... View details »
Enter the Center
Art
An Equal Playing Field
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Thursday Jan 31 (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
Art
Bad Moon Rising
Thursday Jan 31 (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