Events on Thursday, January 31
Thursday 1/31 @ Novellus Theater
Distilling what art critic Jerry Saltz called the "clusterfuck aesthetic" of his sprawling, 2005 mixed-media installation of the same name into...
Better Propoganda's 4th Anniversary Party
Thursday 1/31 @ 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...
Thursday 1/31 @ 330 Ritch
For those who avoid the typical channels of hype, the oddly named Vampire Weekend are the latest yelpy
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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...
Thursday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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...
Thursday 1/31 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Thursday 1/31 @ American Conservatory Theater
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Thursday 1/31 @ 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,...
Thursday 1/31 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Thursday 1/31 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Thursday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ The Castro Theatre
Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As...
Thursday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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...
Thursday 1/31 @ The Dark Room
Visions of the not-so-distant future usually connote alien invasions, zombie attacks, or at least some presidential administration shake-ups, but local actress,...
Thursday 1/31 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Thursday 1/31 @ Triple Base
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement...
Thursday 1/31 @ 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...
Thursday 1/31 @ 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...
Thursday 1/31 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Thursday 1/31 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the...
Thursday 1/31 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Thursday 1/31 @ Giant Robot
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,...
Thursday 1/31 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Thursday 1/31 @ 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...
