Events on Tuesday, January 8
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ Stork Club
The Story concert series continues to unravel the Stork Club's rough exterior with another bill of lovely, somnambulant folk, featuring Emily...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ Float
From prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ American Conservatory Theater
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ The Castro Theatre
Rarely in the history of cinema has a director-actor collaboration been as thrillingly productive as that of Akira Kurosawa and Toshirô...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
As the quagmire of the
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not...
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ The Fillmore
Social Distortion are as inextricable from California as beaches, surfing, and endless summers. With a roots-punk style they've been honing since...
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Tuesday 1/ 8 @ 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...
