Events on Wednesday, January 9
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ San Francisco Public Library
Marco Williams' Sundance-nominated documentary excavates a dark corner of American racism, illustrating William Faulkner's epigram, "The past is never dead. It...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Cafe du Nord
A veteran of avant-rock group San Augustin, as well as Rhys Chatham's illustrious ensembles,
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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'...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Roxie Theater
As the quagmire of the
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Float
From prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ American Conservatory Theater
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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)
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
