All events on Sunday October 12

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Art
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Sunday Oct 12 (11am–5:30pm) @ Contemporary Jewish Museum More times »
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century would warrant a... View details »
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Music: Jazz/Blues
The Nice Guy Trio
Sunday Oct 12 (2:30pm) @ de Young Museum
Free
Dangerous is the aural terrain traversed by the Nice Guy Trio: in pulling from globe-spanning musical genres, the group tiptoes around the all-consuming chasm known... View details »
The Nice Guy Trio
Art
Headlands Open House
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–5pm) @ Headlands Center for the Arts
Free
The Headlands Center gives San Franciscans a good reason to cross the Golden Gate and enjoy some fresh air this weekend: their triannual open house... View details »
Headlands Open House

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More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Sunday Oct 12 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
Ground Scores
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
Bay Area Now 5
More Flavor: Exhibition
Cool Globes
Sunday Oct 12 @ Crissy Field More times »
Free
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history have all happened since... View details »
Cool Globes
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll
Sunday Oct 12 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge, England and Prague. Incorporating... View details »
Rock 'n' Roll
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New Heaven
Sunday Oct 12 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
Free
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf Shop, then, is a... View details »
New Heaven
Film
Ingmar Bergman
Sunday Oct 12 (2–9pm) @ CFI Rafael Film Center More times »
Giveaway
The installation Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions explores and celebrates the influential oeuvre of one of the world's seminal filmmakers. In masterpieces... View details »
Ingmar Bergman
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beyond the Mirror
Sunday Oct 12 (3pm) @ Brava Theater Center More times »
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good idea. Formed in 2000... View details »
Beyond the Mirror
Art: Photography
Brought to Light
Sunday Oct 12 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring the ways it led... View details »
Brought to Light
Art
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill the Oakland Museum of... View details »
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
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Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Sunday Oct 12 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into the emotional substance of... View details »
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
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West, Wester, Westest
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–6pm) @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery More times »
Free
Fecal Face's Chicago correspondent, Ryan Christian, heads west with a talent pool plucked from all over the map — New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, and... View details »
West, Wester, Westest
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Koralie
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–6pm) @ FIFTY24SF Gallery More times »
Free
French street artist Koralie started out wheat-pasting the walls of Toulouse with her signature kimono-clad geishas and has since moved on to decorate the back... View details »
Koralie
Performing Arts: Comedy
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Sunday Oct 12 @ Post Street Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood into a one-man show... View details »
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Film
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Sunday Oct 12 @ SFMOMA More times »
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and filmmakers produced a flurry... View details »
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Art
Jay Nelson
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a dominant government. But for... View details »
Jay Nelson
Art
L.A. Paint
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases some of SoCal's best... View details »
L.A. Paint
Art
buZ blurr
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
Trains may not have the same hold on the popular imagination as they once did, but a recent flurry of films and books (Who is... View details »
buZ blurr
Art
It's Alright
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–7pm) @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery More times »
Free
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a whimsical effect that relies... View details »
It's Alright
More Flavor: Lecture
Japanese Tattoo
Sunday Oct 12 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
Giveaway
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject for the October edition... View details »
Japanese Tattoo
Performing Arts: Theatre
Good Breeding
Sunday Oct 12 (2pm) @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens More times »
Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding is a new addition to a rich history of Oresteia adaptations, but it has already generated plenty of off-stage drama, with... View details »
Good Breeding
Film: Festival
Envisioning Russia
Sunday Oct 12 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive More times »
Commemorating the centenary of Russian cinema, the PFA festival draws from an extensive catalog of films produced at Mosfilm, the most prominent Soviet film-production studio.... View details »
Envisioning Russia
Film: Festival
French Cinema Now
Sunday Oct 12 @ Landmark Clay Theatre More times »
The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The San Francisco Film Society's... View details »
French Cinema Now
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Sunday Oct 12 @ Various Locations More times »
BhangraFest is San Francisco's way of vibrantly celebrating one of India's most popular styles of music. Learn the latest moves during dance lessons with Nonstop... View details »
BhangraFest
Art
Game Over
Sunday Oct 12 (noon–7pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
Whether they favor 3D first-person shooters or old-school 8-bit technology, video-game junkies can find something to geek out about at Giant Robot's latest group show.... View details »
Game Over