Events on Sunday, October 12
Sunday 10/12 @ Headlands Center for the Arts
The Headlands Center gives San Franciscans a good reason to cross the Golden Gate and enjoy some fresh air this weekend:...
Sunday 10/12 @ de Young Museum
Dangerous is the aural terrain traversed by the Nice Guy Trio: in pulling from globe-spanning musical genres, the group tiptoes around...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/12 @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens
Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding is a new addition to a rich history of Oresteia adaptations, but it has already generated plenty...
Sunday 10/12 @ American Conservatory Theater
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge,...
Sunday 10/12 @ Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases...
Sunday 10/12 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Sunday 10/12 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf...
Sunday 10/12 @ Various locations
BhangraFest is San Francisco's way of vibrantly celebrating one of India's most popular styles of music. Learn the latest moves during...
Sunday 10/12 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Fecal Face's Chicago correspondent, Ryan Christian, heads west with a talent pool plucked from all over the map — New York,...
Sunday 10/12 @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a...
Sunday 10/12 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Sunday 10/12 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
Sunday 10/12 @ CFI Rafael Film Center
The installation Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions explores and celebrates the influential oeuvre of one of the world's...
Sunday 10/12 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Sunday 10/12 @ Triple Base
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a...
Sunday 10/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...
Sunday 10/12 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Sunday 10/12 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Sunday 10/12 @ Oakland Museum of California
In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Sunday 10/12 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Sunday 10/12 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
Sunday 10/12 @ Brava Theater Center
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good...
Sunday 10/12 @ Various locations
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Sunday 10/12 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth...
Sunday 10/12 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Commemorating the centenary of Russian cinema, the PFA festival draws from an extensive catalog of films produced at Mosfilm, the most...
