Events on Tuesday, October 14
Tuesday 10/14 @ Oakland Metro
With Cryptopsy succumbing to the metalcore epidemic, Kataklysm remain one of the only Canadian bands left standing from the '90s death-metal...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Herbst Theatre
Andre Dubus III's résumé reads a bit like a novel; the man has been everything from bartender to bounty hunter, and...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Books Inc.
In the late '70s, Art Spiegelman published his first major work, Breakdowns, a collection of strips that tackle the artist's own...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Canny critics have long noted the overlapping late-19th-century technologies of railroads and motion pictures, but James Benning's RR is a more...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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,...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Domestic trappings and urban landscapes collide in Dustin Fosnot's latest series, Cyanide. To install these jarring pieces, the artist drops mattresses...
Tuesday 10/14 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Tuesday 10/14 @ SF Camerawork
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Tuesday 10/14 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Tuesday 10/14 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Cafe du Nord
For their latest release, Motion to Rejoin, Alabama earthies Brightblack Morning Light conjured longhair folk spirits at solar-powered desert studio in...
Tuesday 10/14 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
