Events on Wednesday, October 15
Wednesday 10/15 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Renowned for her heart-wrenching rasp and unassailable take on Chicago soul, Mavis Staples was a Stax institution by the early '70s....
Wednesday 10/15 @ Bottom of the Hill
Sure, the Canadian springs have just about run dry, but when an incredible label like Warp starts dropping pail, there must...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Bimbo's
Jolie Holland's songs are at once old and new — too freaky for blues, too jazzy for folk, and too punky...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Broadway Studios
During his recent stopover at the Castro Theatre, John Waters quipped that if gays are denied the right to marry, then...
Ongoing Events
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Wednesday 10/15 @ Intersection for the Arts
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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,...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Wednesday 10/15 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
