Events on Thursday, October 2
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
DocFest is still a few weeks away, but the YBCA's sneak preview of the documentary celebration provides a glimpse of things...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Eagle Tavern
To say Joe Preston likes his music heavy is a major understatement. A veteran of some of the most brutal, devastating...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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,...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ White Walls Gallery
Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Various locations
The eighth annual Tease-O-Rama burlesque convention arrives in town with a schedule so packed that it's sure to make your tassels...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Artists' Television Access
Come and support Artists’ Television Access, a bastion of Bay Area independent arts, during their annual Film & Video festival. Opening...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Adobe Bookshop
In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Brava Theater Center
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ David Cunningham Projects
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday 10/ 2 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Needles & Pens
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Roxie Theater
The curators of Dead Channels never fail to fully exploit — or graphically illustrate — the many senses of the phrase...
