All events on Tuesday October 28

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Music: Rock/Pop
Ane Brun
Tuesday Oct 28 (8pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Norwegian songstress Ane Brun may best be described to American audiences as the thinking-Scandinavian-man's Dolly Parton. Brun's blissful vocals evoke the innocence and clarity of... View details »
Ane Brun
Music: Rock/Pop
Fujiya & Miyagi w/ Prototypes
Tuesday Oct 28 (8pm) @ The Independent
Fujiya and Miyagi may have humble origins (the bandmates met while warming the benches at an amateur soccer game), but the Brighton-based quartet has recently... View details »
Fujiya & Miyagi w/ Prototypes

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Art
Tim Lee
Tuesday Oct 28 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Tuesday Oct 28 (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
Art
Banned and Recovered
Tuesday Oct 28 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book More times »
Free
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of schools, libraries, and the... View details »
Banned and Recovered
Art
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Tuesday Oct 28 (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: DJ
Girl Talk
Tuesday Oct 28 (8pm) @ The Fillmore More times »
Sold Out!
It's likely that Pittsburgh never thought it would have a citizen described as a pioneer of "laptop rock," but Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) has... View details »
Girl Talk
Art
The Wizard of Oz
Tuesday Oct 28 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis of this tightly-packed group... View details »
The Wizard of Oz
Art: Photography
Hungry Planet
Tuesday Oct 28 (9am–5pm) @ World Affairs Center More times »
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate — noted food editor James... View details »
Hungry Planet
Art
Frank Lobdell
Tuesday Oct 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery More times »
Free
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank Lobdell fought on the... View details »
Frank Lobdell
Art: Photography
Brought to Light
Tuesday Oct 28 (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
Art of Democracy
Tuesday Oct 28 (11am–5pm) @ Meridian Gallery More times »
Free
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated exhibitions have cropped up... View details »
Art of Democracy
Art
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Tuesday Oct 28 (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
Art
Other Than History
Tuesday Oct 28 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds, Torreya Cummings purchased samples... View details »
Other Than History
Art
Dustin Fosnot
Tuesday Oct 28 (11am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
Domestic trappings and urban landscapes collide in Dustin Fosnot's latest series, Cyanide. To install these jarring pieces, the artist drops mattresses printed with a shadowy... View details »
Dustin Fosnot
Art
Koralie
Tuesday Oct 28 (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
Film
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Tuesday Oct 28 @ 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: Photography
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Tuesday Oct 28 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks to transform gallery goers... View details »
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Art
It's Alright
Tuesday Oct 28 (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
Tuesday Oct 28 (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
Film: Festival
Envisioning Russia
Tuesday Oct 28 @ 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
DocFest
Tuesday Oct 28 @ Various locations More times »
The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica and oddball tales. This... View details »
DocFest
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Tuesday Oct 28 @ 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
Tuesday Oct 28 (11:30am–8pm) @ 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