Events on Wednesday, October 29
Wednesday 10/29 @ Gypsy Honeymoon
San Francisco has long been a ghost's town, and so it's not a stretch that contemporary writers would find inspiration in...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Cafe du Nord
Since forming string-enhanced electronic duo Talkdemonic in 2003, multi-instrumentalists Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro have become indie staples, touring with such...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Museum of Performance & Design
This evening of mingling and artful horror includes a costume contest for those dressed in their most theatrical and ghoulish garb,...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Rickshaw Stop
After scoring opening slots for reclusive psychedelic-electro masterminds Black Moth Super Rainbow and the loopy, cerebral Four Tet, San Francisco's six-man...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Bollyhood Cafe
San Francisco has no shortage of venues that screen outré film and video, but Independent Exposure's annual Halloweird festival compiles the...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Wednesday 10/29 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Various locations
The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
