Events on Friday, October 3
Rosemary's Baby and The Devils
Friday 10/ 3 @ The Castro Theatre
So by now we all know just how extra-special the bun in Rosemary Woodhouse's oven is. This makes The Devils, the...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Elbo Room
Over in Lisbon, you can forget baile funk or dubstep — the hottest underground sound right now is kuduro. Originating in...
Ongoing Events
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Friday 10/ 3 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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,...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ CELLspace
Hate Log strives to "transform the accumulation of the mundane into beauty," and the producers achieve that goal with a unique...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Needles & Pens
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park hosts a weekend of live music spread across several stages, each boasting a lineup of world-class talent. Wait,...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Roxie Theater
The curators of Dead Channels never fail to fully exploit — or graphically illustrate — the many senses of the phrase...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Various locations
The topic of Suckered: Writers Confess a Profound Lack of Judgment, Litquake's star-studded opening night, is eerily prescient, given our country's...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Artists' Television Access
Come and support Artists’ Television Access, a bastion of Bay Area independent arts, during their annual Film & Video festival. Opening...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Friday 10/ 3 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Brava Theater Center
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 3 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
