Events on Thursday, October 30
Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Festival
Thursday 10/30 @ The Castro Theatre
If you fancy yourself to be the next Jenna Jameson (or hell, the next Paris Hilton, circa One Night in Paris),...
Thursday 10/30 @ Mezzanine
Though they go by many names (2 Many DJs, the Flying Dewaele Brothers), Belgian electro-head brothers David and Stephen Dewaele may...
Thursday 10/30 @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross grew up listening to traditional classical music like Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert; in college, however,...
Ongoing Events
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Thursday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Various locations
The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Hypnodrome
In the "terror and taboo" tradition of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Thrillpeddlers presents an evening of horror-themed one-acts that pit humans...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Thursday 10/30 @ 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...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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...
Thursday 10/30 @ Johansson Projects
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone...
Thursday 10/30 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Fecal Face's Chicago correspondent, Ryan Christian, heads west with a talent pool plucked from all over the map — New York,...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Triple Base
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a...
Thursday 10/30 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Thursday 10/30 @ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...
Thursday 10/30 @ Victoria Theatre
When Rocky Horror first brought its gender-bending antics and rock 'n roll sci-fi to the stage in 1973, it screamed cult...
Thursday 10/30 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Thursday 10/30 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Thursday 10/30 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Thursday 10/30 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday 10/30 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
Thursday 10/30 @ Oakland Metro Operahouse
Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky...
Thursday 10/30 @ 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...
