Events on Tuesday, November 18
Tuesday 11/18 @ The Castro Theatre
Tony Curtis was the golden price of Hollywood's Golden Age, and the story of how Bernard Schwartz, a nice Jewish boy...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Bottom of the Hill
The appeal of folkie Jay Brannan's brazen, over-the-top emoting is somewhat inexplicable, because despite the slick packaging, the singer's unapologetic embrace...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/18 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
August Wilson's series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, is the most ambitious and critically successful attempt ever to stage the...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
When he arrived stateside for his latest show, London artist Paul Insect pasted the streets of SF with his signature image:...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Landmark Embarcadero
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Tuesday 11/18 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear quickly dispenses with woodworking's crafty, small-scale reputation. Monumental in size, Puryear's abstract...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Market Street Gallery
The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,...
Tuesday 11/18 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Tuesday 11/18 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
In a devastating display of nature's fury, Chile's Chaitén volcano erupted last May, spewing plumes of roiling ash that generated dense...
