Events on Friday, November 21
Friday 11/21 @ The Grand Ballroom
Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal have evolved a unique and eclectic musical style that might best be termed "indie glam." Kevin Barnes...
Friday 11/21 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
Nobel Prize-wining author Toni Morrison is perhaps best known for Beloved, her 1988 masterpiece that nakedly plumbed the terrible psychic and...
Friday 11/21 @ The Independent
Born in the Canary Islands and now residing in Barcelona, Pablo Díaz-Reixa (aka El Guincho) draws as much from the beach...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/21 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
When he arrived stateside for his latest show, London artist Paul Insect pasted the streets of SF with his signature image:...
Friday 11/21 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Friday 11/21 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Friday 11/21 @ New Conservatory Theatre
It's all about appearances in As Bees in Honey Drown, a play in which the glitterati flock to anything à la...
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Friday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Landmark Embarcadero
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and...
Friday 11/21 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Friday 11/21 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
As pundits draw parallels between Obama and Lincoln on the evening news, everyone else is brushing up on their 19th-century history,...
Friday 11/21 @ Climate Theater
Last year, W. Kamau Bell's critically acclaimed one-man show turned heads with its candid approach to celebrity racism, social norms, the...
Friday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Roxie Theater
In anticipation of Gus van Sant's new biopic Milk, the Roxie Theater presents a special engagement of The Times of Harvey...
Friday 11/21 @ Scott Richards Contemporary Art
Ever since Robert Rauschenberg challenged the sovereignty of the second dimension in painting by introducing foreign objects into the equation, painters...
Friday 11/21 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
With this collaborative exhibit that opens a dialogue on nutrition education, resource scarcity, and urban homesteading, the Rock Paper Scissors collective...
Friday 11/21 @ The Castro Theatre
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Friday 11/21 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
Friday 11/21 @ La Val's Subterranean Theater
Not only do pizza and beer abound at the La Val's Subterranean Theatre, a speakeasy haven for live performance, but the...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest
Friday 11/21 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
The Palace of Fine Arts transforms into a magnificent dance arena this weekend, serving as host to an international talent show...
Friday 11/21 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Friday 11/21 @ Johansson Projects
Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was...
Friday 11/21 @ Market Street Gallery
The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,...
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
Friday 11/21 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
What better way to snuggle in for a cold holiday season than with some well-curated smut? YBCA film curator Joel Shepard...
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
Friday 11/21 @ Johansson Projects
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone...
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Friday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
The Execution of Precious Memories
Friday 11/21 @ Project Artaud Theater
While he may be best known for his music with Einstürzende Neubauten and the Bad Seeds, Blixa Bargeld is also multimedia...
Friday 11/21 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Friday 11/21 @ 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...
