Events on Monday, November 24

Anne Pasternak:  <em>Public Art and Media: From Spectacle to Political</em>

Special Event

Anne Pasternak

Monday 11/24 @ UC Berkeley Campus

Public art tends to get a bad rap, thanks to the many sculptural eyesores and boondoggles passed off as beautification projects... 

Rosebuds w/ Magic Bullets and Jonah Ray

Music

Rosebuds

Monday 11/24 @ The Independent

One of many bands causing a musical renaissance in Raleigh, NC, the Rosebuds might be the most eclectic of the bunch.... 

Deerhunter w/ Times New Viking

Music

Deerhunter

Monday 11/24 @ Great American Music Hall

Bradford Cox, the lanky frontman and curious creative force behind Deerhunter, has done it again. Upping the ante on their own... 

Ongoing Events

Dame Edna Everage: Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour

Performing Arts

Dame Edna Everage

Monday 11/24 @ Post Street Theatre

Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... 

The Hold Steady w/ Drive By Truckers

Music

The Hold Steady

Monday 11/24 @ The Fillmore

Brooklyn's the Hold Steady have come a long way from their roots in legendary Minneapolis indie-rock outfit LFTR PLLR. The self-declared... 

<em>Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered</em>

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Monday 11/24 @ 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... 

<em>Joe Turner's Come and Gone</em>

Theatre

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Monday 11/24 @ 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... 

<em>Stolen Land: New Works by Other</em>

Art

Stolen Land

Monday 11/24 @ Needles & Pens

Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... 

<em>As Above So Below</em>

Art

As Above So Below

Monday 11/24 @ 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... 

<em>Recollections: Celebrating 30 Years of SCRAP</em>

Special Event

Recollections

Monday 11/24 @ Market Street Gallery

The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,... 

<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Monday 11/24 @ SFMOMA

The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... 

<em>Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship</em>

Art

Banned and Recovered

Monday 11/24 @ 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... 

<em>The Times of Harvey Milk</em> (1984)

Film: Documentary

The Times of Harvey Milk

Monday 11/24 @ Roxie Theater

In anticipation of Gus van Sant's new biopic Milk, the Roxie Theater presents a special engagement of The Times of Harvey... 

<em>The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now</em>

Art

The Art of Participation

Monday 11/24 @ SFMOMA

While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... 

<em> Lola Montes </em> (1955)

Film

Lola Montes

Monday 11/24 @ The Castro Theatre

With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,... 

<em>Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900</em>

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Monday 11/24 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Monday 11/24 @ 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...