Events on Thursday, November 6
Thursday 11/ 6 @ The Lab
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but the experimentalists in Thuja prefer to use them as instruments. In addition to...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Supperclub
Tonight, South Asian mixmasters Bobby Friction and DJ Cheb i Sabbah hook up with Project Ahimsa for a night of dhol-banging...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Market Street Gallery
The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Cobb's Comedy Club
Though long adored in England for his onstage antics and hip hyperbole, Russell Brand has yet to truly make his mark...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Wang Bing's newest documentary — a brutal indictment of the sanctioned authoritarianism of Mao's China — derives its power solely from...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Various locations
The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
When he arrived stateside for his latest show, London artist Paul Insect pasted the streets of SF with his signature image:...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous — from cross-dressing Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock-Coit to...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
