Events on Tuesday, December 16
Tuesday 12/16 @ Herbst Theater
Quincy Jones' curriculum vitae reads like a pocket guide to the past half century of American music. The '50s saw him...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Hemlock Tavern
San Francisco-based lo-fi pop-punksters the Mantles walk the fine line between grungy rock and melodic pop, drawing equal influences from '60s...
Ongoing Events
NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
Tuesday 12/16 @ Various locations
LA-based nonprofit NextAid is a progressive, hands-on charity that proves, among other things, that ravers are compassionate citizens of the world....
Tuesday 12/16 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Intersection for the Arts
For over 40 years, the Intersection for the Arts’ bread and butter has been breaking down and blurring the barriers between...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Roxie Theater
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Gallery 1988
Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since...
Tuesday 12/16 @ 499 Castro St
One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Creativity Explored
The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
Tuesday 12/16 @ SF Playhouse
We've all wondered just what may have happened between the country's 16th president and his notoriously handsome friends. Now we have...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Tuesday 12/16 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Numerous references and allusions appear throughout Shaun O'Dell's multimedia collages: Zoroastrian symbols, American quilting patterns, ancient Sumerian architecture, the history of...
Tuesday 12/16 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Tuesday 12/16 @ 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 12/16 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Tuesday 12/16 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Tuesday 12/16 @ 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 12/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/16 @ CFI Rafael Film Center
Inuit murder mysteries, zombie-fueled romances, and emasculated bodybuilders are just three of the topics ripe for the picking when a finely...
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tuesday 12/16 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Renowned for his formally innovative writing, the late French author Alain Robbe-Grillet depicts the world with an almost scientific objectivism. His...
Tuesday 12/16 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Tuesday 12/16 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
Tuesday 12/16 @ 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...
