Events on Monday, December 8
Monday 12/ 8 @ Mezzanine
Despite what the glossies would have you think, there's more to film festivals than red-carpet photo ops and endless bags of...
Monday 12/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Tonight, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players perform a technically dazzling set of experimental works by four maverick composers in Furious...
Ongoing Events
NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
Monday 12/ 8 @ 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....
Monday 12/ 8 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Monday 12/ 8 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Monday 12/ 8 @ 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
Monday 12/ 8 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Monday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 8 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Monday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 8 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Monday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 8 @ Creativity Explored
The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating...
