Events on Tuesday, December 9
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
When Bruce Conner passed away this past July, San Francisco lost one of its great artistic forces and longtime countercultural figures....
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Slim's
If the Strokes is the tree, Fabrizio Moretti's new side project, Little Joy, doesn't fall far from it. Rodrigo Amarante's (Los...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Rickshaw Stop
Dressy Bessy, quite simply, are all about having a good time. The playful tone this Denver-based collective adopts has bubbled over...
Ongoing Events
NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Creativity Explored
The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
