Events on Friday, February 1
Friday 2/ 1 @ Great American Music Hall
Mark Olson's work with Gary Louris in the Jayhawks stands as peak alt-country. The peerless vocal harmonies overlay richly hued country...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Hemlock Tavern
Former dark-wave daughter Jessie Evans (of defunct goth-punks Subtonix) returns to the coast after roosting in Berlin, where she channeled the...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Mighty
Tireless party impresarios Le Dinosaur and Christopher McVick — who previously brought San Francisco's disco devotees to Paradise — have joined...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/ 1 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists'...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Silverman Gallery
Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising...
Friday 2/ 1 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Roxie Theater
Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Triple Base
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement...
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Friday 2/ 1 @ Novellus Theater
High-definition television has made watching sports a uniquely eye-popping experience, though the onscreen graphics and exquisite close-ups sometimes obscure a sense...
Friday 2/ 1 @ SFMOMA
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential...
Friday 2/ 1 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Friday 2/ 1 @ The Luggage Store
Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades...
Friday 2/ 1 @ American Conservatory Theater
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
Friday 2/ 1 @ Giant Robot
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,...
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Friday 2/ 1 @ Various locations
Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Ratio 3
Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Mechanic's Institute Library
With his affable good looks and distinctive cockney accent, Michael Caine has gone from being a '60s pop icon to a...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Friday 2/ 1 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Queen's Nail Annex
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean...
Friday 2/ 1 @ The Castro Theatre
Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As...
Friday 2/ 1 @ SFMOMA
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Rena Bransten Gallery
Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Friday 2/ 1 @ New Langton Arts
Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night...
Friday 2/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Friday 2/ 1 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Friday 2/ 1 @ The Dark Room
Visions of the not-so-distant future usually connote alien invasions, zombie attacks, or at least some presidential administration shake-ups, but local actress,...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday 2/ 1 @ de Young Museum
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as...
Friday 2/ 1 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Friday 2/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
