All events on Friday February 01

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Film: Documentary
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Friday Feb 1 @ Novellus Theater More times »
High-definition television has made watching sports a uniquely eye-popping experience, though the onscreen graphics and exquisite close-ups sometimes obscure a sense of the immersive reality... View details »
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Film
Raising Caine
Friday Feb 1 (6:30pm) @ Mechanic's Institute Library More times »
With his affable good looks and distinctive cockney accent, Michael Caine has gone from being a '60s pop icon to a highly seasoned actor. Nominated... View details »
Raising Caine
Music: Rock/Pop
Mark Olson
Friday Feb 1 (8pm) @ 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 soul on classic albums... View details »
Mark Olson
More Flavor: Festival
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Friday Feb 1 @ Various locations More times »
Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is the... View details »
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Film
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Friday Feb 1 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is to seek an illegal... View details »
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Film: Documentary
Black White + Gray
Friday Feb 1 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam Wagstaff and some-say-pornographic, others... View details »
Black White + Gray
Music: Rock/Pop
Jessie Evans
Friday Feb 1 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Giveaway
Former dark-wave daughter Jessie Evans (of defunct goth-punks Subtonix) returns to the coast after roosting in Berlin, where she channeled the German capital's infamous cabaret... View details »
Jessie Evans
More Flavor: Party
Gemini Disco
Friday Feb 1 (10pm) @ Mighty
Tireless party impresarios Le Dinosaur and Christopher McVick — who previously brought San Francisco's disco devotees to Paradise — have joined forces with Honey Sound... View details »
Gemini Disco

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Friday Feb 1 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
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' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Douglas Gordon
Friday Feb 1 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
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Olafur Eliasson
Friday Feb 1 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday Feb 1 (9:30am–8:45pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
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Lucy McKenzie
Friday Feb 1 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Friday Feb 1 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Friday Feb 1 @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
Persepolis
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Friday Feb 1 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould can't decide between producing... View details »
Speed-the-Plow
Art
In the Fullness of Time
Friday Feb 1 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades as a respected venue... View details »
In the Fullness of Time
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Friday Feb 1 @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping the radical discourses that... View details »
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Art
Boomerang
Friday Feb 1 (11am–6pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery More times »
Free
True to its title, Mario Lemos and Laurie O'Brien's intimate exhibit Boomerang traces a parabolic path connecting a wide swath of Bay Area artists, rebounding... View details »
Boomerang
Art
Tim Lee
Friday Feb 1 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Art
An-My Lê
Friday Feb 1 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Jens Haaning
Friday Feb 1 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His daring conceptual works toy... View details »
Jens Haaning
Art
Andrew Moore
Friday Feb 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery More times »
Free
Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling walls and hollow interiors... View details »
Andrew Moore
Film
Noir City Film Festival
Friday Feb 1 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As with earlier incarnations, ten... View details »
Noir City Film Festival
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Friday Feb 1 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces hint at the easily... View details »
Katsushige Nakahashi
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Finders Keepers
Friday Feb 1 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late, great Cornell, the participants... View details »
Finders Keepers
Film
African Film Festival
Friday Feb 1 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night belongs to Abderrahmane Sissako's... View details »
African Film Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lydia's Funeral Video
Friday Feb 1 (8pm) @ The Dark Room More times »
Visions of the not-so-distant future usually connote alien invasions, zombie attacks, or at least some presidential administration shake-ups, but local actress, musician, playwright, and stand-up... View details »
Lydia's Funeral Video
Art: Architecture/Design
Is It a Fiber Show?
Friday Feb 1 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery More times »
Free
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was put on trial —... View details »
Is It a Fiber Show?
Art
Chuck Arnett
Friday Feb 1 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
Chuck Arnett
Art
Conduits of Labor
Friday Feb 1 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
Conduits of Labor
Art
Caroline Hwang
Friday Feb 1 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
Caroline Hwang
Art
Enter the Center
Friday Feb 1 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery More times »
Free
For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the umbrella of Ribbons Publications,... View details »
Enter the Center
Art
An Equal Playing Field
Friday Feb 1 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement to reconcile with his... View details »
An Equal Playing Field
Art
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Friday Feb 1 (noon–6pm) @ New Langton Arts More times »
Free
Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, this show demonstrates that... View details »
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Art
Jordan Kantor
Friday Feb 1 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves... View details »
Jordan Kantor
Art
Bad Moon Rising
Friday Feb 1 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising continues the sentiment that... View details »
Bad Moon Rising