Events on Saturday, February 16
Saturday 2/16 @ The Make-Out Room
With Super Tuesday behind us and the presidential election heating up, it's easy to forget that there are other issues at...
Saturday 2/16 @ Mighty
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Saturday 2/16 @ Bottom of the Hill
Singer/songwriter Basia Bulat may look young and earnest on the cover of her Rough Trade debut, Oh My Darling, but don't...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
It's not as if Taxi to the Dark Side tells us anything new about the growing use of torture in US...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Saturday 2/16 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air,...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Saturday 2/16 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ Various locations
Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This...
Saturday 2/16 @ Berkeley Art Museum
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to...
Saturday 2/16 @ The Lab
While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Saturday 2/16 @ Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
Parsing the multivalent impacts of the prison system on American society, Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America unites disparate artistic...
Saturday 2/16 @ Hang Annex
Hang's latest show features pieces from four Bay Area artists whose painting, sculpture, and multimedia works encourage a tactile, visceral exploration...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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'...
Saturday 2/16 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Saturday 2/16 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
With all the media attention surrounding the upcoming presidential election, the war in Iraq, and Britney Spears' latest breakdown, it's easy...
Saturday 2/16 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Saturday 2/16 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Saturday 2/16 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way...
Saturday 2/16 @ Triple Base
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture —...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Saturday 2/16 @ Babylon Falling
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory...
Saturday 2/16 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Saturday 2/16 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Saturday 2/16 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Saturday 2/16 @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood,...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ 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...
Saturday 2/16 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
