Events on Tuesday, February 19
Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television
Tuesday 2/19 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
When the rabble-rousing Paper Tiger Television began its crusade of savvy, critical programming in 1981, FOX News was just a glimmer...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Herbst Theater
Neil deGrasse Tyson gave his first astronomy lecture at the age of 15 while still a student at the Bronx High...
Trannyshack's 12-Year Anniversary Bash
Tuesday 2/19 @ The Stud
All good things must come to an end, and so Trannyshack — all but synonymous with Tuesday nights in San Francisco...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Various locations
Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Tuesday 2/19 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Tuesday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Hang Annex
Hang's latest show features pieces from four Bay Area artists whose painting, sculpture, and multimedia works encourage a tactile, visceral exploration...
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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 —...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Babylon Falling
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Tuesday 2/19 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Tuesday 2/19 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
