Events on Wednesday, February 20
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Wednesday 2/20 @ The Fillmore
From death metal to disco, Sweden has no shortage of musical talent. Following the latest batch of the Knife DVDs and...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/20 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Babylon Falling
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Various locations
Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Wednesday 2/20 @ The Lab
While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
British filmmaker Terence Davies' much-lauded films are known for their stylistic nostalgia and themes of emotional endurance. Inspired by his experiences...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Wednesday 2/20 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Wednesday 2/20 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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'...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Novellus Theater
Spain's Compañía Nacional de Danza ballet troupe has garnered praise and courted controversy ever since creative director Nacho Duato started moving...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Hang Annex
Hang's latest show features pieces from four Bay Area artists whose painting, sculpture, and multimedia works encourage a tactile, visceral exploration...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
