All events on Wednesday February 20

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Film
Terence Davies
Wednesday Feb 20 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
British filmmaker Terence Davies' much-lauded films are known for their stylistic nostalgia and themes of emotional endurance. Inspired by his experiences growing up in working-class... View details »
Terence Davies
Performing Arts: Dance
Compañía Nacional de Danza
Wednesday Feb 20 (8pm) @ Novellus Theater More times »
Spain's Compañía Nacional de Danza ballet troupe has garnered praise and courted controversy ever since creative director Nacho Duato started moving the decades-old company into... View details »
Compañía Nacional de Danza
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] The Hives
Wednesday Feb 20 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Sold Out!
From death metal to disco, Sweden has no shortage of musical talent. Following the latest batch of the Knife DVDs and José González singles comes... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Hives

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday Feb 20 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ 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)
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Wednesday Feb 20 @ 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
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Wednesday Feb 20 @ 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
Tim Lee
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Paul McCarthy
Wednesday Feb 20 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass... View details »
Paul McCarthy
Art
Gilbert & George
Wednesday Feb 20 @ de Young Museum More times »
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art
Zhan Wang
Wednesday Feb 20 (10:30–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed as a minature example... View details »
Zhan Wang
Art
Jens Haaning
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Art
Finders Keepers
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Wednesday Feb 20 @ 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
Art
Enrique Chagoya
Wednesday Feb 20 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
Enrique Chagoya
Art
Chuck Arnett
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
More Flavor: Festival
SF Indiefest
Wednesday Feb 20 @ Various locations More times »
Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This year, the festival celebrates... View details »
SF Indiefest
Film
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Wednesday Feb 20 @ 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
Art
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Wednesday Feb 20 (noon–5pm) @ Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University More times »
Free
Parsing the multivalent impacts of the prison system on American society, Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America unites disparate artistic practices into a coherent,... View details »
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
More Flavor: Festival
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Wednesday Feb 20 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
With all the media attention surrounding the upcoming presidential election, the war in Iraq, and Britney Spears' latest breakdown, it's easy to forget there is... View details »
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Art
Blackout
Wednesday Feb 20 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division More times »
Anyone who's gone camping or spelunking knows that our senses become heightened in pitch-black darkness. In Root Division's Blackout exhibition, more than a dozen resident... View details »
Blackout
Art
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Deadpan Exchange III
Wednesday Feb 20 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
Free
While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange have somehow breathed non-stop... View details »
Deadpan Exchange III
Art
James Gobel
Wednesday Feb 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and the often ruggedly masculine... View details »
James Gobel
Art
Emory Douglas
Wednesday Feb 20 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory Douglas' incendiary graphic-design work... View details »
Emory Douglas
Art
Jordan Kantor
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Structured Thoughts
Wednesday Feb 20 (10am–6pm) @ Hang Annex More times »
Free
Hang's latest show features pieces from four Bay Area artists whose painting, sculpture, and multimedia works encourage a tactile, visceral exploration of the natural world.... View details »
Structured Thoughts
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Wednesday Feb 20 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture — as an integral element... View details »
The Fabric of Cultures
Art
Bad Moon Rising
Wednesday Feb 20 (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
Art
Jordan Eagles
Wednesday Feb 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood, which at first resemble... View details »
Jordan Eagles
Art
Matt Furie
Wednesday Feb 20 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way of Troma Entertainment's schlocky... View details »
Matt Furie
Art
Drama and Desire
Wednesday Feb 20 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
Drama and                    Desire
Art
Leonora Carrington
Wednesday Feb 20 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
Leonora Carrington
Film
Taxi to the Dark Side
Wednesday Feb 20 @ Landmark Opera Plaza More times »
It's not as if Taxi to the Dark Side tells us anything new about the growing use of torture in US foreign policy; in fact,... View details »
Taxi to the Dark Side