Events on Friday, February 29
Friday 2/29 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
For artists having a tough time getting their work shown, the second iteration of Bring Your Own Art (Show) is a...
Friday 2/29 @ Fat City
Musicians this talented shouldn't be begging for rent money, but the economy's been sliding — so come help some of the...
Friday 2/29 @ Cafe du Nord
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Friday 2/29 @ Artists' Television Access
Before his untimely death at the age of 40, Wesley Willis amassed a cult following for his music, art, and Batman-hating,...
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Friday 2/29 @ Bottom of the Hill
Far from the domain of one-man laptop bands and sequencer junkies, Holy Fuck draw immediate comparisons to noisy, rhythmic acts like...
Friday 2/29 @ Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
A shining light of the early-'60s coffeehouse circuit, Jim Kweskin sang with an affecting drawl, leading his Jug Band through a...
Ongoing Events
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Friday 2/29 @ 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,...
Friday 2/29 @ 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 —...
Friday 2/29 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
L.Q. Jones' low-budget cult classic A Boy and His Dog takes Harlan Ellison's short story about a post-apocalyptic America and retells...
Friday 2/29 @ 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,...
Friday 2/29 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Friday 2/29 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
Friday 2/29 @ 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'...
Friday 2/29 @ 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...
Friday 2/29 @ 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,...
Friday 2/29 @ Mechanic's Institute Library
With his affable good looks and distinctive cockney accent, Michael Caine has gone from being a '60s pop icon to a...
Friday 2/29 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Friday 2/29 @ 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...
Friday 2/29 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
The orchid, which comes from the largest family of flowering plants and blooms several times a year, holds a particular allure...
Friday 2/29 @ 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...
Friday 2/29 @ 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...
Friday 2/29 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Friday 2/29 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Friday 2/29 @ 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...
Friday 2/29 @ Babylon Falling
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory...
Friday 2/29 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Friday 2/29 @ 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...
Friday 2/29 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Friday 2/29 @ Queen's Nail Annex
Elliott Smith's threadbare songs, personal melancholy, and early death cast a long shadow over his photographic record. In drizzly Portland portraits...
Friday 2/29 @ a.Muse Gallery
Based on The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West reexamines...
Friday 2/29 @ 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...
Friday 2/29 @ Bucheon Gallery
Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the...
Friday 2/29 @ The Lab
While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange...
Friday 2/29 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
