Events on Monday, February 4
Monday 2/ 4 @ Cowell Theater
Referring to himself as a "skeptical empiricist," essayist and scholar Nassim Taleb eschews the universal thinking enforced by Platonic realism. Instead,...
Monday 2/ 4 @ The Independent
Black Mountain's eponymous debut, a brazen amalgamation of the most classic sounds of the late '60s and the '70s, proudly brandished...
Ongoing Events
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Monday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam...
Monday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At...
Monday 2/ 4 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Monday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 4 @ Giant Robot
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,...
Monday 2/ 4 @ Creativity Explored
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,...
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Monday 2/ 4 @ Novellus Theater
High-definition television has made watching sports a uniquely eye-popping experience, though the onscreen graphics and exquisite close-ups sometimes obscure a sense...
Monday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Monday 2/ 4 @ 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...
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Monday 2/ 4 @ Various locations
Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly...
Monday 2/ 4 @ Red Vic
Still one of the most incendiary political films ever made, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers now seems as prescient for...
Monday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
