Events on Tuesday, February 5
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ California College of the Arts - San Francisco Campus
Since garnering wide attention with The Letters of Mina Harker — an epistolary reworking of Bram Stoker's Dracula that mixed literary...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Hemlock Tavern
Strumming a pink ukulele, Uni balances between sweet childhood whimsy and grown-up candor. Clothed in colorful outfits that evoke the '40s...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
With its titular nod to Orson Welles' unreliable documentary on forgery, F for Fake (1974), Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner's book...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Climate Theater
Local tree-gazers Birds of America play their first
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Cafe du Nord
Rickie Lee Jones once described her upbringing as "lower-middle-class-hillbilly-hipster," a social niche that certainly fostered her solid, heartfelt sound. Combining jazz-inflected...
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Giant Robot
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Bucheon Gallery
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Roxie Theater
Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam...
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Various locations
Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ SFMOMA
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping...
