All events on Tuesday February 05

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Dodie Bellamy
Tuesday Feb 5 (7pm) @ California College of the Arts - San Francisco Campus
Free
Since garnering wide attention with The Letters of Mina Harker — an epistolary reworking of Bram Stoker's Dracula that mixed literary allusion and real-life gossip,... View details »
Dodie Bellamy
Film: Documentary
F is for Phony
Tuesday Feb 5 (7:30pm) @ 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 F is for Phony... View details »
F is for Phony
Music: Rock/Pop
Birds of America
Tuesday Feb 5 (8pm) @ Climate Theater
Local tree-gazers Birds of America play their first San Francisco show in more than a year, an interminable break for those who have grown attached... View details »
Birds of America
Music: Rock/Pop
Uni & the Ding! String Trio
Tuesday Feb 5 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Strumming a pink ukulele, Uni balances between sweet childhood whimsy and grown-up candor. Clothed in colorful outfits that evoke the '40s by way of the... View details »
Uni & the Ding! String Trio

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Art
Douglas Gordon
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday Feb 5 (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)
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Tuesday Feb 5 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Tuesday Feb 5 @ 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
Tuesday Feb 5 @ 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
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–7pm) @ 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
An-My Lê
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Jens Haaning
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Film: Documentary
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Tuesday Feb 5 @ Novellus Theater More times »
High-definition television has made watching sports a uniquely eye-popping experience, though the onscreen graphics and exquisite close-ups sometimes obscure a sense of the immersive reality... View details »
 Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Tuesday Feb 5 @ 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: Architecture/Design
Is It a Fiber Show?
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery More times »
Free
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was put on trial —... View details »
Is It a Fiber Show?
Music: Rock/Pop
Rickie Lee Jones
Tuesday Feb 5 (8:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord More times »
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 pop, blues, and soulful... View details »
Rickie Lee Jones
Art
Chuck Arnett
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Art
Caroline Hwang
Tuesday Feb 5 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
Caroline Hwang
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San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Tuesday Feb 5 @ Various locations More times »
Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is the... View details »
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Film
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Tuesday Feb 5 @ 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
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Tuesday Feb 5 @ 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
Film: Documentary
Black White + Gray
Tuesday Feb 5 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam Wagstaff and some-say-pornographic, others... View details »
Black White + Gray
Art
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Tuesday Feb 5 (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