Events on Tuesday, January 13
Tuesday 1/13 @ Herbst Theater
Azar Nafisi has a penchant for ruffling the establishment's feathers, whether it's those of the academic lit community or the Islamic...
Tuesday 1/13 @ Hotel Utah Saloon
Recorded in a New Orleans kitchen, Swedish singer Theresa Andersson's latest album, Hummingbird, Go!, incorporates everything from the tapping of soda...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/13 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Tuesday 1/13 @ 499 Castro St
One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class...
Tuesday 1/13 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear quickly dispenses with woodworking's crafty, small-scale reputation. Monumental in size, Puryear's abstract...
Tuesday 1/13 @ Brava Theater Center
Strong critical reactions are often thought to be signifiers of meaningful art. Well, try this one on for size: Mac Wellman's...
Tuesday 1/13 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Tuesday 1/13 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Numerous references and allusions appear throughout Shaun O'Dell's multimedia collages: Zoroastrian symbols, American quilting patterns, ancient Sumerian architecture, the history of...
Tuesday 1/13 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
Tuesday 1/13 @ SF Playhouse
We've all wondered just what may have happened between the country's 16th president and his notoriously handsome friends. Now we have...
Tuesday 1/13 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Tuesday 1/13 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Tuesday 1/13 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
Shepard Fairey's Obama poster may have made the cover of Time, but street art giant Ron English's campaign portrait — which...
Tuesday 1/13 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
Tuesday 1/13 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled...
Tuesday 1/13 @ Red Vic
Hiroshi Teshigahara's homage to Antonio Gaudí is, like the Spanish architect's own work, as much about form as it is about...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Tuesday 1/13 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Tuesday 1/13 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth...
