Events on Friday, January 23
Friday 1/23 @ Bottom of the Hill
Awash in naïve, everygirl croons and minimalist electronics, lo-fi duo High Places toe the line between Animal Collective's artifice and Beat...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/23 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Paul Urich, FecalFace.com's first featured artist, returns to his old stomping ground for an exhibition of new work. Driven by the...
Friday 1/23 @ Various locations
Something funny is happening in our city, and it has nothing to do with Gavin Nusom's hair. Sketchfest returns with 16...
Friday 1/23 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Friday 1/23 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
Friday 1/23 @ Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases...
Friday 1/23 @ Punch Line
He may not have the swagger of Kanye, but comedian Aziz Ansari definitely one-ups the rapper on rollerblading skills. Mounting his...
Friday 1/23 @ The Castro Theatre
The Noir Fest is back, with a gritty lineup of double bills designed to recreate a trip to the cinema of...
It's Happening All the Time...
Friday 1/23 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Groupthink might seem antithetical to artistic practice, but Rock Paper Scissor Gallery's first show of the new year assembles an intriguing...
Friday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Friday 1/23 @ 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...
Friday 1/23 @ Headlands Center for the Arts
The Headlands Center for the Arts' Residency Program has provided a removed perch for California artists, letting them draw on the...
Friday 1/23 @ Red Vic
An incredible soundtrack — for instance, one laden with melancholic tracks from Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Tears for...
Friday 1/23 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
The Walker Brothers were one of the biggest pop sensations of the 1960s; Scott Walker's shaggy hair and baritone croon made...
Friday 1/23 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sleek, colorless efficiency be damned; Irreverent presents two sides of the new Scandinavian art. Blending homage to traditional materials and processes...
Friday 1/23 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Friday 1/23 @ 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...
Friday 1/23 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Friday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Friday 1/23 @ 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...
Friday 1/23 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book adds an international spin to its venerable collection of artists' books with Wings for...
Friday 1/23 @ American Conservatory Theater
John Guare is best known for introspective works such as The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, but...
Friday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Friday 1/23 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
Shepard Fairey's Obama poster may have made the cover of Time, but street art giant Ron English's campaign portrait — which...
Friday 1/23 @ 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...
Friday 1/23 @ Rowan Morrison
Deth P. Sun taps into the cartoon worlds of Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, and Moomin to create his own illustrated universe...
Friday 1/23 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled...
