Events on Sunday, January 25
Sunday 1/25 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
"Classic" Hollywood humor has not always aged well. Routines by the Three Stooges and Abbott & Costello can seem painfully naïve...
Sunday 1/25 @ Cafe du Nord
While Department of Eagles are led by Grizzly Bear guitarist/singer Dan Rossen, it would do the band a great disservice to...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/25 @ Various locations
Something funny is happening in our city, and it has nothing to do with Gavin Nusom's hair. Sketchfest returns with 16...
Sunday 1/25 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ The Castro Theatre
The Noir Fest is back, with a gritty lineup of double bills designed to recreate a trip to the cinema of...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Sunday 1/25 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Sunday 1/25 @ Cartoon Art Museum
The soon-to-be-released film Coraline, a 3-D stop motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's children's horror novella, may feature the most disturbed use...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ Red Vic
An incredible soundtrack — for instance, one laden with melancholic tracks from Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Tears for...
It's Happening All the Time...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Sunday 1/25 @ American Conservatory Theater
John Guare is best known for introspective works such as The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, but...
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
Sunday 1/25 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Sunday 1/25 @ 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...
