Events on Thursday, January 29
Thursday 1/29 @ Mighty
Be it the early-'00s dance punk of the Rapture or the old school house revival of Hercules and Love Affair, DFA...
Thursday 1/29 @ 103 Harriet St
While Mary Anne Hobbs' journalistic enthusiasm sometimes reaches hyperbolic heights unknown to listeners of American radio jocks, it's impossible to deny...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/29 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Japan Dance Now is a composite look at a national choreography fascinated with glossy fashion, satirical humor, and the futuristic possibilities...
Thursday 1/29 @ Various locations
Something funny is happening in our city, and it has nothing to do with Gavin Nusom's hair. Sketchfest returns with 16...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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
Thursday 1/29 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Thursday 1/29 @ Rowan Morrison
Deth P. Sun taps into the cartoon worlds of Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, and Moomin to create his own illustrated universe...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ American Conservatory Theater
John Guare is best known for introspective works such as The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, but...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
Shepard Fairey's Obama poster may have made the cover of Time, but street art giant Ron English's campaign portrait — which...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found...
Thursday 1/29 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Thursday 1/29 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ Roxie Theater
With its unique focus on films made with "disposable" devices (cell phones, point-and-shoot cameras, webcams, single-use recorders), the Disposable Film Festival...
Thursday 1/29 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
It's Happening All the Time...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled...
