Events on Thursday, January 8
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Rickshaw Stop
Out on his first US jaunt, wunderkind dubstep producer Zomby hits Rickshaw Stop this evening to showcase his fresh take on...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The initial response to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was notoriously mixed. James Agee's superlative-laced review was the exception, as most American...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
It's Happening All the Time...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
