Events on Friday, January 9

MiDNiTES for MANiACS presents Broken Homes for the Holidays

Film

Broken Homes for the Holidays

Friday 1/ 9 @ The Castro Theatre

Get ready to lose your innocence all over again as MiDNiTES for MANiACs mastermind Jesse Hawthorne Ficks takes you to childhood's... 

San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival Benefit feat. the Crooked Jades and Belle Monroe

Music

San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival Benefit

Friday 1/ 9 @ Cafe du Nord

Formed during a kitchen jam session, the Crooked Jades play charmingly home-brewed Americana. Specializing in contemporary interpretations of pre-radio music, the... 

Ongoing Events

Chantal Akerman

Film

Chantal Akerman

Friday 1/ 9 @ SFMOMA

Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur... 

<em>Sincerity Forever</em>

Theatre

Sincerity Forever

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Test Patterns: Recent Video Work from South Africa</em>

Art

Test Patterns

Friday 1/ 9 @ SF Camerawork

South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of... 

Emil Lukas: <em>Titration</em>

Art

Emil Lukas

Friday 1/ 9 @ Hosfelt Gallery

Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs.... 

<em> L.A. Paint </em>

Art

L.A. Paint

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix</em>

Art

transPOP

Friday 1/ 9 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

In transPOP, 16 artists reveal and restructure the love/hate triangle between Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. This international survey examines... 

<em>The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now</em>

Art

The Art of Participation

Friday 1/ 9 @ SFMOMA

While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Yves Saint Laurent

Special Event

Yves Saint Laurent

Friday 1/ 9 @ de Young Museum

After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... 

<em>Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party</em>

Theatre

Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Ron English: <em>Mythographic Vicissitudes</em>

Art

Ron English

Friday 1/ 9 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery

Shepard Fairey's Obama poster may have made the cover of Time, but street art giant Ron English's campaign portrait — which... 

<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered</em>

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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 Urich: <em>Gone But Not Forgotten</em>

Art

Paul Urich

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Friday 1/ 9 @ SFMOMA

The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... 

Shaun O'Dell: <em>Sound From a Rock</em>

Art

Shaun O'Dell

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Alec Soth: <em>The Last Days of W.</em>

Art: Photography

Alec Soth

Friday 1/ 9 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery

As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled... 

The Shotgun Players present <em>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Friday 1/ 9 @ Ashby Stage

Theatre company Shotgun Players has been bringing cutting-edge productions to the Bay Area for 17 years. It's garnered a solid reputation... 

<em>It's Happening All the Time...</em>

Art

It's Happening All the Time...

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>

Art

The Totoro Forest Project

Friday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Friday 1/ 9 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake...