Events on Thursday, November 19
Thursday 11/19 @ Rickshaw Stop
Turn a Lemur controller and a Casio keyboard loose inside a 1980s fun house, then invite a Commodore-64 over to play,...
Conversation with Isabella Rossellini
Thursday 11/19 @ City Arts & Lectures
A consummate maverick, Isabella Rossellini boasts a CV that encompasses lengthy stints as an actress (most notably portraying a mysterious nightclub...
Thursday 11/19 @ Bottom of the Hill
Toronto band the Hidden Cameras make wildly original music that's been described by frontman Joel Gibb as "gay church folk music,"...
Deborah Stratman: O’er the Land
Thursday 11/19 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Deborah Stratman in person Screening will be at the SFMOMA (map) Presented in association with the USF Film Studies Program A...
Romney (Nani) Steele on My Nepenthe
Thursday 11/19 @ The Booksmith
Thursday, November 19 ROMNEY (NANI) STEELE My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur 7:30 PM In 2009 Nepenthe...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/19 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA mounts a colorful tribute to the continued influence of the Tropicália movement in Brazilian art. When Lives Become Form explores...
Thursday 11/19 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Peter Bjorn & John w/ El Perro Del Mar
Thursday 11/19 @ Great American Music Hall
The mid-'00s enjoyed an indie-pop revival when three fresh-faced Swedes joined the burgeoning Stockholm music renaissance. Peter Moren, Bjorn Yttling, and...
Thursday 11/19 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Thursday 11/19 @ San Francisco Public Library
The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk...
Thursday 11/19 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Thursday 11/19 @ Off-Market Theater
Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny....
Thursday 11/19 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Thursday 11/19 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Thursday 11/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild...
Thursday 11/19 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
Thursday 11/19 @ SF Playhouse
A Rubik's cube of shifting love allegiances and convoluted gender bending, David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy is a breezy, mischievous...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 11/19 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Thursday 11/19 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Thursday 11/19 @ CounterPULSE
CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora Festival gives space to 13 performers who are innovating and experimenting within a range of traditional dance forms,...
Thursday 11/19 @ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...
Thursday 11/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Thursday 11/19 @ Roxie Theater
Official 2009 Sundance selection Art & Copy captures an inside look at the real people behind pop culture's most iconic advertisements....
Thursday 11/19 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 11/19 @ David Brower Center
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed...
Thursday 11/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Thursday 11/19 @ California College of the Arts
Reception: Tues., Sept. 22, 6:30–8:30 p.m. An eclectic group of 32 international artists, including Damián Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska,...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 11/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Thursday 11/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Thursday 11/19 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Thursday 11/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Thursday 11/19 @ Asian Art Museum
In the 19th-century Siam and Burma—two neighboring kingdoms in Southeast Asia—were renowned for their golden-roofed temples, lush gardens, and handsomely adorned...
Thursday 11/19 @ SOMArts
SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery presents Unfurling: This Land, a group show featuring Mark Bode, Mike Dingle and Isabel Rucker, producing new work...
Thursday 11/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
