Events on Thursday, November 5
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Jonathan Safran Foer might be our generation's foremost practitioner of modern folklore: the richly layered three-story structure of his popular debut...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ California College of the Arts
** Presented as part of CCA's Painting Lecture Series Amanda Ross-Ho's reclamation of kitsch domesticity is pierced with mass media...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
A landmark of Taiwanese cinema, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness was inaccessible for many years. Thankully (and nicely timed, too,...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Alternative Tentacles' 30th Anniversary Incest-A-Thon
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Great American Music Hall
As much as a religion-bashin' atheist like Jello Biafra would hate to hear it: God bless him. The Dead Kennedys founder...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Phoenix Theater
Spine-tingling chills abound in The Woman in Black, an old-school ghost story told in classic Victorian style. The tale centers around...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 11/ 5 @ 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....
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Intersection for the Arts
An unlikely, curious, and beautiful patchwork of vignettes ruminating on the future make up the dance-theatre hybrid The Future Project :...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Castle in the Air
You can thank the Victorians for the continuing source of horror and fascination that is the photography of Anne Geddes. OK,...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Roxie Theater
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Roxie Theater
Before 1960 Weequahic High School (WHS) was known as one of the top schools in...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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,...
