Events on Friday, November 6
Friday 11/ 6 @ Berkeley Art Museum
While all roads in the contemporary cultural zeitgeist may seem to lead to John Cage, minimalist composer Terry Riley — himself...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Langton Labs
The brainy, creative types at Langton Labs have cooked up a sensory feast for the latest installment of their science, music,...
Friday 11/ 6 @ DNA Lounge
In the world of glitchy, experimental electronic music, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, and Autechre tend to garner the lion's share of...
Friday 11/ 6 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Showing at California College of the Arts (map) Curated and presented by Michael Robinson and presented in association with the Headlands...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 6 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Regency Ballroom
It may have been 19 years since nerdy new wavers Devo released their last proper album, but when they take their...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ CounterPULSE
CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora Festival gives space to 13 performers who are innovating and experimenting within a range of traditional dance forms,...
Friday 11/ 6 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 :...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
Spirited Away is Hayao Miyazaki's inimitable masterpiece. Traveling with her parents (soon to be transformed into pigs), premonitory and morose ten-year-old...
Alternative Tentacles' 30th Anniversary Incest-A-Thon
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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,...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Friday 11/ 6 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Friday 11/ 6 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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,...
Mangos with Chili presents Beloved: A Requiem for Our Dead
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Lab
Through elegies of story, song, dance, drag and more, the Bay Area’s notorious performance crew will honor erased, fallen and slain...
