Events on Thursday, February 12
Thursday 2/12 @ Hemlock Tavern
Local MC Vice Cooler (aka Hawnay Troof) started tweaking out with the XBXRX crew in the late '90s, but though the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/12 @ Off-Market Theater
Edward Albee is a keen observer of the human condition, and A Delicate Balance is an ideal showcase for his dissection...
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Thursday 2/12 @ Various locations
"Indie" may have lost some of its meaning, now that every Hollywood studio has specialty divisions dedicated to cranking out smaller-scale...
Thursday 2/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sleek, colorless efficiency be damned; Irreverent presents two sides of the new Scandinavian art. Blending homage to traditional materials and processes...
Thursday 2/12 @ Rowan Morrison
Deth P. Sun taps into the cartoon worlds of Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, and Moomin to create his own illustrated universe...
Thursday 2/12 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating...
Thursday 2/12 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Thursday 2/12 @ Jancar Jones Gallery
New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of Op Art with the sensual smoothness...
Thursday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Thursday 2/12 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book adds an international spin to its venerable collection of artists' books with Wings for...
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Thursday 2/12 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Don't be misled by its parenthetical title — the early 20th-century ancestor of the Hitachi Magic Wand is only one link...
Thursday 2/12 @ 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 2/12 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Thursday 2/12 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled...
Thursday 2/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Ulrich Seidl spends his time like many dedicated biologists, rooting around in the Earth's cesspools in search of life's truths and...
Thursday 2/12 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Thursday 2/12 @ Cartoon Art Museum
The soon-to-be-released film Coraline, a 3-D stop motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's children's horror novella, may feature the most disturbed use...
Thursday 2/12 @ 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...
Thursday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Thursday 2/12 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday 2/12 @ 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 2/12 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found...
Thursday 2/12 @ Headlands Center for the Arts
The Headlands Center for the Arts' Residency Program has provided a removed perch for California artists, letting them draw on the...
Thursday 2/12 @ 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...
