Events on Saturday, February 14
Saturday 2/14 @ The Castro Theatre
It's appropriate that the Silent Film Festival's winter fest falls on Valentine's Day: both events are filled with gooey sentimentality, awkward...
Ongoing Events
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Saturday 2/14 @ Various locations
"Indie" may have lost some of its meaning, now that every Hollywood studio has specialty divisions dedicated to cranking out smaller-scale...
Saturday 2/14 @ San Francisco Zoo
Don't be like Homer Simpson and confuse monkey-on-monkey loving for monkey-on-monkey violence. Why not have a guide on hand to explain...
Saturday 2/14 @ Rowan Morrison
Deth P. Sun taps into the cartoon worlds of Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, and Moomin to create his own illustrated universe...
International Antiquarian Book Fair
Saturday 2/14 @ San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
Every year, San Francisco hosts the world's largest rare-book fair, an event that brings together hundreds of vendors from around the...
Museum of Broken Relationships
Saturday 2/14 @ Root Division
Croatian curators Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić have an answer to Jimmy Ruffin's pop-charting query, "What becomes of the broken-hearted?" Thanks...
Saturday 2/14 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Saturday 2/14 @ Off-Market Theater
Edward Albee is a keen observer of the human condition, and A Delicate Balance is an ideal showcase for his dissection...
Saturday 2/14 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating...
Saturday 2/14 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ de Young Museum
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," Andy Warhol once quipped. Warhol Live focuses on the artist's...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled...
Saturday 2/14 @ 2nd Floor Projects
In his accompanying note to an uneven dozen broken hearts, underground filmmaker George Kuchar writes of his friend, former lover, and...
Saturday 2/14 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Saturday 2/14 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 2/14 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ Victoria Theatre
Almost overnight, John Cameron Mitchell's wickedly clever and heartbreaking musical Hedwig & the Angry Inch attained cult status. A few years...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
Saturday 2/14 @ 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...
