Events on Friday, February 20
Friday 2/20 @ Books Inc.
T. Coraghessan Boyle is as prolific as he is hilarious: with over 20 books of fiction, several short-story collections, and an...
Friday 2/20 @ The Stud
Listen up, all you mangy curs, back-alley cats, rats with wings, and filthy furballs: the forces behind the Monday-night craft-drag spectacular...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/20 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Photographer Lauren Dukoff began chronicling the world of Devendra Banhart when the two were still teens. She was the candid and...
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Friday 2/20 @ Various locations
"Indie" may have lost some of its meaning, now that every Hollywood studio has specialty divisions dedicated to cranking out smaller-scale...
Museum of Broken Relationships
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ 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 2/20 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ Off-Market Theater
Edward Albee is a keen observer of the human condition, and A Delicate Balance is an ideal showcase for his dissection...
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ 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 2/20 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating...
Friday 2/20 @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
Friday 2/20 @ The Fillmore
Just as Joanna Newsom hearts the harp, chanteur Andrew Bird vanquishes the violin. Not only does Bird (signed to Ani DiFranco's...
Friday 2/20 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Friday 2/20 @ 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
Friday 2/20 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Friday 2/20 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
The large-scale oil paintings and watercolors in Yan Pei-Ming's first West Coast show bear the scars of an ongoing struggle with...
Friday 2/20 @ Gallery 16
In a time when technology often overshadows conventional art forms, the work of SF-based artist Elliot Anderson seamlessly merges the techno-savvy...
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
