Events on Tuesday, February 24
Tuesday 2/24 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
Antony Hegarty's heart-wrenching warble turns soothing strings and minor-key acoustic melodies on their otherwise unassuming core; it's the sound of the...
Tuesday 2/24 @ Rickshaw Stop
The Big Easy meets Eastern Europe at this Mardi Gras fête thrown by Kafana Balkan impresario Zeljko Petkovic (who also doubles...
Tuesday 2/24 @ Mezzanine
Deerhunter's fascination with '50s and '60s pop is palpable, but their more accessible tones are often tempered by the reverb-heavy, post-punk...
Ongoing Events
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating...
Tuesday 2/24 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Tuesday 2/24 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/24 @ 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...
