Events on Friday, February 27
Friday 2/27 @ Great American Music Hall
Twenty-five-year-old Annie Clark tosses out quite the maelstrom of ideas. Luckily, she also has a wholly capable musical persona with which...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/27 @ Moscone Center
With the Alternative Press Expo now in October, SF's comic nerds and sci-fi dorks have only one spring outlet for their...
Friday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Friday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ Intersection for the Arts
As suggested by the colliding adjectives in its title, Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd's theatrical adaptation of Adam Mansbach's novel of...
Friday 2/27 @ SFMOMA
Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur...
Friday 2/27 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Friday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ EXIT Theatre
The local sketch-comedy savants of Killing My Lobster certainly make good on the title of their second full-length play, Pure Shock...
Friday 2/27 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
With its commitment to rebellious, controversial, and often unrepentantly queer work, Strand Releasing may very well be the Grove Press of...
Friday 2/27 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Friday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ The Lab
The eclectic and talented Adam J. Ansell has directed theatre for over 20 years, and in that time, he's fine-tuned a...
Friday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Photographer Lauren Dukoff began chronicling the world of Devendra Banhart when the two were still teens. She was the candid and...
Museum of Broken Relationships
Friday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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...
