Events on Thursday, February 5
Thursday 2/ 5 @ Commonwealth Club
If you're a proud member of the Facebook group "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," Neil deGrasse Tyson...
Ongoing Events
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Thursday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Thursday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
For several years, experimental Mexican theatre company Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes mulled the proper way to present the history of the...
Thursday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Thursday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ American Conservatory Theater
John Guare is best known for introspective works such as The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, but...
Thursday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
