Events on Thursday, January 21
Black Lips w/ Nobunny and Personal & the Pizzas
Thursday 1/21 @ Great American Music Hall
With a sound falling somewhere in between New York 70s punk and 50s surf, Atlanta band the Black Lips brings its...
Know Your World: An Evening with the Prelinger Archive
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
Rick Prelinger has saved over 60,000 advertising, classroom, industrial, and amateur films from obscurity, methodically rescuing valuable filmstrips from the trash...
Rudolf Frieling on Bruce Conner's THREE SCREEN RAY
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
One on One, Curator Talks
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Thursday 1/21 @ Great American Music Hall
To observe Ra Ra Riot on stage is to observe a joyful experience in progress, somehow both intensely fun and just...
Amidst: Concert Series w/ Shelley Hirsch, Flo Kaufmann, and Ursula Scherrer
Thursday 1/21 @ The Lab
The Lab presents "Amidst" in conjunction with swissnex San Francisco. Hirsch, Kaufmann, and Scherrer collaboratively manipulate the space. Unintended narratives unfold...
Ethan Watters / CRAZY LIKE US: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Thursday 1/21 @ The Booksmith
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Anti-Flag + Aiden + Cancer Bats + Broadway Calls
Thursday 1/21 @ Slim's
The first Anti-Flag release on L.A. based label SideOneDummy starts off fast and furious as Chris #2 takes aim...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/21 @ Various locations
Something funny is happening in our city, and it has nothing to do with the Mayor's hair. Sketchfest returns with 16...
Thursday 1/21 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
From George Washington's cherry tree chop to the sale of Manhattan for a pocketful of beads, American history is full of...
Thursday 1/21 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA mounts a colorful tribute to the continued influence of the Tropicália movement in Brazilian art. When Lives Become Form explores...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 1/21 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Thursday 1/21 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Canadian artist Lucy Pullen, whose oeuvre includes a punny edible intervention riffing on one of Bruce Nauman's greatest hits (Eat Your...
Thursday 1/21 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Thursday 1/21 @ Lumiere Theatre
Romanian cinema's breakout moment began almost five years ago, but if Corneliu Porumboiu's new film, Police, Adjective, is any indication, that...
Thursday 1/21 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
Thursday 1/21 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Thursday 1/21 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Mike Davis creates nightmarish landscapes, both delicate and monstrous, that would make Bosch proud. The self-taught painter and tattoo artist's latest...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 1/21 @ David Brower Center
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed...
Thursday 1/21 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
Claire Jackel: Gravity Always Wins
Thursday 1/21 @ The Lab
In Claire Jackel's new exhibit at the Lab, an inverted, white-paper cityscape hangs close to the ceiling like a stray parade...
Thursday 1/21 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Thursday 1/21 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer...
Amidst: Multichannel Video and Sound Installation
Thursday 1/21 @ The Lab
The Lab presents "Amidst" in conjunction with swissnex San Francisco. Swiss artists Ursula Scherrer and Flo Kaufmann continue their thematic series...
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
CONART CONFIDENTIAL: THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BUBBLE
Thursday 1/21 @ Roxie Theater
"Remember when the global economy was booming? The price of everything was doubling. Oil hit...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Thursday 1/21 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Tyrone Davies: Single Channel Video Work
Thursday 1/21 @ The Lab
In these single-channel video works, Tyrone Davies takes a spare and unloving look at that most ubiquitous and, some might say,...
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Thursday 1/21 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
$5 Admission through February 9
Thursday 1/21 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on...
Thursday 1/21 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and...
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Thursday 1/21 @ Roxie Theater
"Documentary master Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film in a career that has spanned more than that...
Thursday 1/21 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Thursday 1/21 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD DIRECTED BY...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 1/21 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
