Events on Friday, January 22
Friday 1/22 @ Bottom of the Hill
Appropriately, indie-rock band West Indian Girl were named after a potent strain of acid briefly popular in the mid-'60s, and their...
Friday 1/22 @ Mighty
The Whignomy Brothers' sunset DJ set on Treasure Island last June was surely one of the highpoints of SF dance music...
Jonathan Coulton + Paul & Storm
Friday 1/22 @ Great American Music Hall
Well crafted geek folk-pop. Hilarious but heartbreaking songs about mad scientists, robot armies and self-loathing giant squids....
Kapakahi + Still Time + Jahlectrik + DJ Deedot
Friday 1/22 @ Slim's
What exactly is Kapakahi? Simply put, it’s complicated. Imagine if you kidnapped Sublime, put them on...
PANAMA 3 - Album Release party!
Friday 1/22 @ Elbo Room
Soundway Records and Groove Merchant present
PANAMA 3 record release with...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/22 @ The Castro Theatre
Violating two out of the ten commandments is the MO of this year's Noir City Film Festival, with over 20 films...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio
Christina Mazza and Erik Otto are the latest to join the ranks of resident artists at the SF Dump's jewels-from-junk program,...
Friday 1/22 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ New Conservatory Theatre
Doubt drags so much award hardware behind it, each new staging seems gilded-by-association. Now, the LGBT-friendly New Conservatory Theater is generating...
Friday 1/22 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ Various locations
Something funny is happening in our city, and it has nothing to do with the Mayor's hair. Sketchfest returns with 16...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Friday 1/22 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Claire Jackel: Gravity Always Wins
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 1/22 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Amidst: Multichannel Video and Sound Installation
Friday 1/22 @ The Lab
The Lab presents "Amidst" in conjunction with swissnex San Francisco. Swiss artists Ursula Scherrer and Flo Kaufmann continue their thematic series...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Friday 1/22 @ Roxie Theater
"Documentary master Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film in a career that has spanned more than that...
Friday 1/22 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Friday 1/22 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Friday 1/22 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
CONART CONFIDENTIAL: THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BUBBLE
Friday 1/22 @ Roxie Theater
"Remember when the global economy was booming? The price of everything was doubling. Oil hit...
Tyrone Davies: Single Channel Video Work
Friday 1/22 @ The Lab
In these single-channel video works, Tyrone Davies takes a spare and unloving look at that most ubiquitous and, some might say,...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
$5 Admission through February 9
Friday 1/22 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Friday 1/22 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
Friday 1/22 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Friday 1/22 @ Roxie Theater
"In the bunker of Quentin Tarantino's hypnotically fired-up imagination, World War II features Brad Pitt...
