Events on Friday, February 19
Friday 2/19 @ Fox Theater
For the last few years, neo-soul priestess Erykah Badu has been off the pop-music grid, choosing to focus on her other...
Friday 2/19 @ Rickshaw Stop
Come on down to Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell Street) for good eats and drink specials starting at 6 PM. Ride your...
Friday 2/19 @ Elbo Room
SWEET PSYCHOSIS, DEATH VALLEY HIGH, BLUSH MY DEAR (Formerly Apside), GOODBYE GADGET, DJ HEM-DOG
JGB with Melvin Seals & Stu Allen
Friday 2/19 @ Great American Music Hall
Melvin Seals, whose musical roots seep deep into gospel soil, has always been seeking that...
Ongoing Events
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Friday 2/19 @ Various locations
SFMOMA isn't the only cultural institution in town celebrating a milestone this year. In honor of its 40th anniversary the city-run...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Friday 2/19 @ The Castro Theatre
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Friday 2/19 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City....
Friday 2/19 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Before the Internet, another kind of magic — wireless telegraphy, aka radio — made teleportation possible, astoundingly collapsing distance to bring...
Friday 2/19 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Friday 2/19 @ CounterPULSE
SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Creativity Explored
Hold that tiger! Creativity Explored's new exhibit, inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year's regal symbol, has plenty of tigers burning...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Roxie Theater
Bike smut: porn's final frontier or the next logical step for cycle hounds? Either way, the shorts in the third-annual Bike...
Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer
Friday 2/19 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Who is a serial killer beyond his crimes? Perhaps he is someone who feels no compassion. He might start as a...
Friday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 2/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The...
Friday 2/19 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
While well-documented in photography, the eerie picturesque of slick corporate environments has been addressed much less in painting. Cue Rives Granade,...
Friday 2/19 @ Blankspace
Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Friday 2/19 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 2/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Friday 2/19 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Brooklyn-based painter (and San Francisco Art Institute grad) Chris Ballantyne creates strange intersections of the natural and the man-made. But his...
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Friday 2/19 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Friday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
SERJ TANKIAN - ELECT THE DEAD SYMPHONY
Friday 2/19 @ Roxie Theater
On March 16th, 2009, Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock’s most...
Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking
Friday 2/19 @ SOMArts
SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanArt
Friday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ San Francisco Performances
San Francisco Performances and YBCA join together to present celebrated Bangladeshi-British choreographer Akram Khan, who brings Bahok to San Francisco. Named...
Friday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970
Friday 2/19 @ Roxie Theater
Fri, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 25.
Director Murray Lerner IN PERSON!...
Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada
Friday 2/19 @ The Lab
"Alternorthern," curated by Kevin Betram and Jason Gowans, features the work of Sonny Assu, Valerie Boxer, Vincent Chevalier, Brendan Fernandes, Jenny...
Friday 2/19 @ Roxie Theater
Bike Porn 3: Cycle Bound is a collection of short erotic films from various artists....
Friday 2/19 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
