Events on Sunday, February 21
Sunday 2/21 @ Book Passage
Book Passage welcomes the Prince of Darkness this afternoon, and we don't mean the devil, but rather Black Sabbath frontman, reality...
Sunday 2/21 @ The Fillmore
Medeski Martin & Wood mix new and classic instrumentation for a savvy experimental jazz sound, and they've been doing it better...
Sunday 2/21 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at the Victoria Theatre (map) presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor Apparent Motion celebrates the art of live image...
Sunday 2/21 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at the Victoria Theatre (map) presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor Apparent Motion celebrates the art of live image...
Sunday 2/21 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
nside the Activists’ Studio returns to the Museum for a second year, featuring a panel moderated by Michael Krasny (host of...
An Evening With Jorma Kaukonen & G.E. Smith
Sunday 2/21 @ Great American Music Hall
In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar,...
Ongoing Events
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ Royal NoneSuch Gallery
While not actually available for check out, the miscellany on display in Lending Library — on loan from the likes of...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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....
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Sunday 2/21 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Sunday 2/21 @ CounterPULSE
SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first...
Sunday 2/21 @ Blankspace
Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that...
Sunday 2/21 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970
Sunday 2/21 @ Roxie Theater
Fri, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 25.
Director Murray Lerner IN PERSON!...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Sunday 2/21 @ Elbo Room
Now entering its 14th year, Dub Mission with DJ/promoter Sep is one of the longest-running dub and reggae parties in the...
Sunday 2/21 @ Roxie Theater
"Flipper was one of the most beloved television characters of all time. But ironically, the...
Sunday 2/21 @ 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...
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Sunday 2/21 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'Push' BY SAPPHIRE
Sunday 2/21 @ Roxie Theater
"Given the sheer audacity and utter authenticity, it comes as no surprise...
