Special Event

Alan Weisman

Wednesday 2/24 @ Herbst Theater

In nonfiction eco-thriller The World Without Us, veteran environmental journalist Alan Weisman explores what would happen if humankind was suddenly wiped... 

Music

Ghost of A Saber Toothed Tiger

Wednesday 2/24 @ The Independent

Sean Lennon's latest project, the mysteriously named Ghost of A Saber Toothed Tiger, finds him and girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl donning... 

Festival: Film

NOISEPOP: Austin, TX: Live Music Capital of the World? (Sneak Preview)

Wednesday 2/24 @ Roxie Theater

Rated: NR    Runtime: 90 mins.
Directed By Nathan Christ

Internationally known as 'The Live Music Capital... 

Music

KUSF presents NOISE POP 2010 w/ FOREIGN BORN, The Fresh & Onlys, Free Energy, The Splinters

Wednesday 2/24 @ Rickshaw Stop

KUSF presents

NOISE POP 2010
w/
FOREIGN BORN
The Fresh... 

Festival: Film

NOISEPOP: P-Star Rising

Wednesday 2/24 @ Roxie Theater

Rated: NR    Runtime: 83 mins.
A Film by Gabriel Noble

At age 9, Priscilla, an adorable yet... 

Art

Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art

Cartier and America

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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.... 

Special Event

Shanghai

Wednesday 2/24 @ Asian Art Museum

By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and... 

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art

Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Wednesday 2/24 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery

Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity... 

Art

Rives Granade

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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,... 

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Wednesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art

Andy Ristaino

Wednesday 2/24 @ Cartoon Art Museum

Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for... 

Art: Photography

Katherine Westerhout

Wednesday 2/24 @ Electric Works

As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside... 

Music

Richard Thompson

Wednesday 2/24 @ Great American Music Hall

RICHARD THOMPSON : Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of 2003's Top 20 Guitarists of all-time and the recent recipient... 

Art

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Wednesday 2/24 @ SOMArts

 SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience span