Events on Friday, February 26

All My Pretty Ones w/ Nathanael Trimboli Singers

Music

All My Pretty Ones

Friday 2/26 @ The Make-Out Room

With both an oboe and an upright bass among their arsenal, locals All My Pretty Ones create a wistful, amber-colored musical... 

Listed presents Rebel Rave w/ Damian Lazarus, Jamie Jones, Deniz Kurtel and Mike Khoury

Music: DJ

Damian Lazarus

Friday 2/26 @ Mighty

Crosstown Rebels label honcho Damian Lazarus is showcasing some of his best and brightest signers tonight at the kickoff party for... 

Darkest Americana & Elsewhere I: Films, Video & Words of James Benning

Film

Darkest Americana & Elsewhere I: Films, Video & Words of James Benning

Friday 2/26 @ San Francisco Cinematheque

Screening at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (map) presented in association with the Film Studies Program at the University of... 

Darkest Americana & Elsewhere II: Films, Video & Words of James Benning

Film

Darkest Americana & Elsewhere II: Films, Video & Words of James Benning

Friday 2/26 @ San Francisco Cinematheque

Screening at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (map) presented in association with the Film Studies Program at the University... 

Dogman Joe, La Gente

Music

Dogman Joe, La Gente

Friday 2/26 @ Elbo Room

 DOGMAN JOE, LA GENTE, JUSTIN ANCHETA

Noise Pop 2010: Wallpaper + The Limousines + Butterfly Bones + Battlehooch

Music: Electronic

Noise Pop 2010: Wallpaper + The Limousines + Butterfly Bones + Battlehooch

Friday 2/26 @ Slim's

Please note that Slim's is not handling the ticketing for this show. Tickets are available via www.noisepop.com

Music: DJ

Noise Pop DANCE PARTY

Friday 2/26 @ Rickshaw Stop

Noise POP DANCE PARTY w/ DJ sets by members of Wallpaper, Rainbow Arabia, Tempo No Tempo, The Splinters  ... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 &ndash; Present</em>

Art

Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

Dan Hoyle's <em>The Real Americans</em>

Theatre

The Real Americans

Friday 2/26 @ The Marsh

Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much... 

Luc Tuymans

Art

Luc Tuymans

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA

Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with... 

<em>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

Rives Granade: <em>Love Force</em>

Art

Rives Granade

Friday 2/26 @ 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,... 

Steuart Pittman: <em>Nowhere / Anywhere</em>

Art

Nowhere / Anywhere

Friday 2/26 @ Blankspace

Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that... 

<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer</em>

Theatre

Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino

Art

Andy Ristaino

Friday 2/26 @ Cartoon Art Museum

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

Katherine Westerhout: <em>Rust Belt</em>

Art: Photography

Katherine Westerhout

Friday 2/26 @ Electric Works

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

Kirk Crippens: <em>Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession</em>

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery

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

Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Friday 2/26 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,... 

Chris Ballantyne: <em>Some Songs from the Shore</em>

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Friday 2/26 @ 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: <em>Article X</em>

Art

David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis

Friday 2/26 @ Johansson Projects

In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high... 

<em>Cartier and America</em>

Art

Cartier and America

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Doubt: A Parable</em>

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

Ahmet &Ouml;ğ&uuml;t: <em>Exploded City</em>

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Friday 2/26 @ 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.... 

Kamau Patton: <em>Icons of Attention</em>

Art

Kamau Patton

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Friday 2/26 @ Asian Art Museum

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

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

W. Kamau Bell's <em>Blacktastic Black History Month Blacktacular... Black!</em>

Theatre

Blacktastic Black History Month Blacktacular... Black!

Friday 2/26 @ Stage Werx

A self-proclaimed "professional talker," comedian, thespian, and fly-in-the-ointment W. Kamau Bell has a merciless wit and a genuine sincerity whenever he... 

<em>Route 1: R for Replicant</em>

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain</em>

Art

Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain

Friday 2/26 @ 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

Dispatches from the Archives

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the... 

Focus on Artists

Art

Focus on Artists

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA

From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Friday 2/26 @ Roxie Theater

David Lynch Presents
A film by Werner Herzog

"Werner Herzog's second fiction feature of 2009 works... 

Ewan Gibbs: <em>San Francisco</em>

Art

Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA

This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan... 

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Art

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Friday 2/26 @ The Lab

"Alternorthern," curated by Kevin Betram and Jason Gowans, features the work of Sonny Assu, Valerie Boxer, Vincent Chevalier, Brendan Fernandes, Jenny... 

The View from Here

Art

The View from Here

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA

Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has... 

Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West

Theatre

Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West

Friday 2/26 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,... 

People's Torah

Art

People's Torah

Friday 2/26 @ 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... 

The Anniversary Show

Art

The Anniversary Show

Friday 2/26 @ 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

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Friday 2/26 @ 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

Art

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA

In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit... 

Coming Home

Theatre

Coming Home

Friday 2/26 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD
 DIRECTED BY... 

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Friday 2/26 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced... 

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Art

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Friday 2/26 @ SOMArts

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

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