Events on Sunday, February 28
Sunday 2/28 @ The Castro Theatre
Brought to you by the same folks who put on the popular Berlin and Beyond film festival comes German Gems, an...
Darkest Americana & Elsewhere IV: Films, Video & Words of James Benning
Sunday 2/28 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Lecture at McBean Theatre (map) James Benning in-person presented in association with the Exploratorium’s Cinema Arts Program
James Benning:...
Ongoing Events
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ Royal NoneSuch Gallery
While not actually available for check out, the miscellany on display in Lending Library — on loan from the likes of...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ Blankspace
Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Sunday 2/28 @ Roxie Theater
David Lynch Presents
A film by Werner Herzog
"Werner Herzog's second fiction feature of 2009 works...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Sunday 2/28 @ Elbo Room
Now 15+ years strong, DUB MISSION is one of the longest-running dub & reggae parties in the U.S., and the world....
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Sunday 2/28 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Sunday 2/28 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Sunday 2/28 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Sunday 2/28 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Sunday 2/28 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 2/28 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
