Events on Thursday, February 4
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Academy of Art
Emily Pilloton, founder of humanitarian design studio Project H, hits the road this week with a traveling exhibit of her socially...
Tanya Zimbardo on Howard Fried's Inside the Harlequin: Approach-Avoidance III and II
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
One on One, Curator Talks
Wisdom + Aima the Dreamer + DJ RasCue (Urban Umpires) + J Human
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Slim's
Known to his fans as Wisdom, Tevya Jones was born into a family of musicians and poets in Colorado...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Luc Tuymans, artist
Helen Molesworth, exhibition co-curator and Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Bottom of the Hill
Indiefest is on a tear: Jeff Ross' 12-year-old showcase of innovative and esoteric independent films has already grown to include satellite...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Canadian artist Lucy Pullen, whose oeuvre includes a punny edible intervention riffing on one of Bruce Nauman's greatest hits (Eat Your...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ CounterPULSE
SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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....
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
Rolling into its twelfth year, SF's Independent Film Festival continues to bring the best, finest, and weirdest indie films to the...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Mike Davis creates nightmarish landscapes, both delicate and monstrous, that would make Bosch proud. The self-taught painter and tattoo artist's latest...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Yoga & Improvisation Workshop: Sourcing Personal Practice for Performance
Thursday 2/ 4 @ ODC
This workshop will focus on the vocabulary of yoga and explore the use of improvisation to subvert traditional forms for...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
Miranda Bliss and her sister Lucy Dexter run ‘Fishes and Loaves Christian Catering’ in rural...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
$5 Admission through February 9
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
In this ripped-from-the-headlines drama, gay party regular and aging boy toy Andrew Cunanan is forced...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD DIRECTED BY...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
"The award-winning debut feature film by writer/ director David Oliveras is a tale of two...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
