Events on Friday, February 5
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down and the Thermals w/ Grass Widow
Friday 2/ 5 @ Great American Music Hall
Portland, Oregon basement-dwellers Hutch and Kathy have a chip on their shoulders. As the Thermals, they assail the usual lefty targets....
Help for Haiti: Benefit for Direct Relief Intl. w/ La Plebe + Dead to Me + King City + Love Songs
Friday 2/ 5 @ Slim's
Since 1948, Direct Relief has provided medicines and medical supplies to improve the health of people victimized by poverty,...
irr. app. (ext.): The Final Utterance
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Lab
For the past 12 years, irr. app. (ext.) has been the chrome-plated megaphone for Canadian Matthew Waldron, who has released a...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/ 5 @ Various locations
For ten glorious days, your cup will runneth over as the city salutes one of humankind's oldest libations. The SF Brewer's...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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....
Friday 2/ 5 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Roxie Theater
Rolling into its twelfth year, SF's Independent Film Festival continues to bring the best, finest, and weirdest indie films to the...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Royal NoneSuch Gallery
While not actually available for check out, the miscellany on display in Lending Library — on loan from the likes of...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Friday 2/ 5 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ CounterPULSE
SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Blankspace
Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Yoga & Improvisation Workshop: Sourcing Personal Practice for Performance
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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
Friday 2/ 5 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on...
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking
Friday 2/ 5 @ SOMArts
SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanArt
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 2/ 5 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
