Night+Day

What Time Is It? The long-silent Ferry Building Clock Tower comes alive every 13 minutes for the next 24 hours with Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo's sound-art sculpture (T)our Time, which draws on elements from water, air, earth, and fire. The installation begins sounding off at 5 p.m. tonight at Market and Embarcadero. The free event marks the arrival of the annual arts festival Making Waves. Call 431-9962 for more information.

tuesday
june 17
Creatures of the Night Bianca, Mick, Liz, Liza, Halston, and Dali exude star power galore in "The Last Party: Nightworld in Photographs," but the photographers who shot them -- Diane Arbus, Helmut Newton, Nan Goldin, Richard Avedon, and Andy Warhol, among them -- are Manhattan A-listers in their own right. The paparazzi, including tabloid demigod Weegee, are also represented in this glamour-drenched survey of nocturnal revelry, with photos dating as far back as the '30s. The show, inspired by author Anthony Haden-Guest's book The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night, can give viewers a taste of the casual sex and drug use of an era long gone. The exhibit opens at 10 a.m. at the Serge Sorokko Gallery, 231 Grant, S.F. Admission is free; call 421-7770.