Latest in Arts

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    Culture Know Your Street Art

    A Seven-Story Provocation in the TL

    Jonathan Curiel Wed., April 8 @ 5:00 P
• Arts Blog

  • Book of Mormon's Billy Harrigan Tighe on How Not to Offend While Being Offensive
  • New on Video: Paré Aplenty in Eddie and the Cruisers and Its Sequel
• Arts Events

  • Visual Arts Film Events & Repertory

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    Are you crazy, or is everybody else impostors all of a sudden, some oddly off versions of themselves? This seems to be an ongoing American question, memorably posed in Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers and several movie adaptations. Tonight the two best — Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1956, and Philip Kaufman's version from 1978 — play together in a double feature, with local treasure Kaufman doing a Q&A. His version is also one of the best San Francisco movies ever made, in which the city goes to hell with a horrifying conspiracy of otherworldly fecundity. As a parable, it holds up, and on this occasion also offers new poignancy in a fine supporting performance from the dear and recently departed Leonard Nimoy as a guru-shrink, among fellow splendid reedy weirdos Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum. It would seem that from the red-scary '50s to the me-decade '70s, and beyond, there's been a constant onslaught of pod people. Are you next? The Invasion of the Body Snatchers double feature starts at 7 p.m. at the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., S.F. $12; 415-863-1087 or roxie.com. More
    Fri., April 10, 7 p.m.
    Roxie Theater
    Jonathan Kiefer
  • Education Museum Exhibits & Events

    Slow Art Day

    Artists from Marcel Duchamp to Ansel Adams have acknowledged that art is an ongoing collaboration between the artist and the shifting experience of every viewer. Sadly, we usually don't hold up our end. Studies, and a few clandestine art critics, have shown that most of us spend just a few seconds with an artwork during our aesthetic sprint through the museum — collapsing with short-attention-span art fatigue soon after, no doubt. Thomas Merton wrote, "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." But such elation comes only with the long view. Enter Slow Art Day. Art institutions on every continent, in places from Uganda to Romania, have selected five pieces to be viewed for at least 10 minutes each. This is a very long time, especially in the face of something beyond our preference, but that is the point. Deep attention engenders discovery. Here, participating venues include SFMOMA Artists Gallery, the Legion of Honor, and the de Young Museum, but the event is not confined to official sites. Just pick a piece of art and really look. Slow Art Day begins at noon at various venues in S.F. Regular museum entry fees; slowartday.org. More
    Sat., April 11
    Multiple San Francisco Locations
    Silke Tudor
• Slideshows

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    A Look Back at December 2014

    December is almost over - the New Year is coming up and everyone is busy drying off from the rain or holiday shopping. Let's take a look at what's happened this month.
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    Cirque du Soleil Returns to San Francisco

    Cirque du Soleil returns to AT&T park with their current production Kurious: Cabinet of Curiosities. Photographs by Richard Haick.