Entertainment Calendar

The next time your travels take you through terminal two at the San Francisco Airport, download the new public art audio tour to your mp3 player or Smartphone, available for free from iTunes. The experience ... -- Christian L. Frock, SFArts.org

Cantor Museum's latest addition to its outdoor sculpture garden is "Sequence," a monumental sculpture forged from 200 tons of contoured steel by Bay Area artist Richard Serra; it's on display for the first time since ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

Rufino Tamayo's red and blue, 32-foot-tall "Conquest of Space" (1983) was originally installed at SFO's Terminal 2 when the artist was 84. It comes out of storage after 4 years and is reinstalled outside of ... -- Betsy Crabtree, SFArts.org

In photos, documents and videos, this exhibition illustrates how an innovative, pioneering spirit and a yearning for social justice gave Jews the confidence to forge their own destiny and reinvent themselves in the Golden State, ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

The Mexican Museum in Fort Mason spotlights its Tequila Don Julio Collection, a new aquisition featuring contemporary art by renowned contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American artists, including Ray Martin Abeyta, Tania Candiani, Camille Rose Garcia, Jorge ... -- Betsy Crabtree, SFArts.org

SFJAZZ's season is an embarrassment of riches, showcasing myriad masters of jazz, fusion, world music and more, like South Africa's sublime Ladysmith Black Mambazo, guitar great Bill Frissell, Flamenco legend Paco de Lucia and the ... -- Laura Fraenza, SFArts.org

As winter's chill sets in, it's good to know there are cozy places to hunker down for a story. Curiosity for Kids, little sister to Paxton Gate, is a cool spot to shop while your ... -- Stephanie Chastain, SFArts.org

Alluding to the urban landscape, gender, race and class, this exhibition focuses on installations, paintings and monumental collages on canvas, made from expertly manipulated, salvaged materials, and early works influenced by his family's beauty parlor ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

Featuring artworks by Rossetti, Whistler and others, this show investigates the evolution of the British Aesthetic Movement, from its beginnings among a coterie of forward-thinking artists and poets through the achievements of architects and painters ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

Subtitled "New California Art circa 1970," this in-depth survey--part of Pacific Standard Time--highlights works by 60 artists and collectives, including Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Lynn Hershman, and Ed Ruscha, who were affiliated with California's Conceptual ... -- Betsy Crabtree, SFArts.org

Creatures of the natural world--some with courtship rituals that are promiscuous, lethal, downright hostile, or all of the above--propagate in strange and mysterious ways. Sex change, cannibalism, elaborate mating dances and more are covered in ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

In his indictment of the failed economy, SF-based artist John-Mark Ikeda deconstructs the uniform of the upwardly mobile, stripping an iconic symbol of power and success to its essential elements and then pinning it to ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

The Cantor Museum on Stanford's campus has an impressive 200 works by Rodin, among them a cast of "The Thinker," which was first created in a smaller size for the artist's masterpiece, "The Gates of ... -- Betsy Crabtree, SFArts.org

A look back at the '60s & '70s counterculture and the UC Davis art department, where transgressive, irreverent mavericks like Robert Arneson, William T. Wiley, Roy De Forest and others parodied the pretensions of the ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

Best known for his intense, brooding paintings, Lobdell, who early in his career was influenced by abstract expressionist Clyfford Still, has recently focused on vibrantly colorful fantasy images. His dreamy landscapes, full of longing and ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org

High above SF, a temporary rustic cabin occupies one of the city's last remaining unclaimed public spaces, in the air space above and between other properties. The Graue Family Foundation has funded a new art ... -- Christian L. Frock, SFArts.org

Dutch graphic artist Parra--perhaps best- known for collaborations with Nike and InCase--commandeers SFMOMA's second-floor landing with a post-Pop-style mural featuring his distinctive cartoon-like characters and free-form typography; his first museum show in the U.S. -- Betsy Crabtree, SFArts.org

The newly revamped ZYZZYVA, the literary journal featuring West Coast writers and authors, teams up with Litquake to celebrate the release of its latest issue. Readers include recent Stegner Fellow Rob Ehle, Peter Orner ("Love ... -- Evan Karp, SFArts.org

Though 60 years since their apex, the legacy of San Francisco Beats lives on in literature and art. Meridian Gallery's exhibition features works by William Saroyan, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman and Jess. Visit ... -- Betsy Crabtree, SFArts.org

An early leader in the fight for gay and lesbian rights, Hay, who died in 2002, was a transformational figure whose legacy is remembered fondly in an exhibition that brings him to life on the ... -- Sura Wood, SFArts.org