Events on Tuesday, March 11

Lit & Lunch: Edith Grossman

Books: Reading

Edith Grossman

Tuesday 3/11 @ 111 Minna Gallery

The San Francisco-based Center for the Art of Translation hosts Edith Grossman as part of its Lit & Lunch series. Grossman... 

<em>The Driver </em>(1978)

Film

The Driver (1978)

Tuesday 3/11 @ The Castro Theatre

Writer-director Walter Hill is best known for the cult hit The Warriors (1979), but The Driver is his most streamlined action... 

Barn Owl w/ Extra Life and Snowblink

Music

Extra Life

Tuesday 3/11 @ Hemlock Tavern

San Francisco's Barn Owl conjure a sound that genuinely invokes their namesake animal: nocturnal and reasonably menacing, but still warranting a... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America</em>

Art

Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America

Tuesday 3/11 @ Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University

Parsing the multivalent impacts of the prison system on American society, Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America unites disparate artistic... 

<em>My Name Is Albert Ayler</em> (2005)

Film: Documentary

My Name Is Albert Ayler

Tuesday 3/11 @ Red Vic

Though documentaries about cult musicians are a dime a dozen, Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin's documentary portrait of free-jazz genius Albert Ayler... 

An-My L&ecirc;: <em>Small Wars</em>

Art

An-My Lê

Tuesday 3/11 @ SFMOMA

An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... 

<em>Landscape, Nature, and Space</em>

Art

Landscape, Nature, and Space

Tuesday 3/11 @ Bucheon Gallery

Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the... 

<em>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Tuesday 3/11 @ Asian Art Museum

On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... 

Alice Russell

Music

Alice Russell

Tuesday 3/11 @ Mojito

Call her the next British blue-eyed soul export if you want, but Alice Russell doesn't need a trademark look, tabloid troubles,... 

<em>Wicked of the West </em>

Art

Wicked of the West

Tuesday 3/11 @ a.Muse Gallery

Based on The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West reexamines... 

Victor Cartagena: <em>The Invisible Nation</em>

Art

Victor Cartagena

Tuesday 3/11 @ Galería de la Raza

Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration,... 

<em>The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization</em>

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Tuesday 3/11 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art

This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture —... 

James Gobel: <em>Bear Hunting</em>

Art

James Gobel

Tuesday 3/11 @ Marx & Zavattero

Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Tuesday 3/11 @ Various locations

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... 

Katsushige Nakahashi: <em>The Depth of Memory</em>

Art: Photography

Katsushige Nakahashi

Tuesday 3/11 @ SF Camerawork

While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces... 

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Tuesday 3/11 @ Traveling Jewish Theater

When Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, audiences were more accustomed to stark, conceptual writing and avant-garde theatrics than today. The... 

Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 1</em>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Tuesday 3/11 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's... 

Leonora Carrington: <em>The Talismanic Lens</em>

Art

Leonora Carrington

Tuesday 3/11 @ Frey Norris Gallery

Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air,... 

Barbara Takenaga: <em>Paintings</em>

Art

Barbara Takenaga

Tuesday 3/11 @ Gregory Lind Gallery

Mesmerizing fields of color and pattern gently radiate outward from Barbara Takenaga's new series of paintings. While the artist has limited... 

Zhan Wang

Art

Zhan Wang

Tuesday 3/11 @ Haines Gallery

Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed... 

Jeronimo Roldan and Amanda Curreri: <em>You ROYGBIV Me</em>

Art

You ROYGBIV Me

Tuesday 3/11 @ Tartine Bakery

Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently,... 

<em>Small Things End, Great Things Endure</em>

Art

Small Things End, Great Things Endure

Tuesday 3/11 @ New Langton Arts

Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Tuesday 3/11 @ SFMOMA

Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... 

Chris Johanson

Art

Chris Johanson

Tuesday 3/11 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in... 

Annie Leibovitz: <em>A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005</em>

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Tuesday 3/11 @ The Legion of Honor Museum

Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's... 

<em> Lautrec in Leather: Chuck Arnett and the Birth of the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art

Chuck Arnett

Tuesday 3/11 @ GLBT Historical Society

June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... 

Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa

Film

The Films of Pedro Costa

Tuesday 3/11 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

Few filmmakers have elicited as strong and divided a response from critics and cinephiles as Portuguese director Pedro Costa. He isn't... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Tuesday 3/11 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake... 

Matt Furie: <em>Nature Freak</em>

Art

Matt Furie

Tuesday 3/11 @ Jack Fischer Gallery

Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way... 

Jordan Eagles

Art

Jordan Eagles

Tuesday 3/11 @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood,... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Tuesday 3/11 @ de Young Museum

Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...