Events on Tuesday, March 11
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Tuesday 3/11 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
