Events on Friday, March 14
Friday 3/14 @ Hemlock Tavern
With countless releases on CD-R and vinyl (many adorned with their namesake's ink), Magik Markers have built a sizable catalog of...
Friday 3/14 @ Mighty
The hypnogogic, Bridget Riley-inspired cover art of Audion's first few 12-inches was the perfect visual analog to their twisted, acid-spattered techno...
Friday 3/14 @ Artists' Television Access
Local underground filmmaker Antero Alli has quietly amassed a lengthy filmography over the last decade, working roughly at the pace of...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/14 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Friday 3/14 @ Lumiere Theatre
For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this...
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Friday 3/14 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Friday 3/14 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Friday 3/14 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Friday 3/14 @ 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 —...
Friday 3/14 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Friday 3/14 @ 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,...
Friday 3/14 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
Friday 3/14 @ 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,...
Friday 3/14 @ Silverman Gallery
Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes...
Friday 3/14 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
Friday 3/14 @ Queen's Nail Annex
Four Walls founder Julie Deamer organized Ukrainian Citizens and Strangers, an impressive collaboration between nine American and Ukrainian artists. Filled with...
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Friday 3/14 @ Various locations
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of...
Friday 3/14 @ Berkeley Art Museum
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to...
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Friday 3/14 @ 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,...
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Friday 3/14 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
Friday 3/14 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments....
Friday 3/14 @ Intersection for the Arts
Award-winning theatre ensemble Campo Santo has been bringing innovative productions to the Bay Area for more than a decade now. The...
Friday 3/14 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Friday 3/14 @ 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,...
Friday 3/14 @ 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...
