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Art
Jeremy Blake
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
Free
Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake rose to fame nearly... View details »
Jeremy Blake
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At the Movies
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
It's not often that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is spoken of in the same breath as Akira Kurosawa's Rashômon, but for the... View details »
At the Movies

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Tim Lee
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
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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 his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
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Paul McCarthy
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
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Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass... View details »
Paul McCarthy
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Zhan Wang
Saturday Mar 15 (10:30–5pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed as a minature example... View details »
Zhan Wang
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Chuck Arnett
Saturday Mar 15 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
Chuck Arnett
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Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–4pm) @ Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University More times »
Free
Parsing the multivalent impacts of the prison system on American society, Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America unites disparate artistic practices into a coherent,... View details »
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
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Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ New Langton Arts More times »
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Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, this show demonstrates that... View details »
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
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James Gobel
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–5pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and the often ruggedly masculine... View details »
James Gobel
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Jordan Eagles
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood, which at first resemble... View details »
Jordan Eagles
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You ROYGBIV Me
Saturday Mar 15 @ Tartine Bakery More times »
Free
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently, under curator Brianna Toth,... View details »
You ROYGBIV Me
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Matt Furie
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way of Troma Entertainment's schlocky... View details »
Matt Furie
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Leonora Carrington
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
Leonora Carrington
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Landscape, Nature, and Space
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery More times »
Free
Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the landscape. Fortunately, the curators... View details »
Landscape, Nature, and Space
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Victor Cartagena
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
Victor Cartagena
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Chris Johanson
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
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2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in the Whitney Biennial and... View details »
Chris Johanson
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Barbara Takenaga
Saturday Mar 15 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Mesmerizing fields of color and pattern gently radiate outward from Barbara Takenaga's new series of paintings. While the artist has limited her abstract vocabulary to... View details »
Barbara Takenaga
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Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
Four Walls founder Julie Deamer organized Ukrainian Citizens and Strangers, an impressive collaboration between nine American and Ukrainian artists. Filled with narratives haunted by memories... View details »
Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
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Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
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Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes in a series of... View details »
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough