All events on Thursday March 20
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David Hajdu
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Thursday Mar 20 (7–9pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum
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Before video games had parents and pundits up-in-arms about America's youth, comic books were public enemy number one. Of course, as author David Hajdu explains... View details »
- Film
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Paul McCarthy Film Series
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Thursday Mar 20 (7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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In Low Life, Slow Life: Part 1, artist Paul McCarthy curates an exhibition of his influences, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and printed matter from his... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Whimsy
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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–10pm) @ RayKo Photo Center
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Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous. The photos share a... View details »
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Propogations
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Thursday Mar 20 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to mind. Hayes' organic, abstract... View details »
- Film
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Mothra and Battle in Outer Space
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Thursday Mar 20 (3:30pm) @ Landmark Clay Theatre
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When they unleashed Godzilla in 1954, director Ishirô Honda and visual-effects guru Eiji Tsuburaya forever changed the way cinema imagined disaster. Their atomic-age kaiju eiga... View details »
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- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Thursday Mar 20 @ Various locations
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Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Paul McCarthy
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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An-My Lê
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
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Gilbert & George
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Thursday Mar 20 @ de Young Museum
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Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
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Friedlander
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
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Zhan Wang
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Thursday Mar 20 (10:30–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery
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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 »
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Enrique Chagoya
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
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Chuck Arnett
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Thursday Mar 20 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society
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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 »
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James Gobel
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Thursday Mar 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero
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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 »
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Annie Leibovitz
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Thursday Mar 20 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
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Jordan Eagles
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Thursday Mar 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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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 »
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You ROYGBIV Me
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Thursday Mar 20 @ Tartine Bakery
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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 »
- Film
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A Girl Is a Gun
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Thursday Mar 20 (6:30pm) @ SFMOMA
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Luc Moullet's rarely screened meta-western stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as a long-haired gunslinger who gets into a tête-à-tête with Rachel Kesterber's tanned seductress. Moullet named King... View details »
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Matt Furie
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery
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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 »
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Drama and Desire
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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–9pm) @ Asian Art Museum
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On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
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Leonora Carrington
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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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 »
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Landscape, Nature, and Space
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery
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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 »
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Victor Cartagena
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Thursday Mar 20 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza
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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 »
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Chris Johanson
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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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 »
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Jeremy Blake
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Thursday Mar 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery
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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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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ODC
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Thursday Mar 20 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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San Francisco's Oberlin Dance Collective has long enjoyed the admiration of international modern dancers and critics alike, impressing with its performers' agility and physical artistry.... View details »
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Barbara Takenaga
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Thursday Mar 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery
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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 »
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Deric Carner
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Thursday Mar 20 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments. Double Heading is full... View details »
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At the Movies
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Thursday Mar 20 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
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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 »
