Events on Thursday, March 20
Mothra and Battle in Outer Space
Thursday 3/20 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
When they unleashed Godzilla in 1954, director Ishirô Honda and visual-effects guru Eiji Tsuburaya forever changed the way cinema imagined disaster....
Thursday 3/20 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
In Low Life, Slow Life: Part 1, artist Paul McCarthy curates an exhibition of his influences, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and...
Thursday 3/20 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Before video games had parents and pundits up-in-arms about America's youth, comic books were public enemy number one. Of course, as...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/20 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Thursday 3/20 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Thursday 3/20 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
Thursday 3/20 @ Giant Robot
It's not often that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is spoken of in the same breath as Akira Kurosawa's...
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Thursday 3/20 @ Various locations
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/20 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments....
Thursday 3/20 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Thursday 3/20 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Thursday 3/20 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
Thursday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/20 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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 —...
Thursday 3/20 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Thursday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
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...
Thursday 3/20 @ 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...
Thursday 3/20 @ Johansson Projects
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...
Thursday 3/20 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
