Events on Sunday, March 23

Noir: The Sisters' 29th Anniversary Celebration

City Gems

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Sunday 3/23 @ Mission Dolores Park

What do you do when you turn 29? Well, when you're the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — San Francisco's favorite wimple-wearing,... 

Phosphorescent w/ Bon Iver and White Hinterland

Music

Phosphorescent

Sunday 3/23 @ The Independent

Tonight, Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck headlines a triple-bill of immersive folk. After first attracting notice in Georgia for his parading indie rock,... 

Honey Sound System presents Mineshaft: Dancer from the Dance feat. Jeffrey Sfire and Steve Summers

Music: DJ

Mineshaft: Dancer from the Dance

Sunday 3/23 @ 103 Harriet St

In his 1978 novel Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran wrote of the post-Stonewall gay scene: "No one was allowed to... 

Ongoing Events

ODC/Dance Downtown 2008

Dance

ODC

Sunday 3/23 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

San Francisco's Oberlin Dance Collective has long enjoyed the admiration of international modern dancers and critics alike, impressing with its performers'... 

<em>At the Movies</em>

Art

At the Movies

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

<em>The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization</em>

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Sunday 3/23 @ 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 —... 

<em>Whimsy: Photography by BAPC</em>

Art: Photography

Whimsy

Sunday 3/23 @ RayKo Photo Center

Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous.... 

Jeronimo Roldan and Amanda Curreri: <em>You ROYGBIV Me</em>

Art

You ROYGBIV Me

Sunday 3/23 @ Tartine Bakery

Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently,... 

An-My L&ecirc;: <em>Small Wars</em>

Art

An-My Lê

Sunday 3/23 @ SFMOMA

An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... 

Leonora Carrington: <em>The Talismanic Lens</em>

Art

Leonora Carrington

Sunday 3/23 @ 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,... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Sunday 3/23 @ Various locations

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... 

Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa

Film

The Films of Pedro Costa

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Tariq Alvi: <em>Hanging Matters</em>

Art

Tariq Alvi

Sunday 3/23 @ 2nd Floor Projects

British artist Tariq Alvi reappropriates and subverts found materials gathered from mass media; he constructs highly charged and complex collages with... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

<em>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Sunday 3/23 @ Asian Art Museum

On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... 

<em>Last Year at Marienbad </em>(1961)

Film

Last Year at Marienbad

Sunday 3/23 @ The Castro Theatre

Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' New-Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The... 

<em>Ukranian Citizens and Strangers</em>

Art

Ukranian Citizens and Strangers

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

<em>In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection</em>

Art

In Collaboration

Sunday 3/23 @ SFMOMA

San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media... 

Annie Leibovitz: <em>A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005</em>

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Sunday 3/23 @ Various locations

"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of... 

Campo Santo presents <em>June in a Box</em>

Theatre

June in a Box

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Sunday 3/23 @ SFMOMA

Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... 

<em>Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg</em>

Art: Photography

Protest in Paris 1968

Sunday 3/23 @ Berkeley Art Museum

Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 3/23 @ de Young Museum

Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...