Events on Tuesday, March 25
Ann Bannon and Victor J. Banis
Tuesday 3/25 @ GLBT Historical Society
If queer lit's tangled roots can be traced to pulp fiction, then Ann Bannon and Victor J. Banis wrote some of...
Tuesday 3/25 @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Professor and media critic Eric Alterman shouldn't have much trouble explaining the title of his latest tract to a sympathetic Berkeley...
Tuesday 3/25 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
A combination of erudition and adventure fuels the writing of Greil Marcus, a Berkeley-based critic best known for his explications of...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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,...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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,...
Tuesday 3/25 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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 —...
Tuesday 3/25 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Tuesday 3/25 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Tuesday 3/25 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
Tuesday 3/25 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments....
Tuesday 3/25 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
Tuesday 3/25 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Tuesday 3/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/25 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
