Events on Wednesday, March 26
Wednesday 3/26 @ The Booksmith
Self-deprecating and refreshingly honest, author Anne Lamott has cultivated a following based on her wry observations, sardonic wit, and underlying compassion....
Wednesday 3/26 @ Rickshaw Stop
Named after the righteously animated clay monster of Jewish mythology,
Wednesday 3/26 @ Mezzanine
Fully Flared, the hotly anticipated skating video four years in the making from directors Ty Evans and Spike Jonze, doesn't disappoint....
Wednesday 3/26 @ Great American Music Hall
Like a post-hardcore version of Woody Allen, Bob Mould has settled into an elder-statesman role for artists of every stripe. And...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 3/26 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Wednesday 3/26 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Wednesday 3/26 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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,...
Wednesday 3/26 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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,...
Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/26 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
