Events on Wednesday, March 26

Anne Lamott: <em>Grace (Eventually)</em>

Books: Reading

Anne Lamott

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.... 

Golem w/ Lord Loves a Working Man

Music

Golem

Wednesday 3/26 @ Rickshaw Stop

Named after the righteously animated clay monster of Jewish mythology, New York's Golem make an inspired connection between the speedy trills... 

<em>Fully Flared</em>

Film: Documentary

Fully Flared

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.... 

Bob Mould Band w/ Saturna

Music

Bob Mould Band

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

<em>Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet</em>

Special Event

Art & Artifice

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... 

ODC/Dance Downtown 2008

Dance

ODC

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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'... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Protest in Paris 1968

Wednesday 3/26 @ Berkeley Art Museum

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

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

Art

Drama and Desire

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... 

<em> Lautrec in Leather: Chuck Arnett and the Birth of the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art

Chuck Arnett

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... 

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

Film

Last Year at Marienbad

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... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Wednesday 3/26 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

Matt Furie: <em>Nature Freak</em>

Art

Matt Furie

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... 

James Gobel: <em>Bear Hunting</em>

Art

James Gobel

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

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... 

<em>Feral</em>

Art

Feral

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Luggage Store

In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps,... 

Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa

Film

The Films of Pedro Costa

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... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

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.... 

Chris Johanson

Art

Chris Johanson

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... 

Barbara Takenaga: <em>Paintings</em>

Art

Barbara Takenaga

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... 

Zhan Wang

Art

Zhan Wang

Wednesday 3/26 @ Haines Gallery

Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

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... 

<em>At the Movies</em>

Art

At the Movies

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... 

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

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

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 —... 

Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough: <em>Symptom of the Universe</em>

Art

Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Whimsy

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.... 

Victor Cartagena: <em>The Invisible Nation</em>

Art

Victor Cartagena

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,... 

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

Art

You ROYGBIV Me

Wednesday 3/26 @ Tartine Bakery

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

Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 1</em>

Art

Paul McCarthy

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... 

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

Art

Leonora Carrington

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,... 

Jeremy Blake: <em>Winchester Redux</em>

Art

Jeremy Blake

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... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

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...