All events on Thursday March 27

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Music: Rock/Pop
José González
Thursday Mar 27 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Giveaway
Argentinian-born Swedish singer/songwriter José González is best known for stripping electronic songs to their acoustic essence — his interpretation of the Knife's "Heartbeats" breathes warmth... View details »
José González
Film: Shorts
Regime Change
Thursday Mar 27 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
The films in tonight's program examine what happens when governments fall. Jean-Gabriel Périot's Eût-elle été criminelle… (Even If She Had Been a Criminal...) uses archival... View details »
Regime Change
Film
Before the Revolution
Thursday Mar 27 (8:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directed Before the Revolution when he was just 22 years old, and it brims with the passion you might expect from... View details »
Before the Revolution
Performing Arts: Theatre
Amor Cubano
Thursday Mar 27 (8pm) @ La Peña Cultural Center More times »
Giveaway
Maceo Cabrera Estévez's multimedia performance Amor Cubano is a sexy, tongue-in-cheek exploration of modern culture's quest for a miracle cure. Plumbing her heritage as a... View details »
Amor Cubano
Music: Electronic
Justice
Thursday Mar 27 (8pm) @ SF Concourse and Exhibition Center
Despite the group's recent ubiquity (thanks a lot, New York Times), Justice show no signs of compromise. Treating first-wave French filter house like a much-loved... View details »
Justice
Music: Rock/Pop
Musee Mecanique
Thursday Mar 27 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Gently floating on melancholy waves of lap steel, glockenspiel, and strings, Musee Mecanique's lush indie-rock ballads expand into mini-symphonies conducted by creaky geniuses Micah Rabwin... View details »
Musee Mecanique
Film
Summer Love
Thursday Mar 27 (6:30pm) @ SFMOMA
Polish director Piotr Uklanski debuts with Summer Love, a heady homage to spaghetti westerns. The episodic plot is the definition of western primitivism — the... View details »
Summer Love

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Film: Animation
Persepolis
Thursday Mar 27 @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
Persepolis
Art
Tim Lee
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
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 his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Art
Paul McCarthy
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass... View details »
Paul McCarthy
Art
An-My Lê
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Gilbert & George
Thursday Mar 27 @ de Young Museum More times »
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art: Photography
Friedlander
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
Friedlander
Art
Zhan Wang
Thursday Mar 27 (10:30–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed as a minature example... View details »
Zhan Wang
Art
Enrique Chagoya
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
Enrique Chagoya
Art
Chuck Arnett
Thursday Mar 27 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
Chuck Arnett
Art
James Gobel
Thursday Mar 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and the often ruggedly masculine... View details »
James Gobel
Art: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Thursday Mar 27 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
Annie Leibovitz
Film
Last Year at Marienbad
Thursday Mar 27 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' New-Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The film follows a nameless... View details »
Last Year at Marienbad
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture — as an integral element... View details »
The Fabric of Cultures
Art
You ROYGBIV Me
Thursday Mar 27 @ Tartine Bakery More times »
Free
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently, under curator Brianna Toth,... View details »
You ROYGBIV Me
Art
In Collaboration
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
In Collaboration
Art
Matt Furie
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way of Troma Entertainment's schlocky... View details »
Matt Furie
Film
The Films of Pedro Costa
Thursday Mar 27 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Few filmmakers have elicited as strong and divided a response from critics and cinephiles as Portuguese director Pedro Costa. He isn't so much an aesthete... View details »
The Films of Pedro Costa
Art
Drama and Desire
Thursday Mar 27 (10am–9pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
Drama and                    Desire
Art
Leonora Carrington
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
Leonora Carrington
Art
Victor Cartagena
Thursday Mar 27 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
Victor Cartagena
Art
Chris Johanson
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in the Whitney Biennial and... View details »
Chris Johanson
Performing Arts: Theatre
June in a Box
Thursday Mar 27 (8pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
Award-winning theatre ensemble Campo Santo has been bringing innovative productions to the Bay Area for more than a decade now. The company's new play, June... View details »
June in a Box
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The... View details »
Protest in Paris 1968
Art
Jeremy Blake
Thursday Mar 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
Free
Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake rose to fame nearly... View details »
Jeremy Blake
Performing Arts: Dance
ODC
Thursday Mar 27 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
San Francisco's Oberlin Dance Collective has long enjoyed the admiration of international modern dancers and critics alike, impressing with its performers' agility and physical artistry.... View details »
ODC
Art
Barbara Takenaga
Thursday Mar 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Mesmerizing fields of color and pattern gently radiate outward from Barbara Takenaga's new series of paintings. While the artist has limited her abstract vocabulary to... View details »
Barbara Takenaga
Art
Deric Carner
Thursday Mar 27 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments. Double Heading is full... View details »
Deric Carner
Art: Photography
Whimsy
Thursday Mar 27 (10am–10pm) @ RayKo Photo Center More times »
Free
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous. The photos share a... View details »
Whimsy
Art
Propogations
Thursday Mar 27 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
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 mind. Hayes' organic, abstract... View details »
Propogations
Art
At the Movies
Thursday Mar 27 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
It's not often that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is spoken of in the same breath as Akira Kurosawa's Rashômon, but for the... View details »
At the Movies
Art
Feral
Thursday Mar 27 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps, and paper collage. Canilao's... View details »
Feral
Art
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes in a series of... View details »
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
Art
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
Thursday Mar 27 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen. Though the three men... View details »
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Thursday Mar 27 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice