Events on Thursday, March 6

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Zellerbach Hall

Master choreographer Alvin Ailey and his diverse, fiercely athletic dance company have come to define their own school of movement —... 

Mahjongg w/ Music for Animals and Long Live Logos

Music

Mahjongg

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Rickshaw Stop

Chicago-based music collective Mahjongg tend toward the same sort of upbeat art-rock that Talking Heads perfected on albums like Fear... 

<em>Orchestral Innovators</em>: Travis Sullivan's Bj&ouml;rkestra and the Realistic Orchestra

Music: Classical

Orchestral Innovators

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Novellus Theater

The songs of Icelandic chanteuse Björk, with their complex layers and tonalities, are great candidates for jazz interpretation. Alto saxophonist Travis... 

Small Press Month Marathon Reading and Trading Post

Books: Reading

Small Press Month

Thursday 3/ 6 @ City Lights

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore is ground zero for Bay Area indie lit, so it makes sense to host Small Press... 

[CANCELLED] Balkan Beat Box w/ DJ Joro-Boro

Music: Global

Balkan Beat Box

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Fillmore

Indie rock has never seen such affection for Eastern Europe. Between Beirut's love affair with Slavic folk tunes and Gogol Bordello's... 

Old Time Relijun

Music

Old Time Relijun

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Hemlock Tavern

Half slappy neo-no wave, half swagger-happy cowpunk, alien rockers Old Time Relijun axe aggressively, hacking at traditional modes of composition until... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Small Things End, Great Things Endure</em>

Art

Small Things End, Great Things Endure

Thursday 3/ 6 @ New Langton Arts

Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,... 

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Traveling Jewish Theater

When Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, audiences were more accustomed to stark, conceptual writing and avant-garde theatrics than today. The... 

Jens Haaning

Art

Jens Haaning

Thursday 3/ 6 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries

Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His... 

<em>Landscape, Nature, and Space</em>

Art

Landscape, Nature, and Space

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Bucheon Gallery

Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the... 

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

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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> Lautrec in Leather: Chuck Arnett and the Birth of the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art

Chuck Arnett

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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>Wicked of the West </em>

Art

Wicked of the West

Thursday 3/ 6 @ a.Muse Gallery

Based on The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West reexamines... 

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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 —... 

Jordan Eagles

Art

Jordan Eagles

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood,... 

The Ditty Bops

Music

The Ditty Bops

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse

It's not surprising that LA folk-pop duo the Ditty Bops specialize in sweetly romantic yarns. A couple since 1999, they use... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Various locations

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

<em>Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America</em>

Art

Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University

Parsing the multivalent impacts of the prison system on American society, Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America unites disparate artistic... 

<em>Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman </em>

Film: Documentary

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

As Sex and the City prepares for its big-screen debut and Hollywood remakes George Cukor's 1939 claw-fest The Women, it's nice... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Thursday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art

Leonora Carrington

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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>El Topo </em>(1971)

Film

El Topo

Thursday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

John Lennon was so impressed with Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky's psychedelic western El Topo that he convinced a friend to... 

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

Art

You ROYGBIV Me

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Tartine Bakery

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

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

James Gobel

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Marx & Zavattero

Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and... 

Zhan Wang

Art

Zhan Wang

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Haines Gallery

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

Other Minds Music Festival

Music: Classical

Other Minds

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

Now in its 13th year, San Francisco's Other Minds New Music Festival can't be called under the radar anymore, even if... 

Katsushige Nakahashi: <em>The Depth of Memory</em>

Art: Photography

Katsushige Nakahashi

Thursday 3/ 6 @ SF Camerawork

While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces... 

Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa

Film

The Films of Pedro Costa

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

An-My Lê

Thursday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art

Matt Furie

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Barbara Takenaga: <em>Paintings</em>

Art

Barbara Takenaga

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

June in a Box

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Thursday 3/ 6 @ de Young Museum

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