Events on Friday, March 7
Friday 3/ 7 @ Artists' Television Access
George Lucas has said that Star Wars (1977) was greatly inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958). But Turkish director...
Friday 3/ 7 @ The Independent
The Heavenly States headline a triple-bill of stellar local power-pop. The Oakland band has quietly earned a following with its energetic,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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,...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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 —...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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,...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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,...
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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,...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Friday 3/ 7 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...
A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich
Friday 3/ 7 @ The Castro Theatre
Local film programmer Jesse Hawthorne Ficks has already given cult-movie fans plenty to cheer about with his MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS triple...
Friday 3/ 7 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
