Events on Saturday, March 8
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Enola Maxwell High School Auditorium
Phil Elverum (formerly "Elvrum") is the gentle giant of the
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Mezzanine
Eclecticism is that ineffable quality that many DJs fancy possessing, but it's actually quite difficult to pull off. Enter DJ /rupture....
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Bottom of the Hill
Rail-thin Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox has leaked dozens of Atlas Sound demos and experiments on his blog, but last month's release...
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Saturday 3/ 8 @ The Independent
In the age of MySpace, having a handful of limited-edition 7-inches to your name doesn't mean you're off the radar: Toronto...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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 —...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,...
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ SF Camerawork
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Marx & Zavattero
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
