Events on Wednesday, April 2
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ The Castro Theatre
Mommie Dearest's immortal line, "it's not you, it's the dirt," retroactively receives poetic justice in Vincent Sherman's not-on-DVD melodrama, Harriet Craig,...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ The Independent
Of rock 'n roll's many princes of darkness, American Music Club singer Mark Eitzel has the market cornered on barroom laments....
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Mezzanine
Teutonic duo Digitalism are unapologetically staging a takeover of the electro world, redefining the dance party with their own brand of...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ City Lights
San Francisco native Lewis Lapham served as an editor at Harper's magazine for 30 years before giving up his post in...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
There is no argument here — we humans consistently encroach on the natural world and its inhabitants. Unfortunately for birdwatchers like...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Tonight, the PFA presents a rare screening of Chris Marker's three-hour assemblage essay, A Grin Without a Cat. Marker is best...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ The Make-Out Room
Emmett Kelley's name may be unfamiliar to most, but you've probably heard his understated guitar playing if you're a Beth Orton...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Roxie Theater
RE/Search's 1987 publication Pranks was a postmodern update to André Breton's Anthology of Black Humor (1940), itself a compendium of mischievous...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Roxie Theater
These days, referring to the LA art scene as a contradiction in terms is an unfounded cliché. Back in the early...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Wednesday 4/ 2 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
