Events on Thursday, March 12
Thursday 3/12 @ City Lights
In addition to playing in three of Denver's finest bands — Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Tarantella, and Munly — Renaissance man...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 3/12 @ Hypnodrome
Horror, erotica, and live theatre collide and combine for the ménage-à-trois of hair-raising delights that is the Thrillpeddlers' modern-day Grand Guignol....
SF International Asian American Film Fest
Thursday 3/12 @ Various locations
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of...
Thursday 3/12 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Thursday 3/12 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Thursday 3/12 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating...
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Thursday 3/12 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Don't be misled by its parenthetical title — the early 20th-century ancestor of the Hitachi Magic Wand is only one link...
Thursday 3/12 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Thursday 3/12 @ 499 Castro St
One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class...
Thursday 3/12 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
The large-scale oil paintings and watercolors in Yan Pei-Ming's first West Coast show bear the scars of an ongoing struggle with...
Thursday 3/12 @ Gallery 16
In a time when technology often overshadows conventional art forms, the work of SF-based artist Elliot Anderson seamlessly merges the techno-savvy...
Thursday 3/12 @ EXIT Theatre
The local sketch-comedy savants of Killing My Lobster certainly make good on the title of their second full-length play, Pure Shock...
Thursday 3/12 @ Novellus Theater
Some of the world's best dancers congregate at ODC, a company known for its athleticism and innovation. This year's Dance Downtown...
Thursday 3/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sleek, colorless efficiency be damned; Irreverent presents two sides of the new Scandinavian art. Blending homage to traditional materials and processes...
Thursday 3/12 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found...
Thursday 3/12 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Thursday 3/12 @ Bedford Gallery
It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a...
Thursday 3/12 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Looking at artist Kristen Morgin's nimbly crafted sculptures — such as a faded, dent-laden pedal car — it's hard to avoid...
Thursday 3/12 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book adds an international spin to its venerable collection of artists' books with Wings for...
Thursday 3/12 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
François Truffaut's exquisite L'Enfant Sauvage is based on the true(ish) story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, an 18th-century feral child...
Thursday 3/12 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Thursday 3/12 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
From Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau to Donald Judd's Marfa, Texas ranch, artists have long made their homes extensions of their studios, and...
Thursday 3/12 @ de Young Museum
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," Andy Warhol once quipped. Warhol Live focuses on the artist's...
Thursday 3/12 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
