Events on Friday, March 6
Friday 3/ 6 @ Cafe du Nord
As lead singer of the avant-garde act Swans, mope-throated Michael Gira pushed the limits of bass-freakery, moaning like there was no...
Gun Club Anniversary feat. Maurice Fulton
Friday 3/ 6 @ Paradise Lounge
Maurice Fulton is one of dance music's most creative, enigmatic producers. His recent 12-inch under the Syclops moniker harkens back to...
Ghostly Anniversary feat. Michna
Friday 3/ 6 @ Mezzanine
While many rock-leaning indie labels have slowly added more electronic acts to their rosters, Ghostly International has always had open ears...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/ 6 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Photographer Lauren Dukoff began chronicling the world of Devendra Banhart when the two were still teens. She was the candid and...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Friday 3/ 6 @ Zellerbach Hall
Master choreographer Alvin Ailey and his diverse, fiercely athletic dance company have come to define their own school of movement —...
Friday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Hemlock Tavern
Experimental freak-folkers Akron/Family have certainly evolved: what began as a wildly experimental college-rock act (see the 2006 collab with fellow experimenters...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Bedford Gallery
It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Off-Market Theater
Edward Albee is a keen observer of the human condition, and A Delicate Balance is an ideal showcase for his dissection...
Friday 3/ 6 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
Those categories of music not neatly shelved and delineated into familiar genre-based categories find a much-needed champion in the Other Minds...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
With its commitment to rebellious, controversial, and often unrepentantly queer work, Strand Releasing may very well be the Grove Press of...
Friday 3/ 6 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Friday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ Intersection for the Arts
As suggested by the colliding adjectives in its title, Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd's theatrical adaptation of Adam Mansbach's novel of...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 6 @ 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...
