Events on Thursday, March 11
Thursday 3/11 @ Hemlock Tavern
It seems like there are more shoegaze bands last year than there were in 1987, but when a record like A...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Thursday 3/11 @ Landmark Embarcadero
Stieg Larsson's career is sky-rocketing. His murder mysteries about a left-wing journalist have become global best-sellers, he's a cult figure in...
Paxton Gate at the Academy of Sciences
Thursday 3/11 @ California Academy of Sciences
Science nerds rejoice! Mission-based treasure-trove, Paxton Gate, will be bringing its collection of curiosities to the Academy of Sciences...
Dave Eggers in conversation with Abdulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun
Thursday 3/11 @ City Arts & Lectures
Seemingly finished (for the time being) with chronicling his intimate family tragedies (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and the vast...
Manchester Orchestra w/ The Features, Biffy Clyro and O'Brother
Thursday 3/11 @ Great American Music Hall
I do declare! It is a good evening for rock n' roll! The Peach State-natives, Manchester Orchestra, are neither Mancunians, nor...
Thursday 3/11 @ Rickshaw Stop
Fresh from rocking an opening gig at Atlas Sound's sold-out Noisepop show, SF's Geographer celebrate the release of Animal Shapes, their...
Thursday 3/11 @ Knockout
Local outfit Grass Widow's melody-driven, post-punk tunes are simply bewitching, and the spell the band casts is closely tied to the...
Thursday 3/11 @ Space Gallery
Three, two, one, blastoff! The ‘Loin-situated Space Gallery is throwing another killer art opening this Friday when Paper Hat Productions presents...
Thursday 3/11 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Paula Wolfert is widely acknowledged as one of the premier food writers in America and the "queen of Mediterranean cooking." She...
Fame, Oblivion and The Writing Life
Thursday 3/11 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Award-winning Stanford historian, Steven J. Zipperstein joins essayist Richard Rodriguez, author of The Hunger of Memory, to discuss what it feels...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
Janet Bishop (curator of painting and sculpture) on Jeff Koons’s Michael Jackson and Bubbles. Meet in the...
Ongoing Events
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Thursday 3/11 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
SF International Asian American Film Festival
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ New Conservatory Theatre
The Sugar Witch mashes-up myth, Southern Gothic, and same-sex romance. Annabelle, the protagonist witch's magic power is storytelling. With it, she...
Thursday 3/11 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
While well-documented in photography, the eerie picturesque of slick corporate environments has been addressed much less in painting. Cue Rives Granade,...
Thursday 3/11 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity...
Thursday 3/11 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City....
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Thursday 3/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The...
Thursday 3/11 @ Creativity Explored
Hold that tiger! Creativity Explored's new exhibit, inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year's regal symbol, has plenty of tigers burning...
Thursday 3/11 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Thursday 3/11 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
When the MSM is as focused on the health care gridlock as Tiger Woods' infidelities, it's easy to forget there is...
Thursday 3/11 @ Porto Franco Art Parlor
Mark Growden's ninth album, Saint Judas, was written and recorded among his long-time Oakland haunts; and this week he plays a...
Thursday 3/11 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
From George Washington's cherry tree chop to the sale of Manhattan for a pocketful of beads, American history is full of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 3/11 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Thursday 3/11 @ Blankspace
Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Thursday 3/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Thursday 3/11 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Thursday 3/11 @ Various locations
SFMOMA isn't the only cultural institution in town celebrating a milestone this year. In honor of its 40th anniversary the city-run...
Thursday 3/11 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Thursday 3/11 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Thursday 3/11 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Thursday 3/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 3/11 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Thursday 3/11 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 3/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
