Events on Thursday, March 18
Marcia Gagliardi: The Tabletopper's Guide to Dining and Drinking in SF
Thursday 3/18 @ Books Inc
Tablehopper says: When it's time to take your parents out to dinner or your girlfriend on a sexy date, or when...
Kevin Killian: Impossible Princess
Thursday 3/18 @ Books Inc. in the Castro
Sex inside a copy machine. Fantasies about a panther's private parts. Erotic encounters in the basement of the de Young with...
Thursday 3/18 @ Slim's
A virtuoso picker and musical visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music, Bassekou has jammed...
DIY Mixology: Mad Men Cocktails
Thursday 3/18 @ Workshop
Workshop SF is the brainchild of Kelly Malone, Philly-native, cancer ass-kicker, and the creative mind behind the Indie Mart. "Indie Mart...
Thursday 3/18 @ SFMOMA
Museumwide
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba + DJ Said (Fatsouls Records)
Thursday 3/18 @ Slim's
A virtuoso picker and musical visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music, Bassekou Kouyate has...
Thursday 3/18 @ SFMOMA
John Zarobell (assistant curator of collections, exhibitions, and commissions) on Kara Walker’s No mere words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this...
Ongoing Events
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Thursday 3/18 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Thursday 3/18 @ Great American Music Hall
Gomez got their first break in 1998 when Michael Eavis, founder of Glastonbury Festival, asked them to plug a last minute...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ Kala Art Institute
Home sweet home. Home is where the heart is. A man’s home is his castle. Photography exhibit Siege offers many interpretations...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
SF International Asian American Film Festival
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Mission: Comics & Art
Aaron Zonka's art comically depicts the difference between a "hip ster" (a sunglass donned man who is rapidly stirring a cup-of-joe)...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 18 Reasons
Scratch 'n' sniff usually gets relegated to Lisa Frank novelties, but To Curry Favor, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's latest exhibit at the...
Thursday 3/18 @ The Fillmore
Dance band Groove Armada say they want to show a "darker side" with their new album, Black Light. The production style...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 3/18 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Thursday 3/18 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Thursday 3/18 @ ODC
Reserve the edge of your seat. 3 Different Programs. 2 World-class Choreographers. 1 Extraordinary Company. World premieres by...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Thursday 3/18 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
