Events on Friday, March 19
Film Screening: Neil Young Trunk Show
Friday 3/19 @ Lumiere Theatre
This is the second Neil Young film by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). It captures...
Friday 3/19 @ Velvet da Vinci 2015 Polk Street San Francisco, CA 94109
Velvet da Vinci says: Chased + Repoussé is an exhibition curated by Nancy Megan Corwin in conjunction with her book by...
Tingel Tangel feat. Joey Arias
Friday 3/19 @ Cafe du Nord
The bi-coastal underground cabaret is celebrating its second birthday party, with legendary drag performance artist Joey Arias as host. You’re in...
de Young Poetry Series with Michael Ondaatje
Friday 3/19 @ Koret Auditorium
Michael Ondaatje is the author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost, but long before his novels were attracting Booker Prizes...
Hubba Hubba Revue: Awards Show
Friday 3/19 @ DNA Lounge
Hubba Hubba Revue says: Join the Stars of Hubba Hubba Revue as they take on the glitz, glamour and over-the-top antics...
Friday 3/19 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
From the heart of New York, these ambassadors of African-American culture bring their foot-stomping, hand-clapping blues, jazz and joyous gospel to...
Friday 3/19 @ Slim's
Meticulous attention to detail and an emphasis on accuracy in sound, imagery, and performance set Blasphemous Rumours apart from other Depeche Mode...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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
Friday 3/19 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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,...
Friday 3/19 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
SF International Asian American Film Festival
Friday 3/19 @ Various locations
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of...
Friday 3/19 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Friday 3/19 @ The Fillmore
Dance band Groove Armada say they want to show a "darker side" with their new album, Black Light. The production style...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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)...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 18 Reasons
Scratch 'n' sniff usually gets relegated to Lisa Frank novelties, but To Curry Favor, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's latest exhibit at the...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Friday 3/19 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Friday 3/19 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Friday 3/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Friday 3/19 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Friday 3/19 @ 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
Friday 3/19 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Friday 3/19 @ ODC
Reserve the edge of your seat. 3 Different Programs. 2 World-class Choreographers. 1 Extraordinary Company. World premieres by...
Friday 3/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 3/19 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
