Events on Saturday, March 20
Saturday 3/20 @ Musée Mécanique
Atlas Obscura's raison d'être is to showcase the "eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and out-of-the-way places" that get omitted from guidebooks. The website...
Pine Box Boys w/ The Earl Brothers
Saturday 3/20 @ Slim's
The gallows are a-waitin'. If you're bloodthirsty for a sinister night of old-time strummin' and pluckin', then check out the Old-Time...
Saturday 3/20 @ The Lab
This art auction has a towering lineup. Local highlights include illustrator and mixed-media artist Lisa Congdon, who is also the co-owner...
Saturday 3/20 @ Bottom of the Hill
Somber Oakland tunesmith Jamie Stewart is as important to his young, earnest fans as Ian Curtis and Morrissey were to the...
The Machines Next Time: The Right of Return (Bobcat Ballet Act II)
Saturday 3/20 @ SOMArts
In 2000, local artist Jessica Dylan Tully developed the performance piece "The Right of Return (Bobcat Ballet)" as a site-specific ballet...
Ongoing Events
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 3/20 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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....
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 18 Reasons
Scratch 'n' sniff usually gets relegated to Lisa Frank novelties, but To Curry Favor, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's latest exhibit at the...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/20 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Freeze-dried burials. Sounds appealing, doesn't it? Artists Kara Tanaka and Marco Rios traveled to Sweden to learn about the country's eco-friendly...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Saturday 3/20 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
The Runaways is the debut feature for Floria Sigismondi, acclaimed video director for the White Stripes, Bowie, and Marilyn Manson. When...
Saturday 3/20 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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)...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
SF International Asian American Film Festival
Saturday 3/20 @ Various locations
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ SF Concourse and Exhibition Center
Vintage Fashion Expo says: You are invited to join your fellow clotheshorses, fashion designers, costumers, celebs and fashion editors from all...
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Saturday 3/20 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Saturday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Saturday 3/20 @ ODC
Reserve the edge of your seat. 3 Different Programs. 2 World-class Choreographers. 1 Extraordinary Company. World premieres by...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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
Saturday 3/20 @ 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
Saturday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Saturday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 3/20 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Saturday 3/20 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
