Events on Thursday, March 4
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Now that San Francisco is outlawing plastic bags, maybe it's time to give your last ones a dignified exit. Let Etsy...
75 Years in the Dark: Material & Illusion
Thursday 3/ 4 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (map) curated & introduced by Steve Anker presented in collaboration with the San...
Midlake / Matthew & the Arrogant Sea
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Great American Music Hall
Every once in a while, a band comes along that undoubtedly evokes something special. You don't know what the elusive ingredient...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Carrie Pilto (project assistant curator) on Henri Matisse’s La fille aux yeux verts (The Girl with Green...
FILM SERIES- 75 Years in the Dark: A Partial History of Film at SFMOMA, Part 2
Thursday 3/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Phyllis Wattis Theater
DISPOSABLE FILM FEST: Opening Night - Competitive Shorts
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
You don't want to miss this one! This year's competitive shorts were made by disposable...
Ongoing Events
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Various locations
With its unique focus on films made with "disposable" devices (cell phones, point-and-shoot cameras, webcams, single-use recorders), the Disposable Film Festival...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Cobb's Comedy Club
With the "geek" and "cool" circles on our cultural Venn diagram overlapping as never before, few performers work the intersection like...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Castro Theatre
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Brooklyn-based painter (and San Francisco Art Institute grad) Chris Ballantyne creates strange intersections of the natural and the man-made. But his...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Those categories of music not neatly shelved and delineated into familiar genre-based categories find a much-needed champion in the Other Minds...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Before the Internet, another kind of magic — wireless telegraphy, aka radio — made teleportation possible, astoundingly collapsing distance to bring...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Thursday 3/ 4 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada
Thursday 3/ 4 @ The Lab
"Alternorthern," curated by Kevin Betram and Jason Gowans, features the work of Sonny Assu, Valerie Boxer, Vincent Chevalier, Brendan Fernandes, Jenny...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
