Events on Tuesday, March 9
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ Institute of East Asian Studies
The Asian Art Museum's Lords of the Samurai exhibition became a lightning rod for controversy because of the way it framed...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ The Fillmore
The Fillmore says: Class Actress is led by Elizabeth Harper, the second artist to sign to Chris Taylor...
All About California With Dr. Kevin Starr
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
The final volume of USC Professor and former State Historian Kevin Starr's spirited, comprehensive magnum opus on California is cause for...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ San Francisco Performances
Violinist Jennifer Koh mesmerizes audiences with the sheer intensity of her playing. As a virtuoso whose natural flair is matched with...
The Clientele / The Wooden Birds
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ Great American Music Hall
The Clientele formed a long time ago in the backwoods of suburban Hampshire, playing together as kids at school, rehearsing in...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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,...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 9 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
