Every so often, I’ll notice references to VNS Matrix in writing today, often alongside Donna Haraway’s 1985
Cyborg Manifesto (I see Sadie Plant mentioned less often, though she’s every bit as relevant; her 1997 book
Zeros + Ones unearthed a complex historical connection between women and machines). Part of why I think these ideas on gender and technology continue to interest us is that the future they envisioned hasn’t happened yet. Writing plays an interesting role in this issue; Haraway explicitly framed ‘cyborg writing’ as charting a path forward, saying that it’s “about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.”
. By local artist Liz HernaÌndez (center), Conjuro para la sanacioÌn de nuestro futuro is the newest addition to SFMOMA s Bay Area Walls mural series. See it IRL at the museum now. (Courtesy of SFMOMA) San Francisco art museums are reopeningâhere s what to see this spring
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Mar 06, 2021
With Bay Area counties officially in the red tier, local museums are opening their doors with a current maximum capacity of 25 percent.
Expect to book timed tickets in advance and wear your mask to view much-anticipated exhibits such as the de Young s
Calder-Picasso and SFMOMA s
Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis. Here s the lowdown on which museums are open, what s showing, and which hallowed art halls are expected to reopen soon.
Noe Music
Old First Concerts
Rufus Wainwright
The gay singer-songwriter performs A Rufus-Retro Wainwright-Spective, a series of online Friday night concerts including all of his recorded songs. Tickets $20. https://rufuswainwright.com/
San Francisco Bach Choir
Mar. 6, 10am, PT, Healing and Song, with Melanie DeMore. Mar. 13: Russian Songs from the Heart; more weekly online concerts. https://sfbach.org/
San Francisco Gay Men s Chorus
Enjoy concerts like Angels, (commemorating the 30th anniversary of When We No Longer Touch, the world s first requiem dedicated to those lost to AIDS, recorded in 2018) streaming live March 11, 6pm PT; plus guest performers joining the Behind the Curtain series and Summer Reruns (Britney Coleman, Lisa Vroman, Billy Porter, Wilson Cruz, Adam Rippon, Britney Coleman, Laura Benanti, Andrew Lippa); plus Kristin Chenoweth, Chasten and Pete Buttigieg, Wanda Sykes, Sharon Stone, Martha Wash, India s Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil and other performe