A summerish month, cloudy and breezy days, barbecues, trips to parks and beaches…

It's a great time to take a road trip down to LA for a show we’ve been excited to see since co-editor Jackie Im saw curator/writer Miwon Kwon talk about it:  “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. It’s the ‘first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with Land art’ which is to say, it will share a large netted picture of art which uses the earth as medium, including the usual favorites but also work from unexpected artists from Japan, Israel, and Iceland. Kwon refuses to shy away from the complex political and aesthetic implications these works imply. It should be good stuff, and is open from now till September.

Also keep yours eyes and ears peeled for E.S.P. LAB, a public access show out of Manhattan, which will be recording live June 1st at Liminal Space in Oakland, June 8th at Queens Nails Projects in SF, with an exhibition by E.S.P. LAB (Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie) June 1st and 2nd at Aggregate Space in Oakland. The details are a little fuzzy, but expect plenty of the best artists and performers in the Bay Area to be pitching in sound and video contributions...

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We are definitely still fielding suggestions for content and content producers. We’re working on a series of interviews with local galleries inside and outside the commercial system, and maybe a feature on the microcosm of the Bay Area that is 49 Geary.

Curiously Direct Picks

S.H.E.D. Projects//Christopher Füllemann: I get excited, You get excited= A ridiculous, inventive solo show by this recent SFAI grad. The exhibition is itself a malleable thing; consisting of 5 or 6 strange sculptures on casters. Each of them deals in varying degrees with issues of mass, space, color and tenuity, and the whole made for an excellent view of this artist's peculiar sculptural practice (with the added bonus of them all being new works). I'm uncertain how long this will be up; try to arrange a visit.

Highlight Gallery//Benoît Platéus: Backpages= A exhibition of firsts: the artists first US show, in the gallery's first show at this location and its a nice intro to both. The works are large, brash things, in which there is a definite craft in the composition and choices here, a great merge of immediacy and 'precision' to these collage works. A great new gallery and show.
 
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International Orange, a large scale group show at Fort Point, organized by the For-Site Foundation, is quite amazing, if only for its spectacular site at the base of the golden gate bridge on the SF side. Pae White, Stephanie Syjuco, Doug Hall, and Allison Smith's works stood out, but the whole thing is a must see.

 
New on Artcards Review:
- arteBA: Great Art in Buenos Aires by Morgan Croney

Wednesday:
+ Artist Talk: Jason Fulford "Mushroom Machine" at Kadist Art Foundation

Friday:
+ Atsuko Morita, Llewelynn Fletcher ""Everything Changes" is a physically surreal double show of Llewelynn Fletcher's "POWERPHERNALIA" inhabitable sculptures and Atsuko Morita's dreamy "Transitory" pinhole photographs." curated by Aline Dargie at Make Hang
+ Mike Kuchar "Mike’s Men: Sex, Guys and Videotape!" A Solo Exhibition of Drawings and Video curated by Eric Smith, Margaret Tedesco, Mark Garrett at Magnet
+ Jennie Ottinger "What To Do With Your Orphan: A Manual" at Johansson Projects
+ E.S.P. LAB (Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie) "No Found Route" at Aggregate Space

Monday:
+ Artist Talk: Richard Misrach "Conversation + slides" at City Arts and Lectures (Herbst Theater)

Wednesday, May 30

+ Artist Talk: Jason Fulford "Mushroom Machine" at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, Free, 6-9pm

Thursday, May 31

Screening: Aleksei Guerman "Trial on the Road" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers, 7:30 - 10pm

Lecture: Katharina Wulff "New Work: Katharina Wulff" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Free with gallery admission, 6:00-7:00 pm

Friday, June 1

+ Atsuko Morita, Llewelynn Fletcher ""Everything Changes" is a physically surreal double show of Llewelynn Fletcher's "POWERPHERNALIA" inhabitable sculptures and Atsuko Morita's dreamy "Transitory" pinhole photographs." curated by Aline Dargie at Make Hang
North Beach: 450 Green Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ Mike Kuchar "Mike’s Men: Sex, Guys and Videotape!" A Solo Exhibition of Drawings and Video curated by Eric Smith, Margaret Tedesco, Mark Garrett at Magnet
Castro: 4122 18th Street, Free, 8-10 pm

Aaron Grobler, Chris Love, Delvin Kenobe Leake, Edo Escobedo, Hanada Shagour, Jessy Gaumann, Kean Eggett, Kendall Berardino, Kyle Martin, Mark B Young, Patti Pauchnick, Peter Cochrane, Phillip B Gann, Sophie Elliot "The Maritime Art Collective" curated by The Maritime Collective at The Art Gallery at Cesar Chavez Student Center
Sunset: 1650 Holloway Avenue, floor 2, FREE, 4-7pm

Sheila Ghidini "Halftones" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Esther Traugot "Outside In" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, Free, 6-9pm

Daniel Healey, Darren Hawk, Michael Cutlip "Dealey Dawk Mutlip presents: ugly baby knuckles" at Marion and Rose's Workshop
Oakland: 9th Street 461, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ Jennie Ottinger "What To Do With Your Orphan: A Manual" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 6-9pm

+ E.S.P. LAB (Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie) "No Found Route" at Aggregate Space
Oakland: 801 West Grand Street, Free, 6-10pm

Saturday, June 2

Patrick Wilson "Slow Motion Action Painting" at Marx & Zavattero Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-7pm

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Theresa Ganz "As If The Earth Were Air" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, Free, 6-8pm

Tami Demaree "Project Rainbow" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, Free, 6-8pm

Yellena James "Instill" at Gallery Hijinks
Mission District: 2309 Bryant Street, at 21st Street, floor 1, Free, 6-10pm

Open Studio: Brian Reinbolt, Fonda Yoshimoto, Jennifer Linderman, Lara Hoke, Lisa Pfeiffer, Liz Copland, Lori Pino, Marcela Cabrera, Pamala Mooney, Robbin Milne, Sarah Haba, Sonia R. Sinton, Xan Blood Walker "Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios Opening Night Party" curated by Lisa Pfeiffer at Norton Factory Studios
Oakland: 3098 E. 10th Street, Free, 5-10pm

Brian Reinbolt, D.I.V.A., Fonda Yoshimoto, Lara Hoke, Lisa Pfeiffer, Liz Copland, Lori Pino, Marcela Cabrera, Pamela Mooney, Robbin Milne, Sarah Haba, Sonia R. Sinton, Xan Blood Walker "Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios Opening Night Party" curated by Lisa Pfeiffer at Norton Factory Studios Oakland: 3098 E. 10th Street, 5-10pm

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Monday, June 4

+ Artist Talk: Richard Misrach "Conversation + slides" at City Arts and Lectures (Herbst Theater)
SOMA: 401 Van Ness Ave, $22 - $27, 8-9:30 pm

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