In addition to great exhibitions, we try to keep you up to date with interesting lectures and other art related events. One such event happened Monday, Claire Bishop (author of the excellent new book on social practice art Artificial Hells) talking about “What is ‘contemporary’ about a contemporary art museum’ and as an experiment we the Art Cards editors attended it and took notes. Which is to say, we live blogged on Twitter during the event. 

We’re like newborn gazelles when it comes to Twitter, all shaky legs and bad spelling, but I think it turned out okay. Bishop’s talk centered around a paper or essay she is working on and she wanted feedback, which was helped by the talk taking place in an odd board room. 
Here’s an excerpt:

Bishop: Contemporaiety is staged on the level of the identity/image. Are we post-history? At a conference Dominic Wilsdon stated that the SFMOMA doesn’t think about history. What is the narrative of museums post mid-eighties? Ad Reinhert 'How modern is the modern museum?... Contemporary + modern = presentism, though contemporary is 'more modern than modern', the ‘good taste’ of the present, aka invisible hand of the market. (…….)

Bishop: Who is this article/essay for? Should it be for institution/'upstairs' administration types? 
Artcards: Yes, but discussion may devolve to funding/efficacy issues
Anu Vikram:  Maybe its not unworthwhile to discuss these models new and old, especially in the ‘Global South’, India etc. where there is no exhibition history…

For more barely legible notes from the event, go to twitter.com/artcards_sf

Curiously Direct Picks

Pro Arts//Amy M. Ho: 2x2 Solo Show= An incredible, ambitious, and exciting-to-be-in installation by Ho. In it, the artist has dealt with the peculiar shape that is Pro Arts, building a room nestled into a corner housing a pair of video works. There is a work outside of the room, red and blue gels over the windows, and this is an effective work though it is easy to imagine it having taken over all of the gallery's windows. But the color makes a nice segue into the next works: inside her room the two video pieces use color to further the investigations of her previous installation work. The way they both engage the architecture here is quite stunning, and I highly recommend making it to this show before it closes to spend some time in it. Ho's work folds the imaginary/fictiveness of an artwork with that of the spectator's experience, creating a shared not-real/extra-real space. Excellent.

Tuesday:

+ Screening: Tsai Ming-liang "Movie Night at the OACC: Vive L'Amour" at Oakland Asian Cultural Center

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Wednesday:
+ Lecture: "Lecture by Rashaad Newsome" at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Panel Discussion: "Location/Translation: Art and Engagement from the Local to the Global" at Berkeley Art Museum

Thursday:
+ Performance: Sean McFarland, Suzy Poling "Visible Horizons: Sound & Reflection" at SF Arts Commission Gallery

Friday:
+ Amy Wilson Faville, Calder Yates, Tamara Albaitis "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
+ Panel Discussion: "In Conversation: Jeffrey Deitch and Lawrence Rinder" at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:
+ Anne Colvin, Jeremy Bailey, Julie Perini, Tasman Richardson, Theo Eshetu "System Operations" curated by Kenneth White at Eli Ridgway Gallery

+ Adi Nes, Carrie Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Gillian Wearing, Nina Katchadourian, Pieter Hugo, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, SuttonBeresCuller, TV Moore "Mutables" curated by Ashley Stull at Eli Ridgway Gallery

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+ Amy Wilson Faville, Calder Yates, Tamara Albaitis "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )

Tuesday, September 18

Panel Discussion: "Collector's Night" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, Suggested $10 donation, 5:30-7:30pm

Ashley Fitzpatrick, Dalia Anani, Elizabeth Moran, Helga Hizer, Henry Witecki, Lana Dandan, Nicholas Heskes, Oliver Padilla "so nah (work from CCA Berlin)" The Berlin Exchange Exhibition Work from the Berlin Studios Program at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Bruce Galleries, Free, 5:30-8pm

+ Screening: Tsai Ming-liang "Movie Night at the OACC: Vive L'Amour" at Oakland Asian Cultural Center Oakland: 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290, $5, suggested donation, 7-9pm

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Wednesday, September 19

+ Lecture: "Lecture by Rashaad Newsome" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, free, 7:30pm-9pm

Lynn Marie Kirby & Alexis Petty "Laguna Yellow" at Elastic City
Mission District: 2781 24th Street, $20, 5-6pm

Lecture: Andrew Masullo "Lecture by Andrew Masullo" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 6pm

Lecture: "Lecture by Maria Elena Buszek" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway, Nahl Hall, Free, 7pm

Lecture: Abe Morell "Abe Morell Artist Lecture" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Danforth Lecture Hall, Free, 7-9pm

+ Panel Discussion: "Location/Translation: Art and Engagement from the Local to the Global" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Museum Theater, free, 5:30-7:30pm

Thursday, September 20

Workshop: "Ritlab: Pickle, Preserve, and Molly Picon" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $5 general (includes Museum admission), 5:30-8pm

+ Performance: Sean McFarland, Suzy Poling "Visible Horizons: Sound & Reflection" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, free, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Lecture by Matthew E. May" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

Friday, September 21

Lecture: "Lecture by Nicole Lazzaro" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , free, 7pm

+ Amy Wilson Faville, Calder Yates, Tamara Albaitis "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 5-9pm

+ Panel Discussion: "In Conversation: Jeffrey Deitch and Lawrence Rinder" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, This event is ticketed as part of L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA. $7 general admission (tickets on sale Septmber 14); free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff., 6-7pm

Saturday, September 22

+ Anne Colvin, Jeremy Bailey, Julie Perini, Tasman Richardson, Theo Eshetu "System Operations" curated by Kenneth White at Eli Ridgway Gallery
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, Gallery Project Space, free, 4-7pm

+ Adi Nes, Carrie Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Gillian Wearing, Nina Katchadourian, Pieter Hugo, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, SuttonBeresCuller, TV Moore "Mutables" curated by Ashley Stull at Eli Ridgway Gallery SOMA: 172 Minna Street, free, 4-7pm

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JESSI KEMPIN, Nancy Calef "Nancy Calef - Peoplescapes - oil & 3D and Jessi Kempin - Abstractions" at Focus Gallery
Russian Hill: 1534 Grant Avenue, floor 1, free, 12-5 pm

JESSI KEMPIN, Nancy Calef "Focus Gallery presents Nancy Calef's - Peoplescapes - oil & 3D and Jessi Kempin's Abstractions" at Focus Gallery
Russian Hill: 1534 Grant Avenue, floor 1, free, 12-5 pm

Lynn Marie Kirby & Alexis Petty "Laguna Yellow" at Elastic City
Mission District: 2781 24th Street, $20, 5-6pm

Lynn Marie Kirby & Alexis Petty "Laguna Yellow" at Elastic City
Mission District: 2781 24th Street, $20, 2-3pm

+ Amy Wilson Faville, Calder Yates, Tamara Albaitis "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 1-5pm

Artist Talk: Eli Geiser , Eric Bohr, Joan Weiss, Kathleen King, Leah Markos "Abstraction: Pull and Sway" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, free, 4-6pm

Monday, September 24

Lecture: "Lecture by Judie Bamber" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, free, 7:30pm-9pm

Lecture: "Lecture by Catalina Patiño, Ctrl-G" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

Lecture: "Lecture with Travis Meinolf" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Textiles (room L3), free, 12pm

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