The projects an artist does outside of their normal practice are often exciting peeks at other aspects of the artist’s personality and into the underlying thinking that goes into their work. 

In this sense, Thursday’s The Artist Drawing Club event looks enticing.  A monthly series of projects with contemporary artists within the context of the Asian Art Museum, this month’s version sees Art Cards favorite Amy M. Ho giving a tour of the museum ‘looking for shadows, spaces, and sounds’. For anyone familiar with Ho’s practice and its use of architecture, space and light, this is a unique opportunity to experience how she sees and hears a space. And this being the Asian Art Museum, full of complicated and confusing architectural choices in its mix of new and old, the event promises to be doubly exciting.

Thursday, March 28th, 6:30-9pm, free with museum admission (tip: consider arriving early and take a quick walk around first)

Curiously Direct Picks

YBCA//Erin Shirreff: Lake= A peculiar, challenging single channel video work. Dark landscapes drift into and out of the frame, each a revision of the images from a tourist brochure to her home made strange through digital processes of editing, reprinting etc. 
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Without Reality There is No Utopia= An excellent, sprawling group exhibition which takes multiple viewings to make a dent into due to multiple long video works and lots of text to read. It is striking how complicated the politics of these works are versus the simplicity of the terrible Occupy show. I am excited to return and take in more, it is a must-see.

Wednesday:
+ Closing reception: "Gutai Closing Reception & Panel Discussion" at San Francisco Art Institute

Friday:
+ Birgir Andrésson, Buck Ellison, Christopher Williams, Geof Oppenheimer, Mitzi Pederson, Roni Horn, Ryan McGinley, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Takeshi Murata "Magnetic North" at Ratio 3
+ Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour "The Misbehaving Object" at City Limits

Saturday:
+ Book Signing: Christian Marclay "Things I've Heard" at Fraenkel Gallery

Tuesday, March 26

Lecture: Holly Block "Defying Gravity: Curating at the 2013 Venice Biennale" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Conversation | Free Admission Dinner $25 | $20 Members, Dinner 6:30 pm, Conversation 8pm

Wednesday, March 27

+ Closing reception: "Gutai Closing Reception & Panel Discussion" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free and Open to the Public, 5:30pm-9:30pm

Lecture: Mark Ulriksen "Under the Covers: An inside look at creating illustrations for The New Yorker" at Arion Press
Marina District: 1802 Hays Street, Presidio, floor 1, RSVP recommended, email grabhorn@arionpress.com, 5:00pm

Thursday, March 28

Andrzej Michael Karwacki "Equaniminity" curated by Danielle Fox at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, free, 6-8pm

Adam Cardello, Andreina Davila, Eve Arbel "Interpreted Landscapes" curated by Adam Cardello, Eve Arbel at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, FREE, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Clint Wilson, Stella Ebner "Kala Fellowship Talks: Stella Ebner and Clint Wilson" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 7-9pm

Friday, March 29

Lecture: Anna Chave "Graduate Lecture Series: High Tide, Fluidity in Women’s Art Practice" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free and Open to the Public, 4:30-6:30pm

+ Birgir Andrésson, Buck Ellison, Christopher Williams, Geof Oppenheimer, Mitzi Pederson, Roni Horn, Ryan McGinley, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Takeshi Murata "Magnetic North" at Ratio 3
Mission District: 2831A Mission Street, Free, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Daniel Cronin "Artist Talk & Book Signing: Daniel Cronin, The Gathering of The Juggalos" at Carte Blanche
Mission District: 973 Valencia Street, floor 1, Free, 6-9pm

+ Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour "The Misbehaving Object" at City Limits
Bernal Heights: 35 Naglee Avenue, 7-10pm

Saturday, March 30

+ Book Signing: Christian Marclay "Things I've Heard" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, Free, 2-4PM

John Millei "Recent Paintings" at George Lawson Gallery
Downtown: 780 Sutter Street, Free, 5-8pm

Alan Rath "Irrational Exuberance" at Hosfelt Gallery
Potrero Hill: 260 Utah Street, Free, 4-6 pm

Jeff Ritter, Whitson Hunter "Positive Identifications" at FLOAT Gallery
Oakland: 1091 Calcot Place, #116, Free, 6-9pm

Panel Discussion: "BAY AREA ARTISTS FOR JAPAN presents “Fukushima Now: Relief Effort to Support Children in Fukushima” - Panel Discussion & Fundraiser" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 5-8pm

Sunday, March 31

Aung Aung Taik, Bobby Coleman, Danielle Rathbun, David Steele, Eric Litzen, Glenna Putt, Gustavo Rivera, Jean Oppermann, Joe Engler, Karen Imperial, Kathryn Kain, Larry Strong, Lisa Rybovich Cralle, Mark Van Proyen, Matt Gonzalez, Matt Springman, Tony Hall "Lux & Textura: Explorations Beyond the Surface" Collages by the San Francisco College Collective curated by Danielle Rathbun at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, free, 6-9pm

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