Zoe Crosher, Unlit Lightbox No. 1, LA-Like: the Actual Shangri-LA’d Disappearing Wall, 2015. Photograph, 17 x 55 inches. Courtesy of the artist and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Zoe Crosher
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
September 20, 7-9 pm
Ed Ruscha, Desert Gravure, 2006. Photogravure, 21 1/4 x 24 3/4 inches. Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco. Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Crown Point Press Archive, gift of Crown Point Press, 2006.94.2 © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Panel Discussion: Printing Ed Ruscha
de Young Museum (Koret Auditorium)
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
September 23, 7 pm
Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, School Supplies Distribution by Forest Resident Association, 2013. Forest Houses, the Bronx, New York. Photograph by Romain Lopez. Courtesy of Dia Art Foundation and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Thomas Hirschhorn
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
September 23, 7-9 pm
Nora Taylor
The Artist as Historian: Southeast Asian Art’s Engagement with Archives
UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Dwinelle Hall 3335, Berkeley, CA 94720
September 29, 4-5:30 pm
Enrique Chagoya, Contra el bien general, 1983-2001 from Homage to Goya II: Disasters of War. Courtesy of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Enrique Chagoya on Goya’s Los proverbios
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
September 30, 4:30-6 pm
Mai-Thu Perret, Banner for Sun Ra, 2006. Appliqué on cotton fabric, 70.9 x 59 inches. Courtesy of the San Francisco Art Institute.
Huey Copeland
Solar Ethic
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
September 30, 4:30-6 pm
Geoffrey Farmer, Let’s Make The Water Turn Black, 2013. Multimedia installation, dimensions variable. Photograph by Rachel Topham. Courtesy of Vancouver Art Gallery and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Geoffrey Farmer
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
October 4, 7-9 pm
Sharon Lockhart, Milena, Jarosław, Poland, 2013, 2014. Courtesy of Pier 24 Photography and California College of the Arts.
Sharon Lockhart
California College of the Arts (Timken Lecture Hall)
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
October 5, 7 pm
Photograph by Jonathan Worth. Courtesy of Cory Doctorow.
Cory Doctorow
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Phyllis Wattis Theater)
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
October 6, 7 pm
Brad Kahlhamer, Super Catcher (detail), 2014. Mixed media, 132 x 132 x 12 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Brad Kahlhamer In Conversation With Gary Garrels
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
October 11, 7-9 pm
An Evening with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Phyllis Wattis Theater)
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
October 13, 7 pm
Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, STS-109 mission specialist, peers into Columbia’s crew cabin during a brief break in work on the Hubble Space Telescope, latched down just a few feet behind him in Columbia’s cargo bay, during his second extravehicular activity of STS109 on March 5, 2002. Courtesy of NASA and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
Mike Massimino & Adam Savage
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
October 16, 3 pm
Tom Sachs, Landing Excursion Module (LEM), 2007. Steel, plywood, resin, electronics, and assorted found objects, 277 x 263 x 263 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Tom Sachs
Sculpture, Simulacrum, Ritual
UC Berkeley (Sutardja Dai Hall, Main Auditorium)
Berkeley, CA 94720
October 17, 6:30-8 pm
Ant Farm, Media Burn, July 4, 1975. Performance at the Cow Palace, San Francisco. Collection of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Photograph © John F. Turner.
Mind Over Matter: Gallery Talk with Curator Constance Lewallen
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
October 19, 12:15 pm
Courtesy of Jürg Lehni.
Jürg Lehni
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Phyllis Wattis Theater)
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
October 20, 7 pm
Ned Kahn, Negev Wheel, 2016. Sand, steel, and motor, 20 feet in diameter. Courtesy of Ned Kahn Studios and The Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Ned Kahn In Conversation With Renny Pritikin
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
October 20, 6:30-8 pm
Howard Fried, Condom (video still), 1979. Digital transfer from videocassette, 36 minutes. Courtesy of the artist, The BOX, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Howard Fried
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
October 25, 6-8 pm
Diana Shpungin, Drawing Of A House (Triptych) – daytime view, 2015. House, graphite pencil and nine-channel hand drawn video animation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Diana Shpungin
Drawing From Empathy
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
October 28, 4:30-6 pm
Koki Tanaka, A Pottery Produced by 5 Potters at Once (Silent Attempt), 2013. Created in collaboration with Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou) and The Pavilion (Beijing). Courtesy of the artist, Vitamin Creative Space, Aoyama Meguro, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Koki Tanaka
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
November 1, 7-9 pm
Viviane Sassen, Belladonna, 2010. Courtesy of Pier 24 Photography and California College of the Arts.
Viviane Sassen
California College of the Arts (Timken Lecture Hall)
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
November 2, 7 pm
Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Brice Dellsperger, and Lola Lefron
Gender in Translation: After Hours
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
November 4, 4:30-6 pm
Andrei Codrescu lying on the guest-bed of an art collector under a portrait of Mao by Andy Warhol.
Andrei Codrescu
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
November 8, 7-9 pm
Dara Birnbaum, Erwartung/Expenctancy, 2001. Video project, duraclear photo print, four suspended Plexiglas panels, 8 x 4 x 1 feet, 11:28 min. sex video. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, and San Francisco Art Institute.
Dara Birnbaum
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
November 15, 7-9 pm
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Exilee (slides), 1980. 13 black and white slides. Collection of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation. Courtesy of BAMPFA.
Lawrence Rinder on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
500 Capp Street Foundation
500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
November 17, 7 pm
Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010. Photograph by Marco Anelli. © 2010 Marco Anelli. Courtesy of City Arts & Lectures.
Marina Abramović In Conversation With Maria Popova
City Arts & Lectures (Nourse Theater)
275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
November 17, 7:30 pm
Yung Jake, Jay Z., emoji.ink. Courtesy of the artist and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Yung Jake: A Lecture
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
November 18, 4:30-6 pm
Mike Tyka, Groovik’s Cube, 2009-2014. LED lights, re-usable scaffolding, recycled materials, and electronic componenets, 35 feet high. Installation view, Burning Man, Nevada, 2009.
Mike Tyka
Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination
UC Berkeley (Sutardja Dai Hall, Main Auditorium)
Berkeley, CA 94720
November 28, 6:30-8 pm
Installation view, Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2014. Photograph by Brian Forrest. Courtesy of the Hammer Museum and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Johanna Burton
Atmosphere and Affect in Contemporary Exhibitions
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
December 2, 4:30-6 pm
Dr. Frank Summers
Truth and Beauty in Astronomy Visualization
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
December 5, 7:30 pm
Reuben Margolin, Yellow Spiral, 2009. 12,000 yellow beads, string, wire, aluminum, steel, and three motors, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Reuben Margolin
The Peaks and Valleys of Kinetic Sculpture
UC Berkeley (Sutardja Dai Hall, Main Auditorium)
Berkeley, CA 94720
December 5, 6:30-8 pm
Rebecca Solnit In Conversation With Maria Popova
City Arts & Lectures (Nourse Theater)
275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
December 12, 7:30 pm
