Leo Valledor, Skeedo, 1965. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 128 inches. Collection of SFMOMA. © Estate of Leo Valledor. On view at SFMOMA in the ongoing exhibition Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture, 1900 to Now. Courtesy of SFMOMA.

Deep Cuts: Jerome Reyes on Leo Valledor
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Floor 2, Painting + Sculpture Interpretive Gallery
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
February 16, 12 pm
 

CRC directing Torch in the jungles of Belize. Courtesy of PCPI. Torch will be released in 2018.

Christopher Coppola: CRC The Juggler
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
February 16, 4:30 pm
 

Guillermo Galindo, Fluchtzieleuropaschiffbruchschallkörper, 2017. Fiberglass and wood, 3.05 x 2.88 x 1.85 meters and 2.53 x 5.4 x 1 meters respectively. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Nils Klinger.

Guillermo Galindo
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
February 20, 7 pm
 

Philippe Pirotte and Niklaus Largier in Conversation
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
February 21, 6 pm
 

Curator’s Talk: Philippe Pirotte on Agony in Effigy
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
February 22, 12 pm
 

Hung Liu’s Migrant Mother – Mealtime (2016) with Guerrilla Girls. Photograph by Manuel Braun (Paris).

Arnold J. Kemp, Claudia Schmuckli, Guerrilla Girl (Käthe Kollwitz), Claudia Altman-Siegel, Renny Pritikin, and Hung Liu
Women Who Transformed Art in the West
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
February 24, 3-5 pm
 

Mildred Howard, Frame Refrain, 2015. Bronze, 192 x 192 inches. Hunters Point Shipyard.

Mildred Howard: Parenthetically Thinking: It’s More than Glass
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
March 2, 4:30 pm
 

Prof. Brian Rose lecturing to the troops in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Courtesy of the de Young Museum.

Ancient Art Council Lecture: Archaeology, Museums, and War: Strategies for the 21st Century
de Young Museum (Koret Auditorium)
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
March 3, 2 pm
 

Mike Henderson, Thirds and Sixes, 2017. Oil on canvas; 48 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery.

Mike Henderson
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
March 6, 7 pm
 

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Aveugle Voix, 1975. Courtesy of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Curator’s Talk: Stephanie Cannizzo on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
March 8, 12 pm
 

Camille Utterback, Entangled, 2015. Custom software, computer, video cameras, projectors, scrims, lighting, two 81 x 144 inch projections. Courtesy of the artist, Haines Gallery, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Laetitia Sonami, M Eifler, and Camille Utterback: Women and New Machines
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
March 15, 6:30-8 pm
 

Trevor Paglen, Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4), 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

Trevor Paglen
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
March 16, 7 pm
 

Installation view, I have ten thousand compound eyes and each is named suffering at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2016. Photograph by GJ van Rooij. Courtesy of the artist and The Lab.

Experience It: Jon Rafman
The Lab
2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA, 94103
March 26, 6-8 pm
 

Chris Duncan
Mills College (Jane B. Aron Art Center 120 Danforth Lecture Hall)
5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613
March 28, 7-8 pm
 

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Can’t Help Myself, 2016. Multimedia, dimensions variable overall. Courtesy of Xiaoyu Weng; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Collection, 2016. Photo by David Heald. Copyright Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.

Xiaoyu Weng
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
April 3, 7 pm
 

Kent Lightfoot, Linda Yamane, Ron Goode, Vincent Medina, Fred Velasquez, Frank LaPena, and Malcolm Margolin
Invitation to a Lost World: 5,000 Years of Art from the Bay Area Shell Mounds
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
April 7, 2 pm
 

Ian Cheng: Emissaries: the Ecosystem of Simulations
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
April 9, 6:30-8 pm
 

Elad Lassry, Untitled (Eggs), 2013. Courtesy of the artist and California College of the Arts.

Elad Lassry
California College of the Arts (Timken Lecture Hall)
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
April 12, 7 pm
 

Joan Mitchell, Bracket, 1989. Oil on canvas. Three joined panels, overall: 106.5 x 185.75 inches. © Estate of Joan Mitchell. On view at SFMOMA in the ongoing exhibition Approaching American Abstraction. Courtesy of SFMOMA.

Deep Cuts: Sarah Roberts on Joan Mitchell
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Floor 4, Silver Elevator landing
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
April 13, 12 pm
 

Gabriel Menotti, APPROXIMATELY 800cm3 OF PLA exhibition, 2015. 3D-printed models, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.


Gabriel Menotti: Forensic Hallucinations

San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
April 13, 4:30 pm
 

Angela Davis: Regents Lecture 2018
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
April 16, 6:30-8 pm
 

Tariq Alvi, Two Hankies: Pony, The Bandaged Lady, 2005. Linen hanky. Courtesy of the artist.

Dodie Bellamy: Hoarding as Écriture​
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
April 20, 4:30 pm
 

Enrique Chagoya and Rupert García on Political Art
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
April 20, 6 pm

Robert Barry, Telepathic Piece, 1969. Conceptual artwork. Courtesy of the artist.

Julia Bryan-Wilson: Minds over Matter
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
April 27, 4:30 pm


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