Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet Fort Mason Center for Arts + Culture, Gallery 308, San Francisco CA November 14, 2015 – January 18, 2016 …

David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street 2016 After years of tireless renovations, David Ireland’s house at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, opened to the …

First Chapter : Des Absents Cercle de la Horla 16, rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris October 23 – December 17, 2015 (Read part one of the …

I assure you, my cemetery has no recollection Of unmarked mass graves, scattered bone fragments; That skull and cross-bones over the gate? Added by Disney— …

Deborah Kass: No Kidding Paul Kasmin Gallery 515 West 27th St., New York, NY 10001 December 9, 2015 – January 23, 2016 When someone says “no …

Cold Storage: Rhonda Holberton and James Cordas City Limits 300 Jefferson Street Oakland, CA. 94607 November 20 – December 19, 2015 City Limits is presenting …

What if the technology from Google Street View was used for more than superficial spying? What if the code-writing idealists among us turned their sights …

Chris Lux: With Nude Spoons Et al. 620 Kearny St., San Francisco CA 94108 November 13 – December 19, 2015 Entering Chris Lux’s solo exhibition …

I was late to the Mark Lombardi party. It was not until the beginning of 2004 that I had ever heard about him or his …

Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s–Now Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland CA 94613 September 16 – December 13, 2015 In reading the title for …

Art Basel Miami Beach December 3 – 6, 2015 My, how color has returned! Dealers and artists certainly did not shy away from bold, outrageous …

From the Singular to the Indexical in Contemporary Portraiture For the past 14 years Paul Mpagi Sepuya has lived in New York and worked as a …

An old, white fishing boat journeys up and down the Bosphorus from the Golden Horn and is seen from various places in Istanbul throughout the …

James Welling: Choreograph David Zwirner 519 West 19th Street, New York NY 10011 November 18, 2015 – January 16, 2016 I was trained in classical ballet, …

Julian Hoeber: The Inward Turn Jessica Silverman Gallery 488 Ellis St., San Francisco CA 94102 November 6 – December 19, 2015 Upon entering Julian Hoeber’s …

The Mapmaker’s Dream: Marius Bercea, Maurizio Anzeri, Linda Connor, Chris McCaw, Pae White. Haines Gallery 49 Geary Street, Suite 540, San Francisco, CA 94108 November …

China Now: Independent Visions Cinema on the Edge Global Tour San Francisco (various locations) November 19-22, 2015 Pace Godard, “The problem is not to make …

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Chris Johanson: Equations Altman Siegel 49 Geary St, [4th floor], San Francisco CA 94108 November 6 – December 19, 2015 Being in a room of …

“elevates copying to an art, but”1 In March, at Brown University, white conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith stood before an audience and read his new “poem,” which was …