yacht club gallery presents:

yacht club gallery presents:

F*CK YOU / COMMENTARY, CRITICISM

Opening: Saturday, June 16th, 6-10pm
2750 Yemans
Hamtramck, MI 48212

exhibiting artists: Mary Addison Hackett (Los Angeles); Nevin Tomlinson (Chicago); Dick Goody & Jef Bourgeau (Detroit); Jose Ruiz (NY); Andre Ethier (Toronto); Dylan Spaysky (Detroit)


yacht club gallery’s inaugural exhibition aims to showcase contemporary works that address or actively rebuff standard notions of critical evaluation and acceptance in art. But this is not a reactionary show; it is rather pro-active in its anti-critical stance. Included works both directly and indirectly address the role of criticism in the contemporary art community and its relationship to artists in the act of creation.

yacht club gallery

248.709.9747

Directions here

- ann gordon

Terra Incognita II

Film Screening
Friday June 15
7pm
Sliding scale $5-$10

New Langton Arts and San Francisco Cinematheque present Terra Incognita II, an evening featuring the work of Abbas Kiarostami. We will be screening Roads of Kiarostami and A Taste of Cherry. These screenings supplement the ongoing exhibit Critical Foreground, a group show of international contemporary artists whose works foreground the representation and manipulation of landscape.

Abbas Kiarostami (b. 1940, Tehran) is a master of modern cinema and one of the few Iranian filmmakers to enjoy fame in the Western world. He has made such classic films as The Wind Will Carry Us, Through the Olive Trees, and Close Up. His films are distinguished by their simplicity; a poetic meditation slowly deepens into a sophisticated dialogue that mixes nature and culture, fact and fiction. In 1998, he became the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with A Taste of Cherry.

Program
Roads of Kiarostami (2005), 32 min
*Taste of Cherry (1997), 95 min
*Please note that we will be screening a digital version

Roads of Kiarostami makes a thoughtful probe into the connection between still photography and film. The camera follows the paths in Kiarostami's landscape photography, widening out to show the pathway's scenic context. Narrated by Kiarostami and set to a musical score, the paths are poetry: "ways of love, ways of escape...ways which destroy us, ways without conclusion like stagnant water..." (Kiarostami, 2005.) Here, the conclusion is not stagnant, but explosive; the film creates a hand-wringing anxiety about the future of our world.

Taste of Cherry follows the journey of a middle-aged man who is going to end his life. Seeking the help of someone to bury him if he succeeds, or to rescue him if the attempt fails, the characters he meets on his drive through the area surrounding Tehran all refuse to assist him, and their the diverse reasonings form the dialogue. This simple fable delivers complex meditations on life, death, and Iran.

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New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
For further information: 415.626.5416
www.newlangtonarts.org

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Rail night

Rail invites you to our openings, open hours and events on Friday June 15th from 6pm onwards.

Ampersand and Ping Pong open their new shows, TART has open hours for its current show which is being reviewed for Artweek magazine and Silverman has an event planned.

Rail's actions include monthly coordinated openings, projects across all Rail venues, an online resource, hosting of national and international visiting artists, curators and critics. Rail recently participated in an International Archive Meeting at The Zurich Schedalle.

Rail's artwalk was a trip! -- a journey of discovery, sociability, and unexpected aesthetic delights. It's a perfect opportunity to explore what's germinating in the San Francisco art scene and to tour this developing area of the city - Marcia Tanner, curator and writer.

Look forward to seeing you, Rail.

Jump (Break Up)

A portrait of our 'skipper' Oliver Farley who recently performed at TART is featured in Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton's show at Gallery Paule Anglim.

Printed Matter

Dear TART,

Please join us Thursday, June 7th from 5:00 - 7:00 pm at Printed Matter to celebrate the publication of the fourth volume of Between Artists: Amy Sillman & Gregg Bordowitz. Between Artists is a series of small format, conversation based books edited by Alejandro Cesarco. The books document different positions and strategies of leading and up-and-coming contemporary artists.

Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets. The artists will be present.

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A.R.T. Press is the publishing arm of Art Resources Transfer, Inc., a nonprofit, tax exempt organization founded in 1987 and dedicated to establishing access to the arts through publishing and community-oriented distribution. Art Resources Transfer is committed to documenting and supporting artists' voices and work, and to making these voices accessible to the broadest possible public. Since its founding, Art Resources Transfer has maintained two interconnected program areas: publishing (A.R.T. Press), and the free distribution of books to underserved communities (D.U.C. Program).

For additional information on these programs, as well as ordering this and other A.R.T. Press titles please visit http://artresourcestransfer.org/artpress.php

Ms. Homeland Security

Hi all,

I wanted to let you know that Ms. Homeland Security:Illegal Entry Dress Tent will be performed, for one night only at The San Jose Museum of Art this Thursday evening, June 7, 6-8PM.

I hope to spy on some of you there!!!!

Robin.

Marilyn Minter in conversation with...