This week is brought to you by this postcard I received of a giant cat in Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes. Thank you, Logan and JD!
- Nate Boyce has two of his wonderfully strange constructions that combine video and sculpted metal installed on the third floor of Japantown's New People building. See them before the show closes tomorrow.
- Anne McGuire was predictably amazing at SFMOMA last weekend performing alongside electronic musician Wobbly and a video doppelganger of herself. The museum's Stage Presence live series continues to blow me away, and Cliff Hengst's performances this weekend are not to be missed either.
- The Headlands talk about creating social space last weekend started late and so I was only able to stay for John Bela's and Yukiko Bowman's portions of it, but I'm sure Matilde Cassani was equally as fascinating as those first two based on what I've seen of her work. Now I'm very much looking forward to Sandra Ono's drop-in workshop on Sunday. Bioforms ahoy!
- This week I finally made it to the Contemporary Jewish Museum's small-but-mighty group exhibition Do Not Destroy, worth seeing for Zadok Ben David's enchanting Blackfield installation alone. The show is themed around trees and has many other sublime moments too. It closes on September 9.
- Meanwhile over in Oakland an old house at 1506 Peralta is currently filled top-to-bottom with art installations for the appropriately-named House Show. Many artists I like a whole lot are involved, including Facundo Argañaraz, Sarah Bernat, The Center For Tactical Magic, Matthew Draving, Aaron Harbour and Jackie Im, Cybele Lyle, and Zachary Royer Scholz. To say anything more would ruin some of the site-specific surprises, but do try to visit before the show closes next weekend and at night if you can.
