The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF)—the three-day event that showcases the Bay Area’s lasting engagement with everything counterculture, returns next week to Minnesota Street Project (MSP) for its fourth edition. Organized by Colpa, Minnesota Street Project, and Park Life, SFABF presents a spectrum of publications, from artists’ books, catalogues, monographs, periodicals, zines, to antique ephemera, and multiples, from more 100 publishers, dealers, artists, and galleries. For 2019, thirteen international exhibitors join the party that includes thirty exhibitors new to the fair. Info Above, Left: April Dawn Alison, Untitled (n.d.); right: April Dawn Alison, Untitled (n.d.); images courtesy of SFMOMA and MACK

Among the highlights of the public programs, which include talks, book launches, special projects and signings are:

Saturday, July 20, 12-6pm
Over and Over, Again and Againby Allen Ruppersberg and Thomas Cvikota (2018); Directed by Lucas Cvikota; Soundtrack by Allen Ruppersberg 
Over and Over, Again and Again, documents the typewritten index cards that accompany a collection of 78 rpm records donated by Barrie H. Thorpe to the Batavia Public Library in Illinois. The cards identify the artist/performer, date and title of each recording from Thorpe’s collection along with anecdotal information and his personal commentary. The Thorpe Collection of 48,000 78's was the first major donation to the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project. The accompanying soundtrack is a collage of movie soundtracks, sound effects, experimental music, musique concrete, pop songs, and miscellaneous recordings. The screening will show a section of the 13-hour work-in-progress film.

Saturday, July 20, 2-3pm
April Dawn Alison, with Andrew Masullo and Erin O’Toole
April Dawn Alison was published by MACK to accompany an exhibition of the same name now on view at SFMOMA. The book features previously unseen Polaroids made over the course of thirty years by April Dawn Alison, the feminine persona of male photographer Alan Shaefer, based in Oakland. Erin O’Toole, curator of the exhibition and editor of the book, will discuss Alison’s work with the painter Andrew Masullo, who gave Alison’s archive to the museum.

Saturday, July 20, 3-4pm
Steven Leiber Catalogs
A public program on Steven Leiber and his dealer catalogs. David Senior will moderate a panel discussion focusing on the catalogs as well as the art that Steven Leiber collected, sold and celebrated. Panelists include: Alexandra Bowes (art collector), Arnaud Desjardin (artist and owner of The Everyday Press) Amber Hasselbring (former Steven Leiber Basement Manager) David Kasprzak (artist and co-owner of Colpa Press) and Adam Michaels (designer of teven Leiber Catalogs and owner of Inventory Press.)

Sunday, July 21, 12pm-1pm 
Thoughts on a Black Aesthetic
This hybrid screening / performative lecture will feature varied observations on black representation that carry with them a distinct, personal viewpoint. Through these acts, The Black Aesthetic will ruminate on the themes of lineage, context, and collaboration

The  San Francisco Art Book Fair runs from Friday, July 19 through Sunday, July 21 and is free and open to the public. Info  @sfartbookfair, #sfabf2019

Above: Gordon Parks, Boy with June Bug, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1963; at Jenkins Johnson Gallery 

This week’s DART Board features San Francisco exhibitions and events:

Thursday, July 11

Opening: Lee Friedlander | Signs, 5:30-7:30 pm. Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening: David Burnett | We Chose to Go to the Moon, 6-8 pm. Leica Store SF, 463 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening: Yamamoto Masao | Bonsai; Microcosms Macrocosms, 5:30-7:30 pm. Robert Koch Gallery, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Saturday, July 13

Opening: Clare Strand, Lebohang Kganye, Liza Ambrossio, Rachel Phillips, Julia Goodman: Present Objects, 6-8 pm. Equinom Gallery, 1295 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening: Likeness | Maurizio Anzeri, Kota Ezawa, Mike Henderson, Taha Heydari, Matt Lipps, Aimé Mpane & Shirin Neshat, 5:30-7:30pm. Haines Gallery, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening: Between Them: Drawings by Rut Asawa, Bruce Conner, Nam June Paik, William T Wiley and more, 6-8 pm. Hosfelt Gallery, 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA. Info

Opening: Kate Nartker & Leigh Wells | scratch the surface, 4-6 pm. Jack Fischer Gallery, 311 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening: (On Approval) Beta Launch, 5-8 pm. Ever Gold [Projects]/Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening: Lewis Watts | Photographs; Robert Minervini | Future Collapse, 5-7 pm. Rena mbrell, Bransten Gallery, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening: What Is Left Behind | Pegan Brooks, Carolina Hayes Charuk, Alika Cooper, Ricki Dwyer, Margaret Timbrell, 6-8 pm. Eleanor Harwood Gallery, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Friday, July 19

Opening: Summer Sessions Part 1 | The Lands Beyond: Ricki Dwyer, Ell Thorn, Maryam Youslf, 4-7 pm. Angli Gilbert Gallery, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Continuing

Summertime | Wesaam Al-Badry, Ben Aronson, Scott Fraser, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Hendrik Kerstens, Aida Muluneh, Blessing Ngobeni, and Gordon Parks. Jenkins Johnson Gallery, 464 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Firelai Báez, How to slip out of your body quietly; at the Contemporary Jewish Museum 

In Museums

Opening July 13: Monica Lo, Felicity Chen | At the Table, 6-8 pm. Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Opening July 26: Oxossl Ayofami | Black Matter. Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Continuing

Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold | Colonialis in the Carribean/10 contemporary artists. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street, San Fransisco, CA Info

What is an edition, anyway? McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, 1150 25^thStreet Building B, San Francisco, CA Info

April Dawn Alison| Polaroids. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA Info