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LUCIER/FULLMAN

June 8–14, 2013. An installation by Alvin Lucier. June 20, 2013. A performance by Ellen Fullman…

SKAER

July 19–September 12, 2013. This summer, Lucy Skaer will be at Yale Union, producing new work…

KUCHAR

Ongoing. A George Kuchar retrospective, one *picture* at a time until we’ve screened them all…

BENEFIT

June 30, 2013. Mykki Blanco performs a benefit concert at Holocene across the street…

FINLAY

Ongoing. Stephen Scobie opens the fourth in a series of Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibitions…

SUPPORT

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BEING

May 2, 2013. Hieroglyphic Being will give a 90-minute performance beginning at 9pm…

STIRLING

April 20, 2013. Michael Stirling will perform three ragas. He starts at 10pm and goes well into the morning…

ANDERSEN/FISHER

March 30/31, April 5/6, April 12/13, 2013. The films of Thom Andersen and Morgan Fisher…

HAINO

April 10, 2013. Japanese musician Keiji Haino makes a rare West Coast appearance…

KEEFER

March 22, 2013. We continue… Angie Keefer presents the fifth and final talk…

CURTIS

February 15 and 16, 2013. Charles Curtis will give two different cello performances…

SIRK

January 20, 2013. A 35mm screening of Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic Magnificent Obsession

ROADS

January 19, 2013. Musician Curtis Roads performs a 6.2 channel audio piece…

Wex

October 12–December 15, 2012. Marianne Wex presents her first show in the United States…

MARCHETTI

December 15, 2012. Patrik Csak will perform Walter Marchetti’s piano piece Natura Morta…

RENTAL

To organize a tour of the building or learn more about our various rental rates…

MOSS

November 18, 2012. Avigail Moss talks about Marianne Wex and painting as a horizon for…

AKERMAN

November 6, 2012. A 35mm screening of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman at NW Film Center..

KRAUS

November 4, 2012. The writer Chris Kraus will read from her latest book Summer of Hate…

SANDER

October 30, 2012. A screening of Helke Sander’s 1978 film The All Around Reduced Personality…

Murray/Johnson

October 25, 2012. Caitlin Murray and Tim Johnson will give a two-part talk on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay…

FELL

October 16, 2012. The first performance on the West Coast by British musician Mark Fell…

BERNSTEIN

September 30, 2012. The critic Charles Bernstein will introduce three late videos by George Kuchar…

ABOUT

Yale Union (YU) is a non-profit contemporary art center in Portland, Oregon. Our program…

PRINT SHOP

People who own the means of production think differently about the nature of production…

PLAN

Developmental, structural, and architectural plans for the future of the Yale Union Laundry Building…

Steinberg

June 16–August 10, 2012. For more than fifty years, Saul Steinberg was The New Yorker’s in-house observer and…

Fischli/Weiss

August 9, 2012. A screening of The Right Way, a film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss…

PCVA

May 7–July 30, 2011. This exhibition considers the wins and losses of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts…