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Calendar. 05.07.14.

A detail from A Land Reform 5, by Camilo Restrepo, at Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles
A detail from A Land Reform 5, by Camilo Restrepo. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit, El Sueño de la Razón Produce Monstruos, at Steve Turner Contemporary. Through May 31, in Mid-Wilshire. Do not miss this show!! (Photo by C-M.)

  • Anchorage: Gyre, The Plastic Ocean, at the Anchorage Museum. Through September 6.
  • L.A.: Rina Banerjee: Disgust, at L.A. Louver. Opens Thursday, in Venice.
  • L.A.: de LaB is organizing an architect’s home tour on the East Side of L.A. for this Saturday, starting at noon. Tickets and RSVP required.
  • Charlotte, N.C.: Aurora Robson, Stayin’ Alive, at the McColl Center for Visual Art. Opens Friday at 6pm. The exhibition is free, but RSVP is preferred for the opening. There will be an artist talk at 6:30pm.
  • Philadelphia: Michelle Handelman, Beware the Lily Law, at the Eastern State Penitentiary. Ongoing.
  • NYC: Kara Walker, A Subtlety, at the Domino Sugar Factory. Opens this Sunday at noon, in Williamsburg.
  • NYC: Charles James: Beyond Fashion, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Opens Thursday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art 1948-1988, at the Museum of Modern Art. Opens Saturday, in Midtown.
  • NYC: The Shaped Canvas, Revisited: Works from 1961-2014, at Luxembourg & Dayan. Opens next Tuesday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Sophie Calle, Rachel, Monique, at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest. Opens Friday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Lynda Barry: Everything Part 1, at Adam Baumgold Gallery. Opens next Tuesday, May 13, at 6pm.
  • NYC: Mika Rottenberg, Bowls Balls Souls Holes, at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Opens today, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Still Life, at Pace. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Hot House, a group show collaboration between Julia Kennedy, KnowMoreGames and Night Gallery. Opens Thursday at 1pm, in Harlem.
  • NYC: Matt Town, SOAP, at Microscope Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Bushwick.
  • NYC: The Outsider Art Fair, at Center 548. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • Beacon, N.Y.: Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958-2010, at Dia: Beacon. Through March 2, 2015. And whether you go or not, read this piece on Andre by Mira Schor.
  • Online: The Women of Xochiquetzal. Remarkable photographs by Bénédicte Desrus of a home for sex workers in Mexico City.
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Calendar. 04.30.14.

Nov. 19, 2013, 2014 Collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper 10 3/4 x 12 in. (27.3 x 30.5 cm) by Fred Tomaselli
Nov. 19, 2013, 2014, by Fred Tomaselli. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit, Current Events, at James Cohan Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea. There will be a gallery talk and book signing on Sunday, May 10. (Image courtesy of the artist and James Cohan.)

  • San Francisco: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Acts of God, at Fraenkel Gallery. Opens Thursday.
  • Chicago: Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Opens Saturday.
  • New Orleans: Undetermined Mass: An Art Showing, at The Art Salon and TEN Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
  • NYC: The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham with Günther Vogt, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through November 2, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Jay Defeo, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Hannah Van Bart, at Marianne Boesky. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-89, at David Zwirner. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Bruce Conner, Latifa Echakhch, Charles Gaines, Christian Marclay and Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Through May 23, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: I Dig Atari, celebrating the release of Raiford Guins’ video game history and preservation book Game After: A Cultural Study Of Video Game Afterlife, at Babycastles. This Saturday at 6pm, in Chelsea. RSVP required.
  • NYC: She Was a Film Star Before She Was My Mother, at Dorsky Gallery. Opens Sunday at 2pm, in Long Island City.
  • NYC: SEVEN/VIDEO at The Boiler, and Kim Jones, mountain girl next door, at Pierogi Gallery. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Williamsburg.
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Calendar. 04.17.14.

Wangechi Mutu, Riding Death in My Sleep, 2002 (Courtesy of the artist and MOCA North Miami)
Riding Death in My Sleep, 2002, by Wangechi Mutu. Part of the exhibit Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. (Images courtesy of the artist and MOCA.)

  • NYC: Marie Lorenz, The Valley of Dry Bones, at Jack Hanley Gallery. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Tribeca.
  • NYC: Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010, at the Museum of Modern Art. Opens Saturday, in Midtown.
  • NYC: Ai Weiwei: According to What?, at the Brooklyn Museum. Opens Friday, in Brooklyn.
  • NYC: Lebbeus Woods, at the Drawing Center. Opens today, in SoHo.
  • NYC: The New Romantics, at Eyebeam. Opens today, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Sherrie Levine, Red Yellow Blue, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Opens today, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Joel Meyerowitz, The European Trip: Photographs from the Car, at Howard Greenberg. Opens today, in Midtown.
  • NYC: Ben Berlow, Recent Works, at Rawson Projects. Through May 18, in Greenpoint.
  • Miami: Virginia Overton: Flat Rock, at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. Opens Friday, in North Miami.
  • L.A.: Stanya Kahn, Don’t Go Back to Sleep, at Susanne Vielmetter Projects. Opens Saturday, in Culver City.
  • L.A.: Meleko, Mokgosi, Pax Kaffraria, at Honor Fraser. Opens Saturday, in Culver City.
  • L.A.: Cogwheels Carved in Wood, a group show, at Night Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in downtown.
  • L.A: Elana Mann, Gala Porras-Kim, Susan Silton, After Noise, at Thomas Solomon Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Chinatown.
  • L.A.: New works by Andrea Fraser and Vanessa Place, at the MAK Center. Through June 1, in West Hollywood.
  • PLUS: The Agency of Unrealised Projects is looking for your unrealized project.
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Calendar. 04.10.14.

Swoon (American, born 1978), The Swimming Cities of Serenissima, Adriatic Sea, 2009. © Tod Seelie
The Swimming Cities of Serenissima on the Adriatic Sea. On view in Swoon: Submerged Motherlands, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Opens Friday. (Photo by Tod Seelie.)

  • Beijing: Art Post-Internet, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. Through May 5, in the Chaoyang District.
  • L.A.: Freeway Studies, at Ben Maltz Gallery. Opens Saturday, at Otis College of Art and Design, in Westchester.
  • L.A.: The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats, at the Skirball Cultural Center. Opens today, in Bel Air.
  • L.A.: Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from the Greek Collections, at the Getty Villa. Through August 25, in Malibu.
  • L.A.: Elliott Hundley, at Regen Projects. Opens Saturday, in Hollywood.
  • Orange County, Calif.: Sarkisian & Sarkisian, at the Orange County Museum of Art. Opens Sunday, in Newport Beach.
  • Tijuana: Paisaje Urban de un Presente Bizarro, with Corrie Slawson & Marc Lefkowitz, Hugo Crosthwaite, Luis G. Hernandez and Pepe Mogt, at TJ IN CHINA Project Room. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Zona Centro.
  • Chicago: Isa Genzken: Retrospective, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Opens Saturday.
  • Miami: Alexander Kroll, The Sky on the Flor, at Fredric Snitzer. Opens today, in the Wynwood District.
  • NYC: Masterpieces and Curiosities: Diane Arbus’s Jewish Giant, at the Jewish Museum. Opens Friday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Now You See It: Photography and Concealment, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through September 1, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: I Scarcely Have the Right to Use This Ghostly Verb, at the Sheila Johnson Design Center. Through April 16, at Parson the New School of Design.
  • NYC: Malick Sidibé, at Jack Shainman Gallery. Through April 26, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Thank You, the final show at Dodge Gallery. Opens today, on the Lower East Side.
  • NYC: The Heroic Object, at Parallel Art Space. Through May 11, in Ridgewood.
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Calendar. 04.02.14.

Rose Quartz Eroded Tire, 2014 by Daniel Arsham
Rose Quartz Eroded Tire, 2014, by Daniel Arsham. Part of the artist’s solo show, Kick the Tire and Light the Fires, at OHWOW Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Beverly Hills. (Image courtesy of the artist and OHWOW.)

  • Pasadena: Face It: The Photographic Portrait, at the Norton Simon Museum. Opens Friday.
  • L.A.: Javier Téllez, Games Are Forbidden in the Labyrinth, at REDCAT. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in downtown.
  • L.A.: Antonia Wright, Suddenly We Jumped, at Luis de Jesus. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
  • L.A.: Roberto Gil de Montes, Hecho en México, at Lora Schlesinger Gallery. Opens Saturday at 4:30pm, in Santa Monica.
  • L.A.: Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins of the Americas, at the Fowler Museum. Through July 20, in Westwood. Related: Artists Judithe Hernandez and Alma Lopez have a conversation about Saints, Warrior and Women at the museum this Saturday at 2pm.
  • S.F.: Elise Ferguson, Striped Knot, at Romer Young Gallery. Opens Friday at 6pm.
  • NYC: Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1963-74, at the Brooklyn Museum. Opens today, in Brooklyn.
  • NYC: Are Your Motives Pure? Raymond Pettibon Surfers, 1987-2012, at Venus Over Manhattan. Opens Thursday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Dan Witz, NY Hardcore, at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Moving Murals: Henry Chalfant’s and Martha Cooper’s All-City Graffiti Archive, at the City Lore Gallery. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in the East Village.
  • NYC: Sometimes We Explode: An Exhibition of Underground NYC Through Video Games and Hip Hop, at Babycastles Gallery. With a special performance by Ratking. Opens next Tuesday at 6pm, on 14th Street. Follow this link to RSVP for the opening.
  • NYC: Joe Sola, American Sex Room and Other Works, at Blackston Gallery. Opens Sunday, on the Lower East Side.
  • NYC: Parallax Reveries: Stereoscopic Collage by Joel Schlemowitz, at Microscope Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Bushwick.
  • Toronto: Susana Heller, at Olga Korper Gallery. Opens Saturday, at 2pm.
  • Toronto: Eva Kotátková, at Art en Valise. Opens Thursday.
  • Online: Nikki Darling, Ascension, at Light & Wire.
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Calendar. 03.26.14.

Untitled, 2012-13, by Helen Pashgian
Untitled, 2012-2013, by Helen Pashgian. Part of the artist’s solo show, Light Invisible, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, in Los Angeles. Opens Sunday, in Mid-Wilshire. (Courtesy of Helen Pashgian. Photograph by Josh Morton.)

  • L.A.: Heaven and Earth: Byzantine Illumination at the Culture Crossroads, at the Getty Museum. Through June 22, in West L.A.
  • L.A.: (en)Gendered (in)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project, at ForYourArt. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
  • L.A.: Allen Ruppersberg, Drawing and Writing, 1972-1989, at Marc Selwin. Through May 17, in Beverly Hills.
  • Torrance: Prep School: Prepper & Survivalist Ideologies and Utopian/Dystopian Visions, at the Torrance Art Museum. Opens Saturday.
  • Miami: Anselm Kiefer, at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse. Through April 26, in the Wynwood District.
  • NYC: When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, at the Studio Museum. Opens Thursday, in Harlem.
  • NYC: Matthias Bitzer: Saturnine Swing, at Marianne Boesky Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Heather Rowe, William Monk, Richard T. Walker, at James Cohan Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Daniel Canogar, Small Data, at Bitforms. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Allan Wexler, Breaking Ground, at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: 1st 20 Years, at Adam Baumgold Gallery. Opens today at 6pm, on the Upper East Side.
  • Madrid: Eltono, Amalgama, at Slowtrack. Opens Thursday.
  • Belgium: Stephan Balkenhol, at Deweer Gallery. Opens Sunday at 3pm, in Otegem.
  • Hong Kong: Billy Childish: Edge of the Forest, at Lehmann Maupin. Opens Thursday.
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Calendar. 03.20.14.

Lew Thomas, Polaroid Hand (B&W&C), 1972/2014 at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
Polaroid Hand (B&W&C), 1972/2014, by Lew Thomas. Part of the artist’s solo exhibition Structural(ism) and Photography, at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles. Opens Saturday at 4pm, in Culver City. (Image courtesy of the artist and Cherry and Martin.)

  • L.A.: Stephen Prina: Take It or Leave It, a live solo concert, at the Hammer Museum. Tonight at 7:30pm, in Westwood.
  • L.A.: Ryan Trecartin: Four New Movies, at the L.A. County Museum of Art. Next Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30pm, in Mid-Wilshire.
  • L.A.: Closing reception for Out of Sight Out of Mind, at Machine Project. This Sunday at 6pm, in Echo Park.
  • L.A.: John Tweddle and Ken Price, at Kayne Griffin Corcoran. Through May 3, in Mid-City.
  • L.A.: Patricia Fernández, Paseo de los Melancólicos, and Rebecca Morris, Fantastic L.A., at LAXART. Through April 26, in Culver City.
  • Seattle: Rick Prelinger, No More Road Trips?, at the Henry Art Gallery. This Friday at 7pm, at the University of Washington.
  • NYC: Danny Licul, Model Citizens, at Gallery Sensei. Opens Friday, on the Lower East Side.
  • NYC: Bystander, a new performance by Liz Magic Laser, at The Kitchen. This looks like it’s gonna be the shizzle. Starts next Thursday, in Chelsea. Tickets on sale now.
  • NYC: Leigh Ledare, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Ben Gocker, Scaredy Cat City, at PPOW Gallery. Opens today, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Jeffrey Vallance and Carla Klein, at Tanya Bonakdar. Opens today, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Katie Armstrong, Dark Spring, at BravinLee. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Coding the Body, at Apexart. Opens today, in Tribeca.
  • NYC: Steve Powers (aka ESPO) will be presenting his new book, A Love Letter to the City, at the Strand. Next Tuesday at 7pm, in the Village.
  • Boston: Permission to be Global: Latin American Art from the Ellan Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Through July 13.
  • London: Carolee Schneeman, Water Light/Water Needle, at the Hales Gallery. Through April 12.
  • Frankfurt: The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisted by Contemporary African Artists, at the Museum Für Modern Kunst. Opens Friday.
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Calendar. 03.12.14.

How to Try and be OK with the Contemporary Art Market. Oil on Canvas. 42” x 56”. 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery.
How to Try and be OK with the Contemporary Art Market, 2014 by William Powhida. Part of the artist’s solo exhibition, Overculture, at Postmasters Gallery, opening Saturday at 5:30pm, in New York. (Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters. See it large.)

  • L.A.: Michaela Eichwald, Barry Johnston, Mathias Kryger, Frances Scholz, Jill Spector, at Tif Sigfrids. Opens Saturday at 4pm, in Hollywood.
  • L.A.: Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes, at the Huntington Library. Opens Saturday, in San Marino.
  • L.A.: Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork, at the Autry. Opens Saturday, in Griffith Park.
  • L.A.: The Architecture and Design Film Festival, at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Starts today, in downtown.
  • L.A.: Drowning and swallowing this text, with various artists, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Opens Friday at 7pm, in Hollywood.
  • L.A.: Ron Athey: Sebastiane, at the Hammer Museum. Tomorrow at 7:30pm, in Westwood.
  • S.F.: Katy Grannan: The 99, at Fraenkel Gallery.
  • New Orleans: The Donna Perret Rosen Lecture: Calvin Tomkins, Dodie Kazanjian and Adam D. Weinberg, at the New Orleans Museum of Art. This Friday at 6pm.
  • NYC: Other Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum. Opens Friday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Museum Starter Kit: Open With Care, at El Museo del Barrio. Opens today, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Bill Cunningham: Facades and The Black Fives, at the New-York Historical Society. Opens Friday on the Upper West Side.
  • NYC: Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937, at the Neue Galerie. Opens Thursday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Carpets of the East in Paintings of the West, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through June 29, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection, at the Rubin Museum of Art. Through March 2015, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, at the Museum of Modern Art. Opens Saturday, in Midtown.
  • NYC: Oswaldo Vigas: Transfigurations, at Dillon Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Sharon Hayes, Fingernails on a blackboard, at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Jerome Liebling: Matter of Life and Death, at Steven Kasher Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy: Drawing Lessons, at the Drawing Center. Opens Saturday, in SoHo. Groups need to reserve in advance to see the performance.
  • NYC: Ali Banisadr, Motherboard, at Sperone Westwater. Through April 19, on the Lower East Side.
  • London: Haim Steinbach: once again the world is flat, at the Serpentine Galleries. Through April 21.
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