Category: Museums

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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If you’re hitting the Mike Kelley show at MoCA…

Mike Kelley's Chinatown Wishing Well at MoCA

The Mike Kelley show at MOCA Geffen has a whole lot of everything going on: child nightmare videos, weird banners, scary stuffed animal sculptures, night-light installations of the fictional Kandor, and architectural models of every school Kelly ever went to. There’s also his “Chinatown Wishing Well,” above, his tribute, to a similarly garish fountain located in L.A.’s Chinatown.

It’s a lot to absorb. But while you’re at it, don’t forget to take a peek under and inside many of his pieces, since they often seem to contain little surprises. Under the architectural models, you’ll find a mattress; a pink dresser hides books about sex and a packet of birth control pills; and inside the “Wishing Well” is a mattress, a box of Kleenex, some candles and tub of Vaseline. (This latter space he once described as a “crawl space/fuck room.”)

All of it certainly gets at aspects of the forbidden he often explored in his work. But they also serve as a reminder that if you’re just looking at the literal surface of his pieces, you’re missing a good chunk of the story.

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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. 03.05.13.

Maria Lassnig Sciencia 1998 at MoMA PS1
Sciencia, 1998, by Maria Lassnig. On view as part of the artist’s solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, which coincides with a show of work by Christoph Schlingensief. Opens Sunday, in Long Island City. (Image courtesy of MoMA PS1.)

  • NYC: 2014 Whitney Biennial, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Opens Friday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: The Whitney Houston Biennial, at 20 Jay Street. This Sunday at 8pm, in Dumbo.
  • NYC: Gaugin: Metamorphoses, at the Museum of Modern Art. Opens Saturday, in Midtown.
  • NYC: Mira Schendel, at Hauser & Wirth. Through April 26, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: AFTERSHOCK: The Impact of Radical Art (Minors Not Permitted), at Edelman Arts. Through May 12.
  • NYC: Mingei: Are You Here?, at Pace Gallery. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Beatrice Caracciolo, Cinabrese, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Jorge Pardo, Inert, at Petzel. Through April 5, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Aki Sasamoto: Sunny in the Furnace, at The Kitchen. Daily from Thursday through Sunday at 8pm, in Chelsea. Tickets $15.
  • NYC: Beth Krebs, Beat the Band, at Station Independent Projects. Opens today at 6pm, on the Lower East Side.
  • Peekskill, N.Y.: Carla Gannis, The Non-Facial Recognition Project, at the WCC Center for Digital Arts. Through April 5.
  • Northampton, Mass.: Maya Lin, the 11th Annual Miller Lecture in Art and Art History, at the Smith College Museum of Art. Next Tuesday at 7:30pm at Wright Hall.
  • L.A.: Andrea Fraser performs May I Help You?, at the Hammer Museum. This Saturday from 3-5pm, in Westwood.
  • L.A.: Taryn Simon, Birds of the West Indies, at Gagosian Gallery. Through April 12, in Beverly Hills.
  • L.A.: Finishing School in collaboration with artists Nadia Afghani and Matt Fisher, We Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust, at Occidental College. Starts Friday, in Eagle Rock.
  • Marseilles: ASCO & Friends: Exiled Portraits, at Friche Belle de Mai. Opens Saturday.
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Calendar. 02.19.14.

Performa Obscura, by Athi-Patra Ruga, in collaboration with Mikhael Subotzky
Performa Obscura, by Athi-Patra Ruga, in collaboration with Mikhael Subotzky. Part of the exhibit Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in collaboration with SFMOMA, in San Francisco. Opens Friday. (Photo: Ruth Simbao, courtesy Athi-Patra Ruga.)

  • Oakland: Rick Prelinger, Lost Landscapes of Oakland, a screening, at the Oakland Museum of California. This Saturday at 3pm.
  • Claremont, Calif.: Andrea Bowers: #sweetjane, at the Pomona College of Art Museum, and the Pitzer College Galleries. Through April 13.
  • L.A.: Masood Kamandy, M.O.O.P. (Matter Out of Place), and Josh Reames, #PAINTING, at Luis de Jesus. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
  • L.A.: Raster Raster, at Aran Cravey. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in West Hollywood.
  • L.A.: In 2040…, at Jaus. Opens Friday at 6:30pm, in Santa Monica
  • Fort Worth: Art and Appetite: American Art, Culture, and Cuisine, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Opens Saturday.
  • St. Louis: Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013, at the Contemporary Art Museum. Through April 13.
  • New Orleans: Mel Chin: Rematch, at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
  • NYC: Medium As Muse: Woodcuts and the Modern Book, at the Morgan Library & Museum. Opens Friday, in Midtown.
  • NYC: Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, at the Guggenheim Museum. Opens Friday on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Lucas Samaras: Offerings From a Restless Soul, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Opens Monday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Kelley Walker, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Implicit Horizon, at Mixed Greens. Through March 15, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Erwin Redl, In Motion, at Bitforms Gallery. Through March 15, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Katie Bell, Light Weight, at Mixed Greens. Through March 15, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Re-View: Onnasch Colleciton, at Hauser & Wirth. Through April 12, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Jeff Baij, Yautja Moms, at Interstate. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Bushwick.
  • London: A Not So Still Life: Naked Portraits by Lucien Freud, at Luxembourg & Dayan. Through April 5.
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Calendar. 02.05.14.

David Wojnarowicz, The Death of American Spirituality, 1987, at the Hammer Museum's
The Death of American Spirituality, 1987, by David Wojnarowicz. Part of the exhibition Take it or Leave It: Institution, Image, Idealogy, at the Hammer Museum. Opens Sunday, in Westwood. (Collection of John Carlin and Renee Dossick. Courtesy of the Hammer.)

  • L.A.: A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography, and Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Tense, at the Getty Museum. Through June 8, in West L.A.
  • L.A.: Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, at the L.A. County Museum of Art. Through July 20, in Mid-City.
  • L.A.: Love is in the Air, at 2A Gallery. Opens Saturday, with an opening reception this Sunday at 7pm, in Downtown.
  • Hartford: Allison Schulnik, Matrix 168, at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Opens Thursday.
  • NYC: Doug Wheeler, at David Zwirner. Opens Thursday, at the 20th Street location, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Julije Knifer, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Deborah Brown, Outer Limits, and Misrepresentation, a group exhibition, at Lesley Heller Workspace. Opens Thursday at 6pm, on the Lower East Side.
  • NYC: Intimate Science, at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design. Opens Thursday, in the Village.
  • NYC: Cassius Fouler, Painting is the Curse of the Drinking Class, at Pandemic Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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Calendar 01.29.14.

National Life Insurance Company Building. Project, 1924–25, by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives
National Life Insurance Company Building, project, 1924–25, by Frank Lloyd Wright. Part of the exhibit Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, opening Saturday. (Image courtesy of MoMA and The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives.)

  • NYC: Carrie Mae Weems, The Museum Series, at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Opens Thursday, in Harlem.
  • NYC: Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, at the Metropolitan Museum. Opens today, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: The Flowering of Edo Era Painting, at the Metropolitan Museum. Opens Saturday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Hassan Hajjaj: Kesh Angels, at Taymour Grahne. Through March 2, in Tribeca
  • NYC: Shirin Neshat: Our House is On Fire, at the Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Indie Tech Talks #16: Eddo Stern, at the NYU Game Innovation Lab. This Thursday at 7pm, in downtown Brooklyn.
  • NYC: Resisting surveillance in practical and day-to-day situations, a panel with Adam Harvey, Geneviewe Hoffman, Becky Hurwitz, Ceren Erdem, at Apexart. This Saturday at 4pm, in downtown Manhattan.
  • Northampton, Mass: The Eye is a Door: Landscape Photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn, at the Smith College Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
  • L.A.: Fictions, with Josh Atlas, Srijon Chowdhury, Guan Rong and Alexandra Wiesenfeld, at Klowden Mann. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
  • L.A.: LA Art Book Fair 2014, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Starts this Friday at 11am through Sunday.
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