Category: Painting

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. 04.23.14.

Big Trouble in Lil Haiti by Michael Vasquez (Courtesy of the artist.)
Big Trouble in Lil Haiti, 2013, by Michael Vasquez. The artist will have work on view at New Image Art in Los Angeles this weekend, part of the group show This Crazy Life, also featuring Patrick Martinez and Gregory Bojorquez. Opens Saturday 7pm, in West Hollywood. (Image courtesy of the artist.)

  • L.A.: James Bridle, Military Visuality and the Work of Art Symposium, a talk at Occidental College. Thursday at 12:45pm at Choi Auditorium, in Northeast L.A.
  • L.A.: Francesco Vezzoli, Cinema Vezzoli, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Opens Sunday, at Grand Avenue.
  • L.A.: Timothy Nolan, The Soft and Sweet Eclipse, at CB1 Gallery. Opens Sunday at 5pm, in downtown L.A.
  • L.A.: Sheree Rose, 100 Reasons, at Coagula Curatorial. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Chinatown.
  • S.F.: Wrong’s What I Do Best, at the San Francisco Art Institute. Opens Thursday, in the Walter and McBean Galleries.
  • NYC: 13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World’s Fair, at the Queens Museum. Opens Sunday.
  • NYC: Ultra Violet: The Studio Recreated, at Dillon Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Carrie Mae Weems, LIVE: Past Tense/Future Perfect, at the Guggenheim Museum of Art. Three days of art, music and performance in connection with Weems’s retrospective at the museum. Starts Friday, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Dinh Q. Lê, Warf Woof, Zero & One, at PPOW Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Eva and Franco Mattes, By Everyone, For No One, Everyday, and John Powers, +time, at Postmasters Gallery. Opens Saturday at 5:30pm, in Tribeca.
  • NYC: Adriana Varejao, Polvo, at Lehmann Maupin. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Bob Colacello, Holy Terror: Photographs from Inside Warhol’s World, at Steven Kasher Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Sarah Charlesworth, Objects of Desire: 1983-1988, at Maccarone. Opens Friday at 6pm, in the West Village.
  • NYC: Monika Zarzeczna, sculpture and collage, at Lesley Heller Workspace. Opens Sunday at 6pm, on the Lower East Side. There will be an artist talk on Sunday, May 18 at 4:30pm.
  • NYC: Guillermo Kuitca, This Way, at Sperone Westwater. Opens Thursday, on the Lower East Side.
  • NYC: The ‘80s: Past + Present, at Bleecker Street Art Club. Opens Thursday, in the West Village.
  • NYC: It Ain’t What You Make But What Makes You Do It, a tribute to Dennis Oppenheim, at Valentine. Opens Friday, in Ridgewood.
  • NYC: Performa Events: Who Can Write About a Performance Art, with Claire Bishop, RoseLee Goldbgerg, Adrian Heathfield, Jens Hoffmann, John Rockwell, Hrag Vartanian and David Velasco, at Judson Memorial Church. Tomorrow at 6:30pm, in the Village. RSVP required.
  • NYC: Julia Bland & Daniel Petraitis, Hard As You Can, Right at the Middle, at Asya Geisberg Gallery. Through May 10, in Chelsea.
  • London: Hernan Bas, Memphis Living, and Christian Holstad, Corrections, at Victoria Miro. Opens Saturday.
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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. 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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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. 02.05.14.

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. 11.07.13.

Ditz, from Woman Words, by Betty Tompkins, for Dinter Fine Art. (Courtesy of the Artist.)
Ditz, from the series Woman Words, by Betty Tompkins. From an online exhibit at Dinter Fine Art, on view through December. (Image courtesy of the artists and Dinter Fine Art.)

  • NYC: Queens International 2013, at the newly-remodeled Queens Museum of Art. Opens Saturday, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
  • NYC: Bruce Nauman, Some Illusions: Videos and Drawings, at Sperone Westwater. Opens Thursday, on the Lower East Side.
  • NYC: Albert Hoffman, at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Through December 7, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: The Ceiling Should Be Green, at P!. Opens Friday in SoHo.
  • NYC: VIBE: A Pop-Up Show, with Carla Gannis, Joy Garnett, Paul Loughney and Michael Rees, at Suite 303. Opens this Friday at 6pm, for 24 hours, in Chelsea.
  • NYC: Shak-Tea Party, co-hosted by Go! Push Pops and A Feminist Tea Party. This Sunday at 3pm, in Bushwick.
  • NYC: A book party for Tod Seelie’s Bright Nights, at the Silent Barn. Today at 7pm, in Bushwick.
  • L.A.: Ruben Ochoa, Dislocated Masses, at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Opens Saturday, in Culver City.
  • L.A.: Lari Pittman, From A Late Western Impaerium, at Regen Projects. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Hollywood.
  • L.A.: Eric White, All of This Has Not Occurred, at Martha Otero Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in West Hollywood.
  • L.A.: neverhitsend and C.R.A.S.H. record release, at 356 Mission. Opens Saturday, at 7pm, in Boyle Heights.
  • L.A.: Inglewood Open Studios. This Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5pm, in locations around Inglewood.
  • Online: The Wrong Biennale of New Media Art, displaying in various locations and online (originating in São Paulo). Through December 31st.
  • Plus: Don’t miss this moving video piece about Tony Feher on ArtInfo (which includes footage of a piece in which he paints an empty lot pink — looks pretty awesome). His show is currently up at the Bronx Museum.
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Calendar. 06.12.13.

Who's On Third, by Llyn Foulkes
Who’s on Third?, by Llyn Foulkes, 1971–73. Part of the artist’s retrospective, Llyn Foulkes, at the New Museum. Opens today, on the Lower East Side. This is a bangin’ show, people. Go see it. And listen to my NPR profile of Foulkes while you’re at it. Or, better yet, if you want to see the artist in person, he is giving a talk on Thursday at 7:30pm.  (Courtesy John Jones Collection and the New Museum.)

  • L.A.: Richard Artschwager! at the Hammer Museum. Opens Saturday, in Westwood.
  • NYC: Bienal 2013: This is Where We Jump, at El Museo del Barrio. Opens today, in East Harlem.
  • NYC: Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, at the Museum of Modern Art. Opens Saturday.
  • NYC: Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work, at the Society of Illustrators. Through August 17, on the Upper East Side.
  • NYC: Pancho Westendarp, Victoria Burge and Tom Kotik, Time Times Three, at Robert Henry Ceontemporary. Opens Thursday, in Bushwick.
  • NYC: Lorna Mills, The Axis of Something, at Transfer Gallery. Opens Friday at 7pm, in Bushwick.
  • Pittsburgh: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, S/HE IS HER/E, at the Warhol Museum. Opens Saturday.
  • Northampton, Mass.: Summer of Love: Psychedelic Posters from SCMA, at the Smith College Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
  • Berlin: Clemens Behr, Splitter, at Gestalten. Opens Thursday at 6pm.
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