Lance Loud: A Death in An American Family

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In 1973, An American Family was the most controversial and talked-about television program of its era. Anticipating the current deluge of ‘reality TV’ programming by three decades. The program chronicles seven months in the lives of the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California. The Louds were selected as an emblematic nuclear family pulled apart by the cultural shifts that marked America’s transition into the 1970s. Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond captured 300 hours of film that were edited to 12 one-hour episodes aired weekly on PBS. The series quickly became a national media event viewed by an audience of 10 million people. The ensuing depictions of divorce, West Coast affluence, and open homosexuality provoked a fervent public debate about the nation’s value system, its attitudes towards family and sexuality. An American Family was among the first television series to transform ‘ordinary people’ into media celebrities. During the series’s second episode, Lance Loud, who had left Santa Barbara to pursue a more bohemian life in Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel, became arguably the first openly gay man on American television. On 22 December 2001, aged 50, Loud died of liver failure caused by hepatitis C and HIV co-infection. Having lived his youth onscreen in living rooms across America, several months before his death Loud asked Alan and Susan Raymond to film one final episode in the Loud story up until his death. The resulting documentary, Lance Loud! A Death in An American Family, commemorates the 30th anniversary of the original broadcast and explores Loud’s legacy. On July 4, presented by The Hepatitis C Trust and Tate Modern, celebrates the life of television and underground icon Lance Loud to raise awareness about HIVand hepatitis C co-infection. The screening of An American Family, episode 2 (1973, 60 min) and Lance Loud! A Death in An American Family (2003, 60 min) will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond. Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, Wednesday July 4, Bankside, London, SE1 9JE

Jeff Koons The Painter

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A double exhibition of works by artist Jeff Koons will be on view this Summer in Germany, one that focuses on his oeuvra of painting and one of his sculptures. The exhibitions will be on view at the Schirn, which will present Jeff Koons: The Painter and Liebieghaus, which will present Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, in Frankfurt runs until Sept. 23

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Double

On view startin today at Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea, a solo exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, entitled Double. This exhibition examines the broad spectrum of Gonzalez-Torres’s oeuvre with particular emphasis on the malleable nature of his works, demonstrating how their meaning, as much as the form, can shift as the architectural, social, and curatorial landscapes change. The exhibition will also be on view at the sister museum Leeum, as well as multiple locations throughout the city of Seoul, and will also be on view prior to and following the opening of the Gwangju Biennale on September 7th. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died at the early age of 38 in 1996, is considered one of the most influential artists of his generation. Using everyday objects such as mirrors, clocks, puzzles, candies and paper stacks, Gonzalez-Torres’s oeuvre more profoundly examined the “public” function of art, while presenting strictly private contemplations on love and the fragility of life. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Double, will be open until September 28, 2012 at Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Samsung Life Insurance Building Taepyeongno2-Ga, Jung-Gu, Seoul, Korea

David Benjamin Sherry Book Launch In Los Angeles

In Quantum Light, artist David Benjamin Sherry’s second publication, he continues his exploration of vivid color, ramping up the saturation and expanding his subject matter, in works incorporating landscapes, collage, still life, abstraction, portraiture and sculpture. A conversation between Sherry and Collier Schorr serves as preface to this beautifully produced clothbound volume, which is published to coincide with the artist’s first New York solo show at Salon 94. Sherry will be signing his new book this Thursday, June 21, at Ooga Booga bookstore in Los Angeles. 

Joe Deutch Retrospective

Among other feats of self-imperilment, his performances have included disabling a police car in broad daylight, being intentionally bitten by a poisonous rattlesnake and, most infamously, playing Russian roulette in front of an art class at UCLA, a performance that has been linked to Burden’s departure from his position at the university. Coming out of a long Los Angeles tradition of performance that includes such canonical artists as Chris Burden and Ron Athey, Joe Deutch’s practice seeks to continue a commitment to physicality through an exploration of his body and the constructed landscape beyond the studio as compelling sites for artworks. Opening June 21 at the Marlborough Chelsea gallery in New York as retrospective of Joe Deutch which will be on view until July 27, 545 West 25th Street, New York,

Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs

The visionary author and artist William S. Burroughs has been admired by generations as a revolutionary intellectual with a radical popular image. He established a new form of writing: the cut-up method - whereby text and image fragments are intuitively pieced together to form open associative narrative structures in order to expand the boundaries of language and describe human consciousness. He extended this method into the visual arts and the cut-ups in their various forms are the focus of a new exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien. Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs will be on view until October 21, at the Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1,1070 Wien, Austria

Musique Plastique at Agnès B

Now open at Agnès B's Howard Street gallery an exhibition entitled Musique Plastique, a group exhibit "exploring the ongoing interaction between the visual arts and music." Curated by Jean François Sanz, the show will feature music-themed pieces by the likes of Jean Tobias Bernstrup, Hisham Bharoocha, Etienne Charry, Brian DeGraw, Daniel Johnston, Jonas Mekas, Thurston Moore, David Shrigley, Alan Vega, Ben Vida and Liz Wendelbo. Musique Platique is on view until August 25 at 50 Howard Street, New York, and be sure to head to the Agnès B gallery website to download a compilation by the artists involved. 

Allen Jones Retrospective

The leading British Pop artist Allen Jones caused an international furor in 1969 with his provocative furniture sculptures. In 1979, the first large-scale retrospective was devoted to the artist, forty-one at the time, in Liverpool, London, Baden-Baden, and Bielefeld. His 70th birthday was celebrated in 2007 at the Tate Britain in London with an exhibition of current works as well as several early pieces. In time for his 75th birthday, the Kunsthalle Tübingen is extending an invitation to rediscover the oeuvre of the internationally influential artist in the most comprehensive retrospective to date. Allen Jones: The Retrospective on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday will be on view until September 16, 2012 at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Philosophenweg 76 72076 Tübingen Germany

Lisa Solberg STALKER at THIS Los Angeles

THIS Los Angeles presents Stalker, a solo installation of mixed media by Lisa Solberg opening tonight. Lisa uses reflective insulation panels and cutting techniques to create a world of poetic, bold and thoughtful imagery focused on the sublime. The combining of ink and paint to the finished surfaces compliments the inherent dynamics of the material. The work is intimate and echoes the bold and provocative sentiments of public spaces. Lisa Solberg has presented an aesthetic both primitive, subjective and haunting, her uninhibited display of passion and talent with both the imagery and materials have displayed a unique world and quality of otherness. The panels on view mimic pieces of a large puzzle to complete the Stalker environment and thought, exposing Solberg’s personal expressions, desires and intimacies. Lisa Solberg, born 1983 in Chicago, is an expressionist artist currently living in Los Angeles. Stalker will be on view from June 15 to July 14 at THIS Los Angeles, 5906 North Figueroa Street Los Angeles, California

Wim Delvoye at the Louvre

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The Louvre invites Wim Delvoye, most famous for his tattooed pigs and x-ray sex series, to intervene at various locations within the museum and nearby: in the galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts, under the Pyramid, and in the Tuileries gardens. On view until September 17, 2012. Follow Autre on Instagram for more updates: @autremagazine

Abstract Painter Georges Mathieu Dies at 91

French artist Georges Mathieu died in Paris on June 10 at the age of 91. Georges Mathieu was a complete artist: writer, architect, author of Désormais seul en face de Dieu (1998), graphic designer, painter and inventor of a genuine and independent pictorial language orientated in opposition to geometrical abstraction. He wanted his work to be one of speed, in order not to be overshadowed by doubts. He fought for an art liberated from the classic boundaries that he called “lyrical abstraction." There have been over a hundred exhibitions dedicated to the artist. Georges Mathieu never had any art education. In 1947 he was working for American Express in Paris, France and rented a chambre de bonne near the Palais Luxembourg. There he executed a number of large canvases with a black background on which he painted colored scrolls, whorls and other shapes. He subsequently refined his technique, using a white background on which he painted simple geometrical forms, most often a single line in color.

Cristóbal Jodorowsky Exhibition in Chile

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Currently on view at a gallery in Santiago, Chile a series of recent works by Cristóbal Jodorowsky (Mexico City, 1965), son of cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky, in his distinct style of mixing pop iconography with religious symbolism. The exhibition, entitled  Reflejo de Soñados (Reflection of Dreaming Bodies),  will also be accompanied by the release of a new book of poetry.  On view at the Local Arte Contemporaneo Gallery, Av. Italia 1129, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.