From Antoni Muntadas' famous "limousine project" on view at Jeu de Paume as the part of the major exhibition by the internationally recognized artist, one of the early practitioners of conceptual and media art. Antoni Muntadas Entre / Between on view until January 20, 2013 at Jeu de Paume, 1 place de la Concorde 75008, Paris
Noland Hendrickson's new exhibition, New New Face, will be on view until March 9, 2013 at Ramiken Crucible, 389 Grand Street, New York. photograph by Ramiken Crucible
For their first solo exhibition in the UK, Berlin-based artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present Toxic, 2012 and Salomania, 2009, alongside a program of performance, screenings and talks. Through their installations of film and archival material they upset normative historical narratives with a host of collaborators including Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Werner Hirsch, Yvonne Rainer and Wu Tsang. Toxic Play In Two Acts by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenze will be on view until February 24, 2013 at The South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, London
Hionas Gallery TriBeCa presents the very first east coast exhibition from Los Angeles-based artist duo The Ultravelvet Collection, comprised of eight new photomontage works from their series Sex Invaders. Combining iconography from classic video games, erotic imagery, film photography and graphic design, Sex Invaders is a visual journey for a generation who grew up playing games on Atari and original Nintendo systems, yet whose base desires may have matured somewhat in the ensuing years. Sex Invaders will be on view until December 29 at Hionas Gallery, 89 Franklin Street, New York
Artist Holton Rower at the Fresh Basel exhibition as part of a live performance of one his pour paintings, curated by Kathy Grayson of The Hole gallery in New York, held at the the historic 1920′s waterfront Villa Vecchia estate during Basel Week Miami, sponsored by Playboy. photograph by Kristy Leibowitz
German artist Neo Rauch poses in front of his work Die Abwaegung (The Consideration) during a preview of a double exhibition with works by Rauch and his wife at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum in Chemnitz, eastern Germany. From December 16, 2012 to February 10, 2013, the museum will present simultaneously the show "Gravitation" with works by Rauch's wife Rosa Loy and the show "Abwaegung" (consideration) with works by Neo Rauch. photograph by Hendrik Schmidt
Bring the social media "LIKE" into the real world. Ubiquitous in Miami during the 2012 art fair season, Flood's sign is intended to "illuminate the enslavement of the human race by Facebook." Flood created 406 corrugated plastic LIKE signs for distribution in Miami, but set aside a batch of 80 which are now available to purchase on Exhibition A.
In collaboration with yoox.com, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, whose works usually start at around $80,000, has created his first multiple in aid of the areas affected by the earthquake in the Emilia region. All proceeds from the 399 pieces will go to the FAI (Italian National Trust) fund for the reconstruction of the Finale Emilia town hall damaged by the earthquake on May 20th, 2012. You can pick one up here while they last.
"Having filmed the seaside and the beach so much, I could be taken for a specialist. Here I show a photo of the sea and we can imagine the wind which, at that moment, whips the crest of a wave up into jets of water. I also propose that the movement which continues the image is cinema, another representation of the seaside, we hear the last wavelet that comes and flattens itself on the sand, well, the sand is real sand, it's reality," says the iconic New Wave film director Agnès Varda about her new exhibition at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Cntemporaneo in Seville, Spain. The exhibition, entitled The Twin Shores of Agnès Varda, presented in collaboration with the Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo, shows short films, photographs and installations by the French filmmaker. The Twin Shores of Agnès Varda will be on view until March 31, 2013 at Centro Andaluz de Arte Cntemporaneo.
Love With Stranger x COCO, a new publication by Los Angeles-based artist Margaret Haines, is one in a series of ‘trailers’ for her forthcoming feature-length film Coco (Fall 2012). Previous ‘trailers’ have included a performance at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), a sound installation at the Cirrus Gallery, and a sculptural presentation at Commonwealth and Council Gallery in Los Angeles. It explores different tropes of female identity - mixing personas, identities, some parafictional, some actual. Based on the narrative structure of Don Quixote, the book revolves around three female protagonists—Coco, a character that appears in Haines’ forthcoming film; Los Angeles artist and cult figure, Cameron (1922-1995), famed for her role in Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome; and Haines’s own ruminations. This Thursday, January 20, Ooga Booga will be hosting a launch for the zine at their holiday pop-up shop inside Various Small Fires at 1212-B Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA 90291.
For over forty years, New York-based artist Judith Bernstein has created expressive drawings and paintings that boldly critique militarism and machismo in a manner that is at once humorous and threatening. Her exhibition, entitled Hard, at the New Museum in New York will include a selection of works ranging from the ’60s through the present, including a new site-specific rendition of Bernstein’s Signature Piece (1986/2012), painted in explosive gestural strokes directly onto the Lobby Gallery windows. Hard will be on view until January 20, at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY
Bonniers Konsthall invites Los Angeles based artist Sterling Ruby to present his first solo exhibition in Sweden. Sterling Ruby, whose been named one of the 2000s most interesting artists, works in a mixture of materials and genres, from glazed biomorphic ceramics to drawings in nail varnish. He takes his subject matter from a wide range of sources, including maximum security prisons, urban gangs, modernist architecture, and the mechanisms of warfare. His works can be seen as a form of assault on both materials and social power structures. The universe of Soft Work is by first look playful, soft and humorous but will soon reveal a dimensions of fear or terror. The artist transforms pillows, blankets, and quilts from objects of comfort into ominous sculptural objects that hint at the possibility that safety and security are an illusion. Here the American flag is used as material in gigantic vampire mouths and obese stuffed animals hangs from the roof like macerated cadavers. On view until March 17, 2013 at Bonniers Konsthall, Torsgatan 19, Sweden.
Daniel Arsham at the opening of his exhibition Reach Ruin at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Connecting the lines between art, architecture, dance, and theater, Arsham mines everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form. Arsham is known for subverting existing architectural structures in unconventional, playful ways: façades appear to billow in the wind, figures seem wrapped beneath the wall’s surface. His cross-disciplinary practice, historical inquiry, and satirical wit combine into an ongoing interrogation of the real and the imagined. Reach Ruin will be on view until Mid-March 2013, at Fabric Workshop and Museum. photograph by OHWOW
photograph by David X Prutting
Art and design space Grey Area will host their Christmas show entitled Ornamental at Coates Wyllie featuring artists André Saraiva, Vadis Turner, John Gordon, and more. Ornamental will be on view from December 15 to December 22 at Coates Wyllie, 12 West 29th St, New York, NY
Last chance to see artist Lin Tianmiao’s Badges, an installation of over sixty hanging, embroidered hoops emblazoned with American and Chinese slang words for women—such as Diva, Cougar, Dyke, Ho, Gold Digger, and Beauty Queen—accompanied by a soundtrack of the same terms, will be the centerpiece of artist Tianmiao’s first solo exhibition. The exhibition coincides with Lin’s first major solo exhibition in the U.S., Bound Unbound at the Asia Society Museum in New York, on view until January 27, 2013. Badges will be on view until December 15, 2012 at Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street, New York, NY
M.I.A. and Collaborator Steve Loveridge in Kochi for India's first ever art biennale which started on 12/12/12. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale will be set in spaces across Kochi, Muziris and surrounding islands. There will be shows in existing galleries and halls, and site-specific installations in public spaces, heritage buildings and disused structures. On view for the next three months.
Widely acknowledged as an artist who defined his era, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) created a stunning and protean legacy that encompasses painting, sculpture, works on paper, installation, performance, music, video, photography, collaborative works and critical texts. In the largest exhibition of his work ever organized—and the first comprehensive survey attempted since 1993—the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presentation of Mike Kelley will bring together over 200 works, spanning the artist’s 35-year career. The exhibition will subsequently travel to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, MoMA PS1, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The retrospective will be on view December 15 to April 1, 2013, at the Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marianne Boesky Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and graphite drawings by Barnaby Furnas (b.1973, Philadelphia, PA). This will be the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new series of paintings, loosely titled If Wishes Were Fishes, Furnas again tackles epic historic and religious iconography, this time drawing from both the lore of Melville’s Moby Dick, as well as Jonah’s flight from God that lands him in the belly of the whale. On this Furnas says, “What interested me about whaling in the first place was that they (the whales) gave us light - their fat allowed us to bring God's light into the darkness of the night so we could see our fingers and maybe read after the sun went down." If Wishes Were Fishes will be on view until December 21, 2012 at Marianne Boesky Gallery, 509 West 24th Street New York, NY.
French jewelry, object, accessory designer and mystic Aoi Kotsuhiroi, who releases some sort of narrative to accompany each of her new collections, has released the dark and nostalgic, gothic poem called Nothing But Words To Learn To Lie for her current collection of one off objects which have been created entirely by hand, including the sewing. Objects include jackets and corsets made from Bison leather, heels painted with 15 layers of black and red paint and then lacquered with genuine cinnabar Urushi lacquer (tree sap), a human skull wrapped in bison leather, a chestnut wood chair upholstered with bison leather and hand-sewn with waxed linen thread, and a dildo made of Urushi lacquered fagus sylvatica wood that comes in a bison leather pouch. Visit Aoi Kotsuhiroi's website to read the poem and inquire about purchasing these remarkable objects.