Paul Kasmin Gallery's Booth at TEFAF Maastricht, Netherlands

For this year's TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) Maastricht, Paul Kasmin Gallery has partnered with longtime gallery artist Bonetti for a site-specific installation made of reclaimed wood from Switzerland that continues his exploration of the dichotomy between contemporary art and design, nature and craft. The gallery is showcasing beautiful works by 20th century modernist masters, such as Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol,  Sigmar Polke, Soutine and more. TEFAF will run from March 13 to the 22nd in Maastricht, Netherlands. photograph by Pieter de Vries, Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

Lola Rose Thompson 'Spells For Improving Your Sex Life' @ Last

Los Angeles based artist Lola Rose Thompson refracts the beguiling and sordid lights of Hollywood in her solo show at LAST Projects, comprising new paintings, drawings, sculpture and neon art. The opening of the exhibition also featured a psychedelic black light performance by Jena Malone. Through profuse and feverish figurations she limns memory, sex, new age aphorisms and and the entertainment industrial complex, offering up highly specific, short narratives in her titles, leaving one to wonder if she's actually playing the long con. Lola Rose Thompson 'Spells For Improving Your Sex Life' will be on view until March 28, 2015. photographs by Ethan DeLorenzo 

Paul McCarthy Designs Limited Edition Skatedecks

Paul McCarthy borrows from his series PROPO to design a series of skatedecks. Through this collection, The Skateroom and Paul McCarthy aim to entirely finance the building of Skateistan’s first skate school on the African continent, in central Johannesburg. The innovative facility will use “the hook” of skateboarding to connect vulnerable youth to educational and leadership opportunities. The vision is for Skateistan, South Africa’s skate school to serve as a regional training hub for skateboard-based, youth-development projects. Each deck is hand-numbered, signed and limited to 250 units. Click here to get pick up your own deck and support this amazing project. photograph by Damon McCarthy

A Visit to Enoc Perez's Studio In New York

Last week, we had the rare and delightful opportunity to visit the studio of Enoc Perez in mid-town Manhattan. The Puerto Rican-born, New York-based artist was raised under the unique tutelage of an art critic and was exposed to culture and the arts at an early age, which explains not only his practice, but also his intense love for art and it’s romantic history. Indeed, Perez has an almost poetic view of art and his own art – there is a pervading idea that perhaps what we see on the outside is really what’s most important. This explains his works depicting iconic architectural structures, which are created using a unique printmaking process. It also explains his sculptural pieces, which are created using swizzle sticks from tropical resorts as inspiration. It also explains why, in the late 1980s, when he first started practicing, his peers dismissed his art as too sexy, too cool, and too seductive. You can almost hear a Walter Wanderly soundtrack as you look at some of his work. Today, Perez’s work can be found in the permanent collections of major institutions – from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Whitney. In May, Perez will be showing some of his newer photographic pieces alongside the work of Saul Steinberg at Danziger Gallery. When we visited his studio, there were a number of paintings in the works that recalled Picasso’s cubist muses, but with a unique postmodern twist. Instead of finding his muses on the streets of Paris, Perez’s muses are found in the tiny square windows of Instagram – just imagine Dora Maar with a Slasher skateboard magazine t-shirt on. As he showed me around, we talked about architecture, artistic process, Bob Dylan’s song lyrics, enlightenment, the zeitgeist and, of course, swizzle sticks. Photographs and text by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Nick Payne 'The Mind's Arm' @ 247365 Manhattan

"Your zipper’s open and I can see your keyhole. There’s light pouring all over, and it's wetting your overalls. When looking down at your reflection in the puddle, you see a strange man standing behind you. He rinses off his fingertips in your hot tea and gives you a wink. You try to keep calm even though he’s ruffling your feathers. Some people can’t help acting saucy when they get caught with their hand in the neighbor's cookie jar. The best thing to do is probably go get some ice cream. Nobody ever suspects a guy who's eating an ice-cream cone." Nick Payne 'The Mind's Arm' will be on view until April at 247365 Manhattan until April 12, 2015. 

[Last Chance] Frank Magnotta 'Co-Patriot' @ Junior Projects

This weekend is the last chance to check out Frank Magnotta’s incredible exhibition at Junior Projects in New York. Magnotta’s intricately rendered graphite portraits begin with layered and morphed composites of modern logos culled from the mid 1960s and 70s, the artist’s formative years. These initial skeletons, assembled digitally, create the framework for his masterfully drawn, contorted busts. Built into each unique portrait are the visible effects—detrimental, elevating, or otherwise—of the institutional power(s) the logos represent on the individual psyche.  Frank Magnotta 'Co-Patriot' is open until March 8, 2015 at Junior Projects, 139 Norfolk St., New York.

Richard Prince 'Fashion' @ Nahmad Contemporary in New York

Nahmad Contemporary presents Richard Prince: Fashion. The exhibition marks the artist’s second solo presentation at the gallery, and brings together all nine photographs that comprise the entirety of this iconic photographic series dating from 1982-84 for the first time. Richard Prince: Fashion will be on view until April 18th, 2015. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Jorge Palacios 'Sketch in the Air' Outside the Trump SOHO

Spanish artist and sculptor Jorge Palacios presents Sketch in the Air, a public sculpture installation in front of the Trump Soho. There will also be new sculptural pieces in a solo exhibition, titled Convergences, at the Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts + Partners space on Chambers Street. Both exhibitions will be on view from March 3 to May 1, 2015. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

John Baldessari 'Pictures & Scripts' @ Marian Goodman in London

Pictures & Scripts is a series of 20 new paintings that juxtapose still images appropriated from black and white films with excerpts from fictive narrative film scripts. Removed from their original contexts, these appropriated film stills capture moments of paused action, within which selected forms have been discretely over-painted in monochrome fields. Pictures & Scripts will be on view until April 25, 2015 at Marian Goodman Gallery in London. 

Highlights From the 2015 SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York

Highlights from the 2015 SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York, a new curator-driven art fair during the Armory Arts Week. This year's theme is TRANSACTION – exploring visions of and commentaries on exchange in all its forms. Bodies in their exchange of gesture. Education in its exchange of ideas. Commodity in its exchange of objects. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

[PHOTOS] Björk Mid-Career Retrospective @ MOMA in New York

The Museum of Modern Art presents a retrospective of the multifaceted work of composer, musician, and singer Björk. The exhibition draws from more than 20 years of the artist’s daring and innovative projects and her eight full-length albums to chronicle her career through sound, film, visuals, instruments, objects, and costumes. Autre was granted preview access to the show before the opening, which is March 8th and it runs until June 7th, 2015 at MOMA. 

James Georgopoulos 'There Is No End' @ MAMA in Los Angeles

MAMA Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by American artist James Georgopoulos. The exhibition explores familiar themes and tropes of sexuality, consumerism, and money worship – thoughtfully disguised in popular culture as the American dream. Following in the same lineage of artists such as John Chamberlain or even Marcel Duchamp, by using objects – old car parts, disused slot machines and other jettisoned materials – Georgopoulos investigates the self-cannibalizing culture of consumerism. There Is No End will be on view February 28 through April 4, 2015. The opening reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, February 28, 2015 from 6:00PM - 9:00PM

SeMen SPeRmS and Nick Stewart 'American Remains' @ The Salon

The Salon at Automatic Sweat presents American Remains, an exhibition of sculptures and installations by SeMeN SPeRmS and Nick Stewart. The exhibition presents a collection of artifacts from a proposed mythology that straddles the indistinct line between American history and rural legend. Inspired by the decrepit highway-side nowhere towns of the southwest, the works offer warped satellite dishes and abandoned single-wide trailers as the weathered remnants of westward expansion. These ubiquitous emblems of a proud historical narrative about a prosperous America are presented alongside idiosyncratic icons of contemporary desert folklore, characterized by supernatural suspicion, eerie phenomena and UFO sightings. The exhibition on view now at The Salon. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Read Our Interview with Suicide's Alan Vega

We were fortunate enough to speak with Alan Vega on the eve of the opening of this exhibition – entitled Welcome to Wyoming. In the following interview, Vega talks about Suicide, his current show at Invisible-Exports and how age brings wisdom and the general notion of not giving a fuck anymore what people think. Read the interview here. 

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Art of Elysium/Sotheby's "Pieces of Heaven" @ MAMA Gallery

The Art of Elysium and Samsung Galaxy along with Sotheby’s presented the 8th Annual Charitable Art Auction ” Pieces of Heaven” at MAMA Gallery in Los Angeles.