Victor Moscoso 'Psychedelic Drawings' @ Andrew Edlin

Andrew Edlin Gallery presents a retrospective of drawings by Victor Moscoso, one of the pre-eminent graphic artists of the 20th century, and widely renowned for his 1960s psychedelic posters and comics. The gallery will publish a 96-page catalog to accompany the exhibition. Victor Moscoso 'Psychedelic Drawings' will be on view until April 25, 2015 at Andrew Edlin Gallery, 134 Tenth Avenue New York, NY

Barbara Kruger 'Early Works' Show Extended @ Skarstedt

Skarstedt gallery in London has extended its exhibition of seminal early works by American artist Barbara Kruger. The exhibition features Kruger’s large-scale black and white photographs, overlaid with provocative captions in bold Futura type. This group of works, selected from the 1980s, examines the cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality through their juxtaposition of text and imagery. Barbara Kruger 'Early Works' will be on view until April 25, 2015 at Skarstedt Gallery, 23 Old Bond Street, London. 

Richard Prince 'New Portraits' @ Blum and Poe in Tokyo

Blum & Poe presents Richard Prince: New Portraits, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Japan in almost twenty years. Prince has pioneered appropriation since the mid-1970s, mining images from mass media, advertising, and entertainment to subvert and redefine concepts of authorship and ownership. The new portraits update this strategy and continue Prince’s exploration of photography through the platform of Instagram. Richard Prince: New Portraits will be on view until May 30, at Blum and Poe, 1-14-34 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku Tokyo. 

Joyce Pensato 'Castaway' @ Petzel Gallery in New York

Petzel Gallery presents Castaway, a solo exhibition by New York based artist Joyce Pensato. This is her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. For this exhibition, Pensato will present a new series of paintings and drawings, as well as premiere digital c-prints of her studio taken by the artist and predominantly comprised of collages on her studio walls. Castaway will be on view until March 28 at Petzel Gallery. 

Petra Collins Group Show On View @ SFAQ in San Francisco

Petra Collins 'Pill Pots' (Collaboration with Group Partner) 

The SFAQ [Project] Space presents Comforter, a group exhibition curated by Petra Collins featuring work by Carlotta Kohl, T.V. Wade, Claire Milbrath, Nguan, and Petra Collins. Comforter explores the binaries of home/transience and sanctuary/chaos, and how we experience these dualities in contemporary life. Comforter will be on view until April 11, 2015 at the SFAQ [Project] Space in San Francisco. 

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.