Private Opening of Rob Pruitt's 50th Birthday Bash at the Brant Center in Connecticut

Rob Pruitt and friends celebrated the opening of 'Rob Pruitt's 50th Birthday Bash' - an exhibition that is one part art exhibition and one part flea market on view at the Brant Foundation in Connecticut. Pruitt is an American post-pop artist who explores American youth and consumer culture. Working in painting, installation, and sculpture, he does not have a single style or medium. His pieces are humorous but seductive; critics debate whether he celebrates or critiques commercial culture. While he uses pop culture imagery, his work is intensely personal and biographical. The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is located 941 North Street, Greenwich Connecticut. photographs by Clint Spaulding/Patrick McMullan

After & Again with Betsabee Romero: Public Art Installation Launch @ The Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge

After & Again, a new contemporary art platform celebrating the craftsmanship of textiles, presented their inaugural artist collaboration with Betsabeé Romero, one of Mexico’s leading contemporary artists for three days only at the Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge. Known around the world for creating inventive installations influenced by literature and diverse cultures, Romero’s "Skull of a Thousand Faces" edition and installation - curated by Sylvia Chivaratanond (read our interview here) –for After & Again is inspired by pre-Columbian iconography, colonial imagery, and popular culture. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Inge Morath 'Masquerades' & Enoc Perez 'Cut Shapes' @ Danziger Gallery In New York

Danziger Gallery presents a two-person show of photographs by Inge Morath and photo collages by Enoc Perez. Created half a century apart, both works share a sense of humor, an interest in concealment, and a delight in cutting and making shapes out of paper. Autre's New York correspondent Adam Lehrer caught up with Perez at the opening of “Cut Shapes” to talk about the show, his excitement about technology and why he loves portraying the auras of women. Click here to read the enlightening interview. photographs by Adam Lehrer

R.I.P. Chris Burden, Extreme Performance Artist (1946-2015)

Chris Burden, an artist known for his extreme performance art in his youth - with performances that included shooting himself in the arm with a rifle and crucifying himself on a VW Bug - has died at the age of 69 in Los Angeles. Later in his life, Burden became more well known for his sculptural works, like the famous streetlamp installation outside of LACMA and Porsche with Meteorite, which is on view now at Gagosian Gallery in Paris. Burden has made an indelible mark on the history of art and he will be an enduring symbol and spirit of how far bravery, imagination and a little pain can take the artist. 

Read Our Interview With Artist Robert Levine Before His Solo Show At MAMA Gallery In L.A. →

What do you get when you combine Groucho Marx, vintage Superman comics and Russian geometric abstract artist Kazimir Malevich? - You get After Malevich: a new series of paintings by artist Robert Levine. Click here to read our interview with Levine before his solo show, which opens tonight at MAMA Gallery in Los Angeles. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

The 2015 Venice Biennale Central Exhibition 'All the World’s Futures' At The Giardini

Jeremy Deller's jukebox plays nothing but 7-inch records, which emit factory machine noise. 

Curated by Nigerian curator and the director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich Okwui Enwezor, 'All the World's Futures' is the central exhibition held at the Giardini during the 2015 Venice Biennale, which opens to the public tomorrow. Over 140 artists have been asked to be a part of this exhibition - from Oscar Murrilo to Glenn Ligon. The exhibition is a brutal statement exploring violence and pain, global catastrophe and mass anxieties, and the psychic and physical destruction caused by global capitalism. All the World's Future's will be on view from May 9 to November 22, 2015 at the 2015 Venice Biennale. 

Dan Colen 'Viscera' Opening at Venus Over Los Angeles

Venus Over Los Angeles presents Viscera, an exhibition of three new bodies of work by Dan Colen in the gallery's incredible new location in Downtown L.A.'s arts district. Each element in Viscera elicits questions about the behavior of physical forms as they come into contact with metaphysical experience. An exhibition highlight, "Canopics" is a series of sculptures cast from the negative space formed by roadside guardrails mangled in automobile accidents. The series title refers to basins used in ancient Egyptian burial ceremonies to contain the viscera, or vital organs, of the dead. As with Colen’s "Miracle" series, "Rainbow Paintings" are based on stills from Fantasia (1940), which the artist sees as Disney’s most abstract film, whose vignettes “address the many guises of creation itself.” There is also a unique sound element Psychics (Interstellar Medium?, which is comprised of a series of recorded psychic readings, documented over a ten-month period beginning in the summer of 2014. Viscera will be on view until June 27th, 2015 at Venus Over Los Angeles, 601 South Anderson Street, Los Angeles, CA. 

An Exclusive Sneak-Peek At the New Fondazione Prada in Milan

For the last two decades, the Fondazione Prada has held numerous ground-breaking exhibitions, but without a permanent place to call home. An avid collector and matriarch of the Prada and Miu Miu brands, Miuccia Prada has been exhibiting artists like Dan Flavin and Anish Kapoor in a ramshackle assortment of shifting industrial buildings in Milan, Venice and elsewhere in the world. Yet, tomorrow will see the opening of a permanent campus in Milan – designed Rem Koolhaas, the new home of the Fondazione Prada will occupy more than 200,000 square-feet of a century-old distillery in Milan, which has been completely transformed by the Dutch architect and his firm OMA. Indeed, there is a lot to explore at the new foundation – including inaugural exhibitions, like Serial Classic, which plays with classic Roman sculpture, you can also view a new Roman Polanski film in the newly added theater, or you can visit the Haunted House – a permanent installation of late the Louise Bourgeois’ sculptural work. After exploring the expansive space, you can stop and have a cocktail at Bar Luce, which has been designed by the director Wes Anderson, and is inspired by the Milanese cafés of the 1970s. Autre was lucky enough to gather a sneak-peek of the space before it’s official opening – browse through photos to see the exhibitions, the architecture and the perfectly kitschy café. photographs by Juanco Viso for Autre Magazine.  

Pamela Rosenkranz 'Our Product' @ The Swiss Pavilion

Curated by Susanne Pfeffer, Pamela Rosenkranz’s exhibition for the 2015 Venice Biennale transmutes the Pavilion of Switzerland into a body of a local skin color through fluid, sound and movement. A pigment that originally emerged as the specific product of migration, sun-exposure, nutrition, and any number of other contingent factors is resynthesized as a stock formula, composed of unknown ingredients. You can see Pamela Rosenkranz 'Our Product' until November 22, 2015 at the Swiss Pavilion

Zachary Armstrong 'Goodnight Bojangles' @ Night Gallery

In Goodnight Moon, a childlike bunny says good night to the contents of her bedroom one by one: "Goodnight, room. Goodnight, moon." The beloved children's book illustrates a familiar and simple ritual through playful means. Ritual and childhood are Ohio based artist Zachary Armstrong's main points of origin, mined throughout his diverse practice, from wallpaper and neon signs, to lamps and paintings. Most often it is his own early years or those of his son that are referenced. Armstrong does this partly to conjure a more naïve moment in one's life, emphasizing the difference in knowingness between a former and current self and creating a nostalgic distance in his mind as well as in the viewer. Zachary Armstrong 'Goodnight Bojangles' will be on view until May 16, 2015 at Night Gallery. photographs by Lee Thompson

10 Exhibitions You Need to See at the 56th Venice Biennale

What is the Venice Biennale and why is everyone talking about it? – The Venice Biennale is largely considered one of the most important art exhibitions in the world. Located in Venice, Italy, the exhibition is sort of like the art world's Olympics - each country chooses a single artist as a representative and that artist is given a "pavilion" to show their work. This year, there are over 136 artists and 53 countries showing. There are also many satellite and pop up exhibitions.  Here are Autre's picks for the top exhibitions. 1. U.K. artist Sarah Lucas presents 'I Scream Daddio' for the British Pavilion 2. The late Mario Merz will be holding an exhibition, entitled 'Unreal City,' at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia 3. The late, great Cy Twombly will have an exhibition entitled 'Paradise' at Ca'Pesaro 4. New York based artist Aurel Schmidt will be showing her series 'New Gods' at Cannaregio 5. Part of the unique Vanhaerents Collection will be on display for an exhibition entitled Heartbreak Hotel at the Zuecca Projects Space 6. Jonas Mekas: Internet Saga at the Palazzo Foscari Contarini 7. Artist Rob Pruitt's unique Flea Market in Venice will be on display at A Plus A gallery 8. Pamela Rosenkranz has been nominated by her country to exhibit at the Swiss Pavilion with an exhibition that averages European skin color 9. At the age of 78, Joan Jonas represents the United States at the 56th Venice Biennale with They Come To Us Without A Word 10. Frontiers Reimagined, a major group exhibition with 44 artists will be on view at Museo di Palazzo Grimani

Julius Shulman 'Modernism Rediscovered' @ Taschen in Milan

Julius Shulman’s photography was instrumental in crafting the image of the midcentury Southern California lifestyle across the United States and around the world. Now a selection of Shulman's limited, signed prints are on display in the gallery of the newly opened Taschen Milan. The amazing floors have been designed by artist Jonas Wood. Julius Shulman Modernism Rediscovered will be on view until April 30th, 2016 at Taschen, Via Meravigli 17 20123, Milan, Italy

Grear Patterson 'Seek and Destroy' @ Depart Foundation

The Depart Foundation and American Academy in Rome to present Grear Patterson: Seek and Destroy, the artist’s first Los Angeles solo exhibition and the Los Angeles sequel to Patterson’s exhibition Forest Theater presented at the American Academy in Rome in 2014. A precocious former member of The Still House Group, New York-based American artist and photographer Grear Patterson, working in a variety of media, creates expressive works suffused with nostalgia for lost innocence and childhood rituals. Summoning many of his most significant formative experiences, he plumbs the pleasures and traumas of adolescence, evoking both personal and collective rites! ! ! of passage. His work, alternating between disclosure and reticence, explores not only the immediacy of reckless experience, violent impulses and erotic yearning, but also the halting emotional and linguistic shorthand used to express those furtive memories and desires. Grear Patterson: Seek and Destroy will be on view until May 30th at Depart Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles

Tour: Pierpaolo Barzan and Valeria Sorci's Private Collection

Italian transplants Pierpaolo Barzan and Valeria Sorci occupy the storied Baxter-Hodiak house, which was built by the oft-misunderstood architect John Lautner for the actress Anne Baxter - the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. The house exists in the romantic hills behind Sunset Boulevard on a quiet cul de sac between paradise and art utopia. Patrons of the art world as a whole and founders of the Depart Foundation, a non-profit artists institution that supports emerging artists,  Barzan and Sorci opened their home for one night only, for a private tour of their personal collection. Juxtaposed against the mixed modern Tudor-style home with its bricks and sinuous indoor-outdoor couch, the collection is near perfectly curated and provides an intimate arena to enjoy art by everyone from Douglas Gordon to Pryce Lee with his bullet riddled mirror tucked coyly in a guest bathroom. text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Mark Flood's Teaser Video for 'Astro Turf Yelp Review Says Yes'

As usual, Mark Flood has put out another bizarre teaser video for his show, entitled 'Astro Turf Yelp Review,' which opens May 1st at Peres Projects in Berlin. This is the gallery’s sixth solo show with the Houston-based, American artist. In addition to new works from the text and logo series, this exhibition is centered around a new series Aged Paintings, which are exhibited in Berlin for the first time.

Eric Baudart ‘Again, Again and Again’ at Edouard Malingue

Delicately transposed, it's the displaced materiality in Eric Baudart’s works that spurs their contemporary resonance. Millimeter paper, mattress frames, doormats – everyday, commonplace elements are flushed of everyday context and repurposed to create oeuvres that titter on the edge of artifice. ‘again, again and again’ at Edouard Malingue Gallery marks Baudart’s first solo show in Hong Kong and presents a new series of works as well as two installations that introduce how his practice evolves from Duchamp’s readymade, whilst simultaneously devolving from it. The works or situations proposed are not mere found objects but rather reconfigured and repurposed, composed and re-choreographed materials that have been carefully assembled or moulded to mount a delicate ballet of shapes, color and form. ‘Again, Again and Again’ a will be on view at until May 30th, 2015 at Edouard Malingue Gallery, 33 Des Voeux Road Central, Central, Hong Kong

Chris Burden Exhibiting @ Gagosian in Paris

Chris Burden, Porsche with Meteorite, 2013, restored 1974, Courtesy of Artist and Gagosian

“Limits is a relative term. Like beauty, it is often in the eye of the beholder." Chris Burden Gagosian Paris presents works by Chris Burden, his first exhibition in Paris in more than twenty years. Since the 1970s, Burden has channeled the daring spirit of his early life-threatening performances into sculptures that embody technical feats on an imposing scale. Toys (figurines, train sets, Erector parts) are used as the building blocks for expansive scale models, cities, and battlefields, while actual vehicles (ships, trucks, and cars) are suspended or set in motion in surreal and improbable ways. The exhibition will be on view until July 24th at Gagosian Paris, 26 Avenue de l'Europe, Le Bourget

One More Week To See Willem de Rooij's Exhibition @ Petzel

Dutch artist Willem de Rooij has been producing hand woven, abstract tapestries since 2009. For Rye Wonk, an exhibition that will be on view for only one more week at Petzel Gallery in New York, he will present a series of new weavings, where the interplay of warp and weft, the weave, the tension, the materiality and thickness of the threads, their colors and textures, are all of crucial importance. The exhibition also features some of Rooij's unique flower sculptures. Rye Wonk will be on view until May 2, 2015 at Petzel Gallery, 456 W 18th Street, New York.