After her solo show opening this weekend at MAMA gallery in Los Angeles, artist Ariana Papademetropoulos might make a film about killer mushrooms that murder young punk kids. This should give you an idea of her creativity – it's a boundless creativity that bursts with schizophrenic, hallucinatory imaginativeness. Her paintings literally split at the imaginary seams, tearing into new images – half hidden sadomasochistic scenes are obscured by foggy veils, and midcentury living rooms peel into wood paneled dens where shadows portend dark and dangerous things. Click here to read the full interview.
Go See Christopher Richmond's "Double Fantasy" @ Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles
Moskowitz Bayse presents Double Fantasy, the first major solo exhibition in the United States of works by Los Angeles-based artist Christopher Richmond. Double Fantasy features two new ambitious 16mm film and video works by the artist, and marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Baffling and beautiful, Christopher Richmond makes films, videos, and photographs that challenge traditional story-telling conventions. Fixed meaning is subsumed in an animating tide of sound and light. By disrupting chronology, plot, and standard character development, Richmond invites the viewer to actively participate in the creation of meaning—to abandon the role of passive onlooker and become an active collaborator. Thematically, Richmond’s work explores the human condition, and his unconventional approach to narrative affords a range of alternate impressions. Christopher Richmond's "Double Fantasy" will be on view until April 23, 2016 at Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles.
Enshrining The Souvenirs: Chibi Cherry's Performance At The Spring/Break Art Fair
For her participation in the Spring Break Art Fair, March 1st Chibi Cherry held a ritual of enshrining the "performance souvenirs" she had for sale in the show. Her performers included: Claire Christerson - Face Paint Jo Rosenthal - Chime Xylophone Kiki Kudo - Flute Ross Menuez - Synth Sequencer Olimpia Dior - Lead Vocal Rowan Oliver - Supporting Vocal Footage by Jack Shannon
Lucien Smith At His Opening of "Allergic to Morning" At Moran Bondaroff
photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Read A FOMO Sufferer's Highlights During Armory Week In New York →
A review of this weekend's art fair extravaganza in New York, with love from Los Angeles, with major FOMO. Click here to read.
Searching for Light and Color: Read Our Interview With Artist Tamuna Sirbiladze On the Event of Her Untimely Passing →
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Highlights From The Armory Show 2016 At Pier 92 and 94 in New York
Autre got a sneak peek of the The Armory Show in New York during the VIP opening in New York. The Armory Show will be on view from March 3 to March 6, 2016 at Piers 92 and 94 in New York. photographs by Sara Clarken
Highlights from the Spring/Break Art Fair 2016 in New York
photographs by Adriana Pauly
"Glory Hole" An Installation Curated by Kelsey Bennett and Rémy Bennett @ Spring Break Art Fair in New York
photographs by Sara Clarken
Last Chance To Check Out Isa Genzken's Largest Retrospective To Date @ Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
Largest retrospective ever in the Netherlands of one of the most influential artists of the last forty years. The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of Isa Genzken’s work. Isa Genzken (1948) is an artist prepared to risk everything in her pursuit of artistic renewal. Her oeuvre is rooted in the medium of sculpture, and is distinguished by a constantly evolving visual language and the unconstrained use of media. Genzken’s work encompasses sculpture, installation, film, video, painting, work on paper, collage, and photography. In the 1970s, she produced computer-designed sculpture in relation to American Minimalism and Conceptual Art. These sculptures were followed by one radical step after another. Isa Genzken "Mach Dich Hübsch" will be on view until March 6, 2016 at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
Ed Ruscha Screening of "Premium" Starring Larry Bell Screening This Week @ Hauser Wirth New York
One of only two films made by Ed Ruscha over his dynamic artistic career, Premium is a filmic translation of 1969's Crackers, one in an influential series of conceptual photography books created by Ruscha in the 1960s and 70s. Both the book and the film are based on the short story "How to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment from Crackers" written by Mason Williams, a musician and comedic writer for the Smothers Brothers, and a childhood friend of Ruscha's. Featuring perhaps one of the greatest appearances by salad in art history, Premium stars fellow L.A. art icon Larry Bell on a hilarious and absurd late-night adventure. Ruscha's film is an exploration of storytelling and the conventional narrative codes of Hollywood, featuring his signature deadpan humor and keen translation of the contemporary American condition. See Premium this week, March 3rd, 6pm, at Hauser Wirth New York on the occasion of the exhibition 'Larry Bell: From the ‘60s’ RSVP to bell@hauserwirth.com or call +1 212 794 4970
A Sneak Peek of Sara Clarken's Pineapple Shop Installation at the Spring Break Art Fair
Spring/Break Art Show officially opens on March 1 and runs until March 7 at Skylight at Moynihan Station, 421 Eighth Avenue, New York. photographs by Sara Clarken
Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis Collaborative Exhibition @ Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Mick Rock: Remembering Bowie and Alejandro Iñárritu: The Revenant Double Exhibition @ Taschen Gallery in Los Angeles
Mick Rock: Remembering Bowie features photographs of the late and legendary David Bowie by his once official photograph Mick Rock. In the other room of Taschen gallery in Los Angeles, behind-the-scenes of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. A selection of photographs from Kimberley French are on display alongside props and relics from the film, charting the making of this critically-acclaimed epic through arresting visuals of the film’s extreme conditions and serene settings. The exhibit will be an exclusive first look at material for an upcoming Tascene Collector’s Edition book, The Revenant, signed and limited, with a portfolio of prints. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a charity supporting Native Americans. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
The Bathhouse Show, A Music and Group Art Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan
The Bathhouse Show is a music and group exhibition at an abandoned bath house in Tokyo. The next day, the bath house was torn down. 4 bands and 40 artists from Japan and around the world gathered for a free one night exhibition-cum-party of music and fine art. Click here to read the full review by Yuki Kikuchi.
A Visit To Artist Vanessa Prager's Downtown Los Angeles Studio
Click here to read our interview with Vanessa Prager. photographs by Summer Bowie
Through the Peep Hole: Read Our Conversation With Vanessa Prager Whose Solo Show Is On View Now In New York →
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John Baldessari Signing Autre's Third Issue At His Exhibition On View Now At Sprüth Magers
photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
John Baldessari Inaugural Exhibition At The New Sprüth Magers Gallery In Los Angeles
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 @ MoMA In New York
New Photography, MoMA’s longstanding exhibition series of recent work in photography, returns this fall in an expanded, biannual format. On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, New Photography is expanding to 19 artists and artist collectives from 14 countries, and includes works made specifically for this exhibition. Probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality, Ocean of Images examines various ways of experiencing the world: through images that are born digitally, made with scanners or lenses in the studio or the real world, presented as still or moving pictures, distributed as zines, morphed into three-dimensional objects, or remixed online. Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 will be on view until March 20, 2016 at MoMA in New York.

