"Don't Look Back: The 90s At MOCA" Group Show @ The Museum of Contemporary Art In Los Angeles

Donโ€™t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA comprises works from MOCAโ€™s permanent collection that identify the recent decadeโ€™s key concerns and transformations, including many that have not been on view since originally shown and acquired. If the 1980s were shaped by the advent of identity politics, producing significant works that examined the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality, the 1990s both extended and challenged these ideas. Many artists turned to large-scale installations as a way to convey a complicated interface between the public and the museum, or to articulate the realms of overlap and dissonance in individual and public identities. The exhibition includes works by Catherine Opie, Cady Noland, Sarah Sze, and Paul McCarthy, among others, and explores the complexities of the period by dividing the presentation into six thematically grouped sections, titled: Installation; The Outmoded; Noir America; Place and Identity; Touch, Intimacy, and Queerness; and Space, Place, and Scale. Donโ€™t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA will be on view until July 11, 2016 at the Museum of Contemporary Art In Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

A Sneak Peek of Hauser Wirth and Schimmel's Inaugural Exhibition At Their Brand New Outpost In Los Angeles

Autre got a chance to check out a private preview of Hauser Wirth and Schimmel's brand new outpost in Los Angeles. The gallery currently presents โ€˜Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 โ€“ 2016,โ€™ the inaugural exhibition at its new complex in the heart of the downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Through nearly 100 works made by 34 artists over the past seventy years, this ambitious undertaking traces ways in which women have changed the course of art by deftly transforming the language of sculpture since the postwar period. Works on view reveal their makers inventing radically new forms and processes that privilege solo studio practice, tactility, and the idiosyncrasies of the artistโ€™s own hand. โ€˜Revolution in the Makingโ€™ explores multiple strains of artistic approaches, characterized by abstraction and repetition, that reject the precedent of a monolithic masterwork on a pedestal, employing such tactics as stacking, hanging, and intertwining, to create an intimate reciprocity between artist and viewer. โ€˜Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 โ€“ 2016' will be on view from March 13 to September 4, 2016 at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Pulverizing Rabbits: Read Our Interview With Artist Ariana Papademetropoulos Before Her Solo Show Opening This Weekend In Los Angeles →

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 โ€“ it's a boundless creativity that bursts with schizophrenic, hallucinatory imaginativeness. Her paintings literally split at the imaginary seams, tearing into new images โ€“ 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 artistโ€™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 meaningโ€”to abandon the role of passive onlooker and become an active collaborator. Thematically, Richmondโ€™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

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 Genzkenโ€™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. Genzkenโ€™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 Hรผbsch" 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 โ€˜60sโ€™ RSVP to bell@hauserwirth.com or call +1 212 794 4970

Mick Rock: Remembering Bowie and Alejandro Iรฑรกrritu: 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 Gonzรกlez Iรฑรกrrituโ€™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 filmโ€™s extreme conditions and serene settings. The exhibit will be an exclusive first look at material for an upcoming Tascene Collectorโ€™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