Home Improvements Group Show, Curated by John Waters @ FraenkelLAB in San Francisco

FraenkelLAB presents its first exhibition, Home Improvements, curated by John Waters. This eclectic group exhibition will encompass works in a wide range of media by Martin Creed, Moyra Davey, Vincent Fecteau, Paul Gabrielli, gelitin, Paul Lee, Tony Matelli, Doug Padgett, Karin Sander, Gedi Sibony, Lily van der Stokker, and George Stoll. John Waters describes the exhibition as “a celebration of the low-tech concept of ‘remodeling’. These twelve artists’ humble but surprisingly imperious paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings will hopefully make any serious property owner want to throw caution to the wind, pack up their living space, and start over.” Home Improvements will be on view until May 16, 2016 @ FraenkelLAB, 1632 Market Street, San Francisco, CA. photographs by Bradley Golden

One Work from Catherine Fairbanks' New Solo Exhibition @ Wilding Cran Gallery In Los Angeles

Wilding Cran Gallery presents Two Chimneys, Catherine Fairbanks’s first solo show in Los Angeles. The exhibition will feature new sculptures and works on paper. The exhibition is structured around two large chimney sculptures that reflect on the ruins of domestic buildings across the West. Originally constructed according to a particular purpose, over time abandoned chimneys gradually assume the function of a monument. Like these chimneys, Fairbanks often makes use of forms and materials which first appear in culture one way, only to reappear later in another way, transformed. Catherine Fairbanks "Two Chimneys" will be on view until May 28, 2016 at Wilding Cran Gallery, 939 South Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles CA

Moon Ribas "Waiting For Earthquakes" @ The Chimney In New York

Last night the Catalan artist Moon Ribas performed Waiting for Earthquakes at the Chimney NYC in Bushwick. The one-night performance curated by Adriana Pauly was held in front of the backdrop of Kiran Chandra’s video installation Mother of Intentions. Ribas whose practice investigates the intersectionality of nature, technology and humanity, moved behind the thin curtains of Chandra’s exhibition. The hanging curtains and dancing shadows of the opposing projections mimic the shadow play of Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave, further underlined by the invisible power that determined Ribas’ movements. Ribas physically experiences the vibrations of earthquakes around the world in real time through a sensor implanted in her elbow, giving her an additional sense she calls the seismic sense. She becomes further removed from humanity than the prisoners of Plato’s cave yet more connected to the earth its powerful interplay. photographs by Andres Burgos

Adam Green "Aladdin" @ The Hole Gallery In New York

The Hole presents an exhibition of “Adam Green’s Aladdin”, a feature-length movie that is a “total artwork”. Immersive painted sets replete with complex painted papier-mache sculptures will be on view in the main space, while Gallery 3 will feature a ticketed screening of the movie every night at 7PM. Adam Green "Aladdin" will be on view until April 14, 2016 at The Hole, 312 Bowery, New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Life's A Gasssss: Oliver Clegg Talks About His First Solo Exhibition In the US, Making Art For Sigmund Freud's Desk and The Information Age →

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Read Our Exclusive Interview With The Legendary Artist and Sculptor Allen Jones From Autre's LOVE Issue Out Now →

Allen Jones is a living legend. To this day, his iconic furniture sculptures literally stand, kneel and hunch over, as life-like remnants of not only the pop art movement, but also the sexual revolution of the 1960s. When Jones’ trademark fornophillic work, Hatstand, Table and Chair was unveiled in 1970, it was met with both praise and militant protest. Indeed, the work is combustible and tears down some of the tallest walls we have built around our understanding of figurative art. But if you ask Jones if he is a rebel, as we did in the following interview, he will tell you that he is only carrying the torch that many artists have carried before him and not using the torch to burn down the institution. If you’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the novel A Clockwork Orange, you’ve seen interpretations of Jones’ oeuvre in the famous Korova Milk Bar. Kubrick asked Jones if he would recreate some of his furniture sculptures for the film, but the artist politely declined. Click here to read more. 

Hanna Liden "No Weather Data Available" @ 56 Henry Gallery In New York

In the main gallery Liden presents three cast-concrete sculptures, all molded from crook-handle umbrellas. Rendered in battleship grey, deep charcoal, and cautionary orange, the umbrella sculptures are suspended at inconsistent heights from the gallery ceiling. Two umbrellas dangle from welded industrial chain, and a third hangs from a noose looped around its handle. Strung up by their necks, the casts begin to resemble bodies hanged from an executioner’s scaffold. Hanna Liden "No Weather Data Available" will be on view until May 1, 2016 at 56 Henry Gallery in New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer