Paul McCarthy "Raw Spinoffs Continuations" @ Hauser & Wirth Gallery In New York

Hauser & Wirth presents ‘Raw Spinoffs Continuations’, an exhibition of sculptures by Paul McCarthy. Featuring works from the artist’s most important projects of the last 15 years, including ‘WS’, ‘Caribbean Pirates’, and ‘Pig Island’, ‘Raw Spinoffs Continuations’ celebrates McCarthy’s distinctive process in the making and un-making of an artwork. Raw Spinoffs Continuations will be on view until January 14, 2017 at Hauser and Wirth, 18th Street in New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Anxiety Group Show @ HVW8 Art and Design Gallery In Los Angeles

“Anxiety” engages with the common suggestion that art is a reflection of society. Art can serve as an expressive platform for individuals, groups, as well as society as a whole, especially accessible when radical changes or impactful events occur. It is powerful enough to portray the current emotions of a society, exposing harsh and subtle truths, while encouraging a change for the better. The exhibition explores and addresses the idea of art as a vehicle to illustrate and illuminate events and experiences. “Anxiety” addresses the unnerving tension of the strange climate of present day. Whether personal, political, economic, social, or geographical, it’s undeniably a strange moment on every macro and micro level. This show is an investigation of individual responses to a collective uneasiness. Anxiety Group Show will be on view until December 16, 2016 at HVW8 Art and Design Gallery at 661 N. Spaulding Ave. Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

"True Love Over Physics" Inaugural Group Show @ COMA Gallery In Sydney

The inaugural exhibition in the gallery, COMA presents ‘True Love Over Physics’, a group show exploring the nature of creation in its many forms and the idea of creation before and over anything else. Each artwork in the show approaches the theme individually, and together they present a uniform vision of varying patterns of creation and corresponding thought processes. Artists included in ‘True Love Over Physics’ are Cornelia Baltes, Gabriele Beveridge, Ophelia Finke, Brian Kokoska, Ebecho Muslimova, Oliver Osborne, Jon Pilkington, Yves Scherer, Colin Snapp and Chris Succo. True Love Over Physics will be on view until November 28, 2016 at COMA Gallery in Sydney, Australia. photographs by Darren Luk

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Wolfgang Tillmans Exhibition @ Regen Projects Gallery In Los Angeles

Regen Projects presents an exhibition of photographs by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. For his seventh solo show at the gallery Tillmans brings together a broad selection of new and previously unseen work that spans the various themes, visual motifs, and processes developed over the course of his career. The exhibition revisits long-standing interests present in the artist’s oeuvre. A recent picture depicting a pair of black shorts draped on a banister references an early motif expressed in ‘grey jeans over stairpost,’ taken in 1991. Several startlingly pink large-scale abstract works from his signature Freischwimmer/Greifbar series are prominently affixed onto the gallery walls. Examples of Tillmans’s interest in exploring the fundamental qualities of the photographic process, these non lens-based photographs are the result of light exposed onto color photographic paper. Shown together these works challenge common perceptions of the real and question how photographic processes change our conception of the world around us. The exhibition will be on view until December 23, 2016 at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Iggy Pop Life Class by Jeremy Deller Opens Today @ The Brooklyn Museum in New York

In Iggy Pop Life Class, Turner Prize–winning artist Jeremy Deller used the traditional life drawing class to stage a performative event with Iggy Pop as model and subject. The exhibition, opening today at Brooklyn Museum, presents the resulting drawings along with works from historical collections, chosen by Deller, that depict the male body, examining shifting representations of masculinity throughout history. The fifty-three drawings included in the exhibition were created on February 21, 2016, during a one-day life drawing class, using Pop as the unexpected model. The class was held at the New York Academy of Art and included twenty-two artists drawn from New York City’s diverse communities, ranging in age from 19 to 80, with varying backgrounds and levels of education and experience. The class was led by artist and drawing professor Michael Grimaldi. Jeremy Deller "Iggy Pop Life Class" will be on view from November 4, 2016 to March 26, 2017 at Brooklyn Museum in New York. photograph by Elena Olivo

Juergen Teller To Curate An Exhibition Of Photographs By Robert Mapplethorpe in London

To coincide with what would have been the 70th birthday of the iconic American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, gallerist Alison Jacques has invited acclaimed UK-based, German-born photographer Juergen Teller to curate an exhibition of Mapplethorpe's work. Teller worked in collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York to make his selection. Teller On Mapplethorpe will open November 18, 2016 at Alison Jacques gallery in London. photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe

Read Our Interview Of Double Diamond Sun Body On His Musical Beginnings In Seattle's Grunge Scene and His Current Spiritual Investigations →

When Miles Davis scored Louis Malle’s Elevator To The Gallows, he took a wild approach that was as daring as it was genius. He simply watched the film from beginning to end, took some notes, wrote a few themes in his hotel room and then handed them to a small band in the morning. From there they followed his lead as he improvised his way through a second screening of the film. He didn’t read the script, he didn’t speak French, and he certainly didn’t know much about French new wave. Miraculously, the result was uncanny in its ability to capture the very essence of loneliness and desperation. He had an incredible facility for processing an image and then giving it a sonic projection that glides right past the intellectualization process and rings clear as a bell right in the central nervous system. Thus is the facility that is immediately evident in the work of Robbie Williamson, otherwise known as Double Diamond Sun Body. Click here to read more

Read Our Interview Of Legendary Japanese Photographer Keizo Kitajima On The Photographic Process And His New Solo Show In Los Angeles →

You could say that Keizo Kitajima is an heir to the Provoke photography movement’s electrifying foundation and principle idea that a photographic image can be a completely new type of language. It’s a language fired from the shutter of a camera – a lexicon that can encapsulate a fraction of a moment, yet recite an epic in a single explosive image. Often blurry, out of focus and with choking contrast, the short lived movement made icons out of photographers such as Daido Moriyama. Moriyama also seemed to have the most influence, especially on Kitajima who was encouraged to carry on in the tradition of Provoke, but also expand beyond its confines – to travel the world to see if that same language could tell a more universal story. Click here to read more. 

Adel Abdessemed "Politics Of Drawing" @ Cahiers d'Art in Paris

Cahiers d'Art presents the exhibition, entitled Politics Of Drawing, of new works by Adel Abdessemed in their gallery space at 14, rue du Dragon, Paris 6th, which will be open until January 28, 2017. The exhibition will show three new editions by Adel Abdessemed published by Cahiers d'Art as well as one original drawing. photographs by Mazzy-Mae Green