The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

"Messy, isn't it," his suicide note read. Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were devastated though not entirely surprised. To many, Brautigan was shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation. But his career was formidable. Brautigan’s career wove its way through both the Beat-influenced San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s and the “Flower Power” hippie movement of the 1960s; while he never claimed direct artistic involvement with either period, Jubilee Hitchhiker also delves deeply into the spirited times in which he lived. Part history, part biography, and part memoir this etches the portrait of a man destroyed by his genius.

Lisa Solberg STALKER at THIS Los Angeles

THIS Los Angeles presents Stalker, a solo installation of mixed media by Lisa Solberg opening tonight. Lisa uses reflective insulation panels and cutting techniques to create a world of poetic, bold and thoughtful imagery focused on the sublime. The combining of ink and paint to the finished surfaces compliments the inherent dynamics of the material. The work is intimate and echoes the bold and provocative sentiments of public spaces. Lisa Solberg has presented an aesthetic both primitive, subjective and haunting, her uninhibited display of passion and talent with both the imagery and materials have displayed a unique world and quality of otherness. The panels on view mimic pieces of a large puzzle to complete the Stalker environment and thought, exposing Solberg’s personal expressions, desires and intimacies. Lisa Solberg, born 1983 in Chicago, is an expressionist artist currently living in Los Angeles. Stalker will be on view from June 15 to July 14 at THIS Los Angeles, 5906 North Figueroa Street Los Angeles, California

Wim Delvoye at the Louvre

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The Louvre invites Wim Delvoye, most famous for his tattooed pigs and x-ray sex series, to intervene at various locations within the museum and nearby: in the galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts, under the Pyramid, and in the Tuileries gardens. On view until September 17, 2012. Follow Autre on Instagram for more updates: @autremagazine

Abstract Painter Georges Mathieu Dies at 91

French artist Georges Mathieu died in Paris on June 10 at the age of 91. Georges Mathieu was a complete artist: writer, architect, author of Désormais seul en face de Dieu (1998), graphic designer, painter and inventor of a genuine and independent pictorial language orientated in opposition to geometrical abstraction. He wanted his work to be one of speed, in order not to be overshadowed by doubts. He fought for an art liberated from the classic boundaries that he called “lyrical abstraction." There have been over a hundred exhibitions dedicated to the artist. Georges Mathieu never had any art education. In 1947 he was working for American Express in Paris, France and rented a chambre de bonne near the Palais Luxembourg. There he executed a number of large canvases with a black background on which he painted colored scrolls, whorls and other shapes. He subsequently refined his technique, using a white background on which he painted simple geometrical forms, most often a single line in color.

Cristóbal Jodorowsky Exhibition in Chile

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Currently on view at a gallery in Santiago, Chile a series of recent works by Cristóbal Jodorowsky (Mexico City, 1965), son of cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky, in his distinct style of mixing pop iconography with religious symbolism. The exhibition, entitled  Reflejo de Soñados (Reflection of Dreaming Bodies),  will also be accompanied by the release of a new book of poetry.  On view at the Local Arte Contemporaneo Gallery, Av. Italia 1129, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.

.45 POINT BLANK

In December of 2011 while walking on Sunset Blvd, near the intersection of Vine Street, Gregory Bojorquez was caught in the crossfire of a shoot out between a gunman and LAPD. As Bojorquez instinctively snapped pictures, police shot the gunman dead in the street. One innocent bystander was also shot and later died in the hospital. Bojorquez’ photographs were carried by hundreds of newspapers around the world, but have never before been available to view as a sequence of fine art prints. Using these series of photographs as a backbone, Bene Taschen (son of Benedict Taschen) has curated a retrospective of sorts of photographs by Bojorquez from the 90s and 2000s. Gregory Bojorquez .45 POINT BLANK will be on view at the Hardhitta Gallery  until July 12, East Annex, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Angeli: Icones

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Alain Delon et Mireille d'Arc leave a party. Photograph by iconic French paparazzo Daniel Angeli, whose exhibition of photographs from the 60s and 70s, entitled Icônes, is on view until June 19 in the Galerie Art District at the Hôtel Royal Monceau 41, av. Hoche 75008 Paris.

Venus Over Manhattan

Venus Over Manhattan, a new exhibition space created by art collector and writer Adam Lindemann, opened to the public in New York City on May 9, 2012 with the inaugural exhibition À rebourswhich is on view now. Including several dozen works of art spanning the 19th century to the present. The exhibition takes its title from Joris-Karl Huysmans’ 1884 anti-novel “À rebours” known in English either as “against the grain” or “against nature.” This tale of fin-de-siècle decadence tells the story of the Duc Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric aristocrat who recoils from the manners and values of conservative Parisian society and flees to the countryside to immerse himself in art collecting and exotic fetishism. À rebours at Venus over Manhattan explores the notion of “against the grain” through a selection of more than 50 works including African fetishes. The artists represented range from Odilon Redon – the favorite of the book’s protagonist – to Henri Fuseli, Gustave Moreau, Felicien Rops, and the like of Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and the late Dash Snow. À rebours will be on view at Venus Over Manhattan until June 30th, 980 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor.

Blue Daze With Yves Klein

Yves Klein, who once claimed the entire sky as his greatest artwork, patented his own pigment of blue, and used live naked women to paint some his most ingenious masterpieces, was arguably the most brilliantly creative artist of the 20th century.  On the 50th anniversary of Yves Klein’s death, two masterpieces by the artist will be offered in Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction, London on 27 June. This follows the outstanding result achieved at Christie's New York last May when the legendary FC 1 (Fire-Color 1), painted only a few weeks before his death at the age of 34, using fire and his unique color of blue, sold for $36,482,500 (£22,619,150), setting a new world record for the artist at auction. Up for auction: Le Rose du bleu (RE 22), painted with illuminating rose cadmium and by far the largest pink sponge relief ever created and included in all the artist’s major exhibitions over the past 50 years, Relief éponge bleu (RE 51), the ultramarine blue sponge relief previously owned by Lucio Fontana, and Anthropométrie (ANT49).

Richard Phillips: First Point

Premiering today as part of Art Unlimited at Art Basel 2012, pop artist Richard Phillips’ short film entitled First Point featuring Lindsay Lohan. Richard Phillips has been exploring the production of film and photographic media as a means of expanding beyond the appropriation strategies that have defined his work in the past by painting unique portraits from his own films which he stages and shoots himself.  He completed his first two films, Lindsay Lohanand Sasha Grey, in the spring of 2011 for the Commercial Break film project presented concurrently to the Venice Biennale. First Point–Phillips' third film—is a collaboration between the artist, Lindsay Lohan, and the legendary surf filmmaker Taylor Steele. The film visits two locations: a private beach surf compound and Malibu's iconic Surfrider Beach, accessible to the public, which boasts some of California's most perfect waves. First Point presents a postmodern take on the surf film genre through an abstract framework of imagery in which the actress engages in cinema performance tropes inspired by contemporary film noir. Presented by Gagosian Gallery, First Point will premier as part of Art Basel's Art Unlimited which will see its invitation only, VIP release today and a public opening on June 14 until June 17.

Julien Langendorff: Sniffing Glitter in the Afterworld

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Artist Julien Langendorff, a Paris-based artist and musician will be having a solo show at Agnès b.’s Galerie du Jour in Paris. Julien Langendorff’s installations, paper cut-outs collages, drawings, collages and films have been exhibited in numerous galleries in New York, Tokyo and Europe since 2005. Sniffing Glitter in the Afterworld will be on view from June 9 to July 21 at Agnes B' Galerie Du Jour, 44 Rue Quincampoix 

Dan Colen in New York & Paris

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Dan Colen will be having two exhibitions of his unique artworks presented by the Gagosian Gallery in both New York and Paris. On view now publicly for the first time outside the famed Seagrams Building in New York, Dan Colen’s sculpture, entitled Cracks in the Clouds (2010), consists of 13 motorcycles kicked over in a row. Originally shown in the artist’s Poetry exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, the bikes were custom-built and painted to replicate those Colen photographed outside the Hells Angels club on East 3rd Street.  And coming up on June 12, Dan Colen's first solo exhibition in Paris, Out of the Blue, Into the Black is a eulogy in three parts comprising paintings, installation, and a sculpture. The title conflates two songs that open and close Neil Young’s 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps: “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” and “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", with its famous line “It’s better to burn out than to fade away,” which Young wrote in reference to his personal fears of becoming obsolete and, correspondingly, to the then-recent deaths of Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious, and which was invoked many years later by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note. Similarly, Colen has used the lyrics here to evoke a fear of the erosion of influence, to point to the ways in which death inflects celebration, and to remind us of what we try to hold on to, even as it eludes our grasp. Cracks in the Clouds will be on view until September 30, 2012 and Out of the Blue, Into the Blackwill be on view from June 12 to July 28, 2012 Gagosian Gallery, 4 rue de Ponthieu, Paris.