Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition 'Selling Sex', SHOWstudio launches 'Fashion Fetish,' a series of fashion films, performances, multi-media pieces and accompanying essays by women in fashion - including Ruth Hogben, Daphne Guinness, Liberty Ross, Aimee Mullins, Asia Argento and Dasha Zhukova - that comment on the contentious and provocative fusion of fashion with fetish. SHOWstudio's newest installment is a film by Luci Schroder called Love Is A State of Mind.
Lisa Solberg Opening Night at This Los Angeles
Lisa Solberg's solo show STALKER will be open until July 15 at THIS Los Angeles, 5906 North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042.
[FIRST LOOK] Juveniles - Through The Night Music Video
Today, Juveniles, the young synth-pop trio from Rennes, France release their video, directed by Edward Housden, for the track Through the Night off their current EP. The film features a the classic gym team practicing in a nondescript basement studio with their tyrannical, overbearing coach.
Jeff Koons The Painter
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A double exhibition of works by artist Jeff Koons will be on view this Summer in Germany, one that focuses on his oeuvra of painting and one of his sculptures. The exhibitions will be on view at the Schirn, which will present Jeff Koons: The Painter and Liebieghaus, which will present Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, in Frankfurt runs until Sept. 23
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Double
On view startin today at Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea, a solo exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, entitled Double. This exhibition examines the broad spectrum of Gonzalez-Torres’s oeuvre with particular emphasis on the malleable nature of his works, demonstrating how their meaning, as much as the form, can shift as the architectural, social, and curatorial landscapes change. The exhibition will also be on view at the sister museum Leeum, as well as multiple locations throughout the city of Seoul, and will also be on view prior to and following the opening of the Gwangju Biennale on September 7th. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died at the early age of 38 in 1996, is considered one of the most influential artists of his generation. Using everyday objects such as mirrors, clocks, puzzles, candies and paper stacks, Gonzalez-Torres’s oeuvre more profoundly examined the “public” function of art, while presenting strictly private contemplations on love and the fragility of life. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Double, will be open until September 28, 2012 at Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Samsung Life Insurance Building Taepyeongno2-Ga, Jung-Gu, Seoul, Korea
The Original Smashbox Assistant Show
Photograph by Sisilia Piring
The Original Smashbox Photo Assistants Show is will be opening this Friday in Los Angeles. Happening each year since 1995, The Smashbox Assistant show has celebrated up and coming Los Angeles based photographers. Opening party Friday June 22, 2012—LightBox Stage in Culver City, RSVP here, 8549 Higuera Street Culver City, CA 90232
Dom Pérignon by David Lynch
Last night at a fête in Los Angeles Dom Pérignon unveiled its newest collaboration with cult auteur David Lynch. Dom Pérignon presents the "Dom Pérignon by David Lynch" limited edition. After photographing the bottles of Dom Pérignon and Dom Pérignon Rosé, David Lynch has reinvented them. The "Dom Pérignon by David Lynch" limited edition takes the form of two gift boxes: one for Dom Pérignon Vintage 2003, the other for Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 2000. They will be available at the end of the year.
David Benjamin Sherry Book Launch In Los Angeles
In Quantum Light, artist David Benjamin Sherry’s second publication, he continues his exploration of vivid color, ramping up the saturation and expanding his subject matter, in works incorporating landscapes, collage, still life, abstraction, portraiture and sculpture. A conversation between Sherry and Collier Schorr serves as preface to this beautifully produced clothbound volume, which is published to coincide with the artist’s first New York solo show at Salon 94. Sherry will be signing his new book this Thursday, June 21, at Ooga Booga bookstore in Los Angeles.
ED RUSCHA: ON THE ROAD in Miami
Exhibition view of Ed Ruscha's series of paintings inspired by Jack Kerouac's On The Road that was previously on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles will be on view at the Moca, North Miami until September 2, 70 NE 125th Street, North Miami, Florida.
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow, a retrospective that spans six decades of one of the most important American artists, is now on view at the Tate in St. Ives until September.
Joe Deutch Retrospective
Among other feats of self-imperilment, his performances have included disabling a police car in broad daylight, being intentionally bitten by a poisonous rattlesnake and, most infamously, playing Russian roulette in front of an art class at UCLA, a performance that has been linked to Burden’s departure from his position at the university. Coming out of a long Los Angeles tradition of performance that includes such canonical artists as Chris Burden and Ron Athey, Joe Deutch’s practice seeks to continue a commitment to physicality through an exploration of his body and the constructed landscape beyond the studio as compelling sites for artworks. Opening June 21 at the Marlborough Chelsea gallery in New York as retrospective of Joe Deutch which will be on view until July 27, 545 West 25th Street, New York,
Mark Steinmetz's Summertime
Charles A. Hartman gallery in Portland presents Summertime, a poignant early body of work by the photographer Mark Steinmetz. The photographs in this exhibition were taken between 1984 and 1991. They were made in Boston and New England, Chicago and rural Illinois, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Like all of Steinmetz's images, they embrace the space between artist and subject with a curiosity that is empathetic and enigmatic. Summertime, a recently published monograph by Nazraeli Press will accompany the exhibition. Summertime will be on view from June 20 to July 28, 2012 at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, Oregon
Sigur Rós Mystery Film Project
This haunting and beautiful short film, which is much more than a music video, is for the Sigur Rós track Fjögur Píanó off their current album Valtari is directed by Alma Har'el and stars Shia LaBeouf and Denna Thomsen. The acclaimed Icelandic band Sigur Rós recently asked a dozen filmmakers to each choose a song from its new album, Valtari, and shoot a video inspired by the music as part of their Mystery Film Project. All the directors received the same $10,000 budget and zero instructions from the band.
Ensemble Economique - Radiate THROUGH Me
This great track comes from Starving Weirdos member Brian Pyle's new musical project Ensemble Economique from a split EP with Lee Noble entitled Motion Forever due out on Hands In The Dark on June 20.
Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs
The visionary author and artist William S. Burroughs has been admired by generations as a revolutionary intellectual with a radical popular image. He established a new form of writing: the cut-up method - whereby text and image fragments are intuitively pieced together to form open associative narrative structures in order to expand the boundaries of language and describe human consciousness. He extended this method into the visual arts and the cut-ups in their various forms are the focus of a new exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien. Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs will be on view until October 21, at the Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1,1070 Wien, Austria
Musique Plastique at Agnès B
Now open at Agnès B's Howard Street gallery an exhibition entitled Musique Plastique, a group exhibit "exploring the ongoing interaction between the visual arts and music." Curated by Jean François Sanz, the show will feature music-themed pieces by the likes of Jean Tobias Bernstrup, Hisham Bharoocha, Etienne Charry, Brian DeGraw, Daniel Johnston, Jonas Mekas, Thurston Moore, David Shrigley, Alan Vega, Ben Vida and Liz Wendelbo. Musique Platique is on view until August 25 at 50 Howard Street, New York, and be sure to head to the Agnès B gallery website to download a compilation by the artists involved.
Allen Jones Retrospective
The leading British Pop artist Allen Jones caused an international furor in 1969 with his provocative furniture sculptures. In 1979, the first large-scale retrospective was devoted to the artist, forty-one at the time, in Liverpool, London, Baden-Baden, and Bielefeld. His 70th birthday was celebrated in 2007 at the Tate Britain in London with an exhibition of current works as well as several early pieces. In time for his 75th birthday, the Kunsthalle Tübingen is extending an invitation to rediscover the oeuvre of the internationally influential artist in the most comprehensive retrospective to date. Allen Jones: The Retrospective on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday will be on view until September 16, 2012 at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Philosophenweg 76 72076 Tübingen Germany
Soko @ The Bottom of The Hill
Adarsha & Soko
Photograph Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Yasmine Eslami In Collaboration with Artist Sylvie Auvray
Parisian artist Sylvie Auvray is currently showing at the Mamco in Genéva. For this occasion she has collaborated with lingerie designer Yasmine Eslami on a series of drawings that will be embroidered on Eslami's classic cotton boxer shorts. Sylvie Auvray's Geneva series will be on view until September 16 at Mamco.