Nice Interview With Adarsha Benjamin @ Hillbilly Mag

Adarsha talks photography, rebel, and the future with Christopher Lusher of Hillbilly Magazine: "Adarsha Benjamin is truly a unique and creative soul. I first encountered her work when I began contributing to Pas Un Autre where she holds reigns with Oliver Maxwell Kupper. Her work is beautiful and dreamy just like the woman herself." Read more here. 

Cross Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Throughout his creative life, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) has drawn inspiration from themes that have inspired artists for centuries. This exhibition will focus on some of the major areas of inspiration in Ferlinghetti’s work, reflected in writings, paintings, and graphic works. The four themes include: 1) Her-Woman, the Sea, Liberation/Pacifism and Art and Literature. With assistance from City Lights publishers, poems and text will accompany the visual art. Cross Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti will be on view until September 23, 2012 at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art,  551 Broadway, Sonoma, California

JILL MAGID: The Status of the Shooter

Yvon Lambert gallery presents The Status of the Shooter, the third solo exhibition of the american artist Jill Magid. The exhibition will take place at the Yvon Lambert Gallery until the 28th of July 2012. The Status of the Shooter is the search for a body amid the moral panic and institutional response to a school shooting. Galerie Yvon Lambert, 108 rue Vieille du Temple, Paris

CLAXONS

Haunch of Venison presents Claxons, a group show curated by art critic Walter Robinson. The show will feature works by ceramic artist Elisabeth Kley, glass artist John Drury, painter Robert Goldman and Robinson. The exhibition aims to present underrepresented artists with an idiosyncratic sensibility. The title of the show Claxons (or loud horns) refers to the idea that artists create dissonance and cacophony. “It’s about letting oneself be carried along by events rather than trying to steer a clear path,” explained Robinson. “Each artist’s work is disturbed, either through subject matter that focuses on outcasts or through execution of materiality.” Claxons will be on view until August 17 at Haunch of Venison, Chelsea, 550 West 21st Street

Mauricio Guillén: Avenida Progreso

The work of the Mexican-born artist Mauricio Guillén (b. 1971) encompasses film, photography, text works and objects. Guillén combines personal experience with the conceptual strategies he uses to explore how images and language influence our understanding of culture and history. The chief focus of the exhibition at the MMK Zollamt will be Guillén’s most recent 16-mm black-and-white film "Avenida Progreso", for which he returned to Mexico City, where he spent his childhood and teenage years. The film story leads the viewer through the districts of Polanco, Irrigación and Oceanía to the end of the Avenida Progreso. A professor of philosophy and aesthetics is the main protagonist in this anachronistic journey along streets of which many bear the names of such European philosophers and literary figures as Goethe, Byron, Marx, Tolstoi and Aristoteles. In this film, Guillén investigates social and cultural differences within a society that is undergoing a process of change but nevertheless still reflects the impact of the cultural import brought about by colonization. Questions about the emergence and distribution of knowledge and education in society are of key importance to the artist’s work. The film will be supplemented by photographs and text works.
 Opening Friday July 27 at the MMK Zollamt, Domstraße 10 60311 Frankfurt, Germany, 

Nobuyoshi Araki Art Editions Coming Soon to Taschen

Two art editions by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki from his famous bondage series will be available by Taschen coming this September. Each edition will be available in three volumes, enticingly hand-bound in the Japanese tradition and packaged in a wooden box, featuring Araki’s selection of his favorite bondage photos from over his entire career. Each volume will be limited to only 50 copies, each numbered and signed by Nobuyoshi Araki himself and will include a photograph from the series.