Yoko Ono Presents Peace Grant to Pussy Riot

Artist Yoko Ono presents the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace to Pyotr Verzilov and 4-year old Gera, husband and daughter of Nadia Tolokonnikova, one of the three imprisoned Pussy Riot members in New York. Pussy Riot is one the recipients of the 2012 Lennon Ono Grant For Peace, that also includes Lady Gaga and the late Christopher Hitchens. The awards will be given in Reykjavik, Iceland on Oct 9th 2012 - the birthday of John Lennon.

Hue & Cry Curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld

Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld hosts a one night only selling exhibition in collaboration with Sotheby's. Entitled  Hue + Cry, Roitfeld says about the exhibition: "In a networked age of following and sharing — of “pinning,” tweeting,” and “liking” virtual images of fleeting consequence — Hue & Cry strives to lead with the first embodied principles of painting and sculpture. Always physical and tactile, the tools remain simple, the colors a vivid spectrum, and the results infinitely variable as each of the twenty artists gathered here strives to ignite their own interior light." Artist such as Nicolas Pol and abstract sculptor Robert Melee, among others, will be on view. Hue & Cry will be on view October 5, 2012 at Sotheby's S2 Gallery, 1334 York Avenue, New York

Wolfgang Tillmans Neue World Exhibition and Book

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Tillmans's latest project sets its sights on the world. Over the period of more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From snapshots of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this collection of photos, his fourth book with Taschen, Tillmans turned away from the self-reflexive exploration of the photography medium that had occupied him for several years by focusing his lens on the outside world—from London and Nottingham to Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia, and Papua New Guinea. He describes this new phase simply as “trying out what the camera can do for me, what I can do for it.” The result is a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world, seen from many angles. Says Tillmans, “My travels are aimless as such, not looking for predetermined results, but hoping to find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I'm in.” The exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans: Neue Welt / Wolfgang Tillmans. New World will be on show at the Kunsthalle in Zurich until November 2012. The  monograph will be available on October 30, but is available for preorder now. 

Memory Tapes Set To Release New Album

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Dayve Hawks (AKA Memory Tapes) is set to release what could be his most experimental album to date on December 4 via Carpark Records, entitled Grace/Confusion. The album "inhabits more the title's first word than the last, showcasing an artist embracing his idiosyncrasies and constructing beauty from chaos." Hear the first track released from the album – a chaotic, electronic love ballad called Sheila. Hear song after the jump.

Edible Selby Exhibition

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Todd Selby will premiere his second solo exhibition at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta by transforming the gallery space into a cornucopia of international food artisans with their delectable creations drawn passionately from his highly acclaimed NYTimes: T Magazine column. There will also be an early release of his new book Edible Selby, officially released by Abrams in October. Todd Selby: Edible Selbywill be on view until November 17, 2012 at Jackson Fine Art, 3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. 

Luc Tuymans' Allo! At David Zwirner London

David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Luc Tuymans, which will inaugurate the gallery’s first European location on 24 Grafton Street in Mayfair, London. The Belgian artist joined David Zwirner in 1994 and this marks his ninth solo show with the gallery and the first in London since his 2004 retrospective at the Tate Modern. Tuymans is widely credited with having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. His sparsely colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills. The present exhibition comprises a series of paintings entitled Allo! While an initial source of inspiration was Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), the visual reference for the works was the final scene in the 1942 film The Moon and Sixpence, which itself is an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s eponymous novel from 1919. The plot is loosely based upon the life of Paul Gauguin and revolves around a stockbroker who leaves his job and family to become an artist, eventually settling in Tahiti. Following his death several years later, his doctor travels to the primitive studio he left behind and discovers his paintings—swirly, colorful landscapes and nudes—moments before the late artist’s Tahitian widow sets fire to everything. Luc Tuymans: Allo! will be on view from October 5 to November 17, 2012 at David Zwirner Gallery, 24 Grafton Street, London.

Mike Kelley Exhibition in Los Angeles

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Perry Rubenstein Gallery announces Mike Kelley: Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites, the second autumn exhibition in the new Los Angeles gallery. One of Kelley’s most significant works, this room-sized installation has never before been exhibited in Los Angeles.Early in his career, Kelley began incorporating found thrift-store stuffed animals and household cleaning products into large installations which challenged viewers with contrasting feelings of delight and repulsion, empathy and confusion. Consisting of a thirteen-part hanging plush sculpture surrounded by slick, geometric wall reliefs which fill the room with a subtle chemical pine-scent, Deodorized Central Mass with Satellitesembodies. the fullest and most dynamic iteration of this significant component of the artist’s practice. Mike Kelley (1954 – 2012), who committed suicide this year, was a central figure and beloved colleague and mentor in Los Angeles’ vibrant visual art community for decades. Mike Kelley: Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites will be on view from November 2 to December 15, 2012 at Perry Rubenstein Gallery, 1215 N. Highland Avenue, Los Angeles.

Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery

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Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b.1960) is known as the art world’s agent provocateur, using what seem to be stunts to address universal themes around the nature of dogma, power and death. A new solo display, currently on view at Whitechapel Gallery in London, includes one of his earliest works - a miniature family kitchen featuring a squirrel that has committed suicide. Bidibidobidiboo (1996), after the fairy godmother’s song in Disney’s Cinderella, encapsulates Cattelan’s acerbic wit and his melancholic worldview. This exhibition is a part of a series of exhibitions presenting the Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from Turin. The exhibition opened yesterday and is on view until December 2, 2012, at Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London.