Amy O'Neill HLUSA at the Swedish Institute

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Amy O'Neill's impressive and varied body of work includes drawings, installations, sculptures, and videos which reference Americana, art history, and folk art. In this exhibition, O'Neill creates a super-sized environment filled with religious and cultural symbols that explore the American penchant for monumentalism in various forms. The exhibition's title, HLUSA, is an initialism referencing Holy Land USA, an abandoned 18-acre theme park in Waterbury, Connecticut. Amy O'Neill HLUSA will be on view until January 27, 2013, at The Swedish Institute of Contemporary Art, 18 Wooster Street  New York, NY

Edward Kienholz The Ozymandias Parade at Pace Gallery

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A presentation of the monumental installation The Ozymandias Parade (1985), a scathing commentary on the abuse of political power, on view in New York for the first time since the Whitney Museum's retrospective in 1996. The exhibition also features ten Concept Tableaux, Edward Kienholz's instructions for unrealized installations. Kienholz: The Ozymandias Parade / Concept Tableaux will be on view until December 22, 2012 at Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York NY

[PHOTOS] Autre Infinite Journal Printing In New York

Autre's Infinite Journal printing over the weekend in New York. Get a sneak peek of what's inside the issue, including a cover photograph by Adarsha Benjamin and art by Alia Penner, with photos by James Franco, and more. The Infinite Issue will be available in Miami as part of Art Basel and will be available in select cities soon. Photographs by Annabel Graham.

Behind The Scenes of Autre's Art Basel Edition Cover Shoot

Super Eight Fragments by Adarsha Benjamin, with music by Guy Blakeslee. Behind the scenes of the the cover shoot for AUTRE’s Art Basel Edition: The Infinite Journal. Photography: Adarsha Benjamin/Model: Breanna Box/Makeup:Bethany McCarty/Hair:Clark Phillips/Styling: Julia and Vaness Ehrlich. Shot on Location at James Georgopoulos Studios in Venice, CA. Sign up for the newsletterto find a copy.

Bob Carlos Clarke Live Fast Die Young at The Society Club

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Scarlett Carlos Clarke presents Live Fast Die Young, a photographic exhibition of the late Bob Carlos Clarke at The Society Club in Soho. A prolific but troubled photographer, Bob Carlos Clarke was known for his pictures of rock stars and erotic — sometimes shocking — images of women. Live Fast Die Young will be on view until January 30, 2012 at The Society Club, 12 Ingestre Place, London

Adarsha Benjamin's Kurt Premiers This Week In Miami

Presented by the Friends of Gusman-Red Curtain Series, Olympia Theater, Autre/Art Now & Onward Forward. Performances by Ryan Huffington with music by Guy Blakeslee. A live performance by Thurston Moore. Thursday, December 6, 2012. Doors open at 7 P.M. Event begins promptly at 8 P.M. At Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center, 174 East Flaglet Street, Downtown Miami. Tickets $25. Purchase tickets HERE. For more info visit www.onfwd.com

[SNEAK PEEK] Autre Presents the Infinite Journal

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Autre's Art Basel Edition fresh off the press today, THE INFINITE JOURNAL, will be available this week in Miami and soon in cities worldwide. Cover photograph by Adarsha Benjamin and art by Alia Penner, other contributors include James Franco, Amanda Charchian, Cole Sternberg, James Georgopoulos, Daniel Pinchbeck and more. More photos coming soon. Sign up for newsletter to find out where you can find a copy.

Winston Chmielinski Ecstatic Skin @ Envoy Enterprises

Envoy Enterprises presents Ecstatic Skin, Winston Chmielinski's first solo exhibition in New York. Chmielinski's paintings indiscriminately engage figuration and abstraction by using color and form to create emotionally-charged re-imaginings of the familiar. This exhibition presents the artist's continued investigations of the body as well as its surrogate forms in nature, with a focus on plants and lighted expanses. Ecstatic Skin will be on view until  December 31, 2012 at Envoy Enterprises, 87 Rivington Street, New York, NY. Photographs by Annabel Graham. 

Takashi Murakami Flowers and Skulls at Gagosian Hong Kong

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This exhibition, Takashi Murakami's first in Hong Kong, explores one of the central dichotomies of his art—between joy and terror, his optimistic magnanimity as an artist and his pessimistic perspective on postwar Japan. Here, this dichotomy is symbolized by the stark contrast of bright smiling flowers and disturbing, menacing representations of skulls. Flowers and Skulls will be on view until February 9, 2012, at Gagosian Gallery, 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street Central, Hong Kong 

[FIRST LOOK] Music Video for Jessica Holter Goddess Eyes II

Julia Holter and director Yelena Zhelezov have collaborated once again in video form. Having previously worked together on the video for Moni Mon Amie from Holter's 2012 album Ekstasis, the two Los Angeles-based artists (and friends) constructed a landscape over which Holter's all-seeing eye purveys the predictable events turned inexplicably preposterous. "The video for Julia's 'Goddess Eyes II' is inspired by the Latin phrase 'deus ex machine,'" says Zhelezov. "In theater, deus ex machina is plot device for seemingly unresolvable dramaturgical situations. The video is in tribute to Euripides and the literary spirit of the song that the video was conceived and directed.The video is Holter's sixth and final video from Ekstasis. 

Barbara Nitke Presents American Ecstasy at Photo NOLA

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Barbara Nitke will be in New Orleans this weekend as part of Photo NOLA to promote her book American Ecstasy, a memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years Nitke spent working as a still photographer on porn movie sets in New York in the 1980's at the end of the Golden Age of Porn. On Friday Nitke will be presenting a slide show presentation and book signing at Happy Hour Salon at Press Street HQ and Sunday, December 2 there will be a pop-up opening at Barrister's Gallery.

Judy Chicago in London

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This November sees the publication of a scholarly survey of artist, writer and feminist activist Judy Chicago's career, reflecting on and accompanying an exhibition of works on paper at the Ben Uri Museum in London. Her work will be set in the context of prominent women artists Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick and Tracey Emin. This, along with an exhibition of her iconic early works (1963-71) at Riflemaker gallery constitute her first solo shows in the UK. Judy will also stage special events at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and Black-E institute, Liverpool.