Silvia Prada The New Modern Hair @ The Pacific Design Center

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The New Modern Hair, an upcoming solo exhibition by Spanish artist Silvia Prada, is an artistic representation of the subtle nuances and cues that help define the male persona, identity and representation within the parameters of visual and popular culture. With her book The New Modern Hair: A Styling Chart as departure point, Prada has created a series of drawings, poster montages and large-scale murals, capturing the typecasting and idealized character building that has become ingrained in our minds through media, pop culture and iconography. An accompanying magazine and first issue of The New Modern Hair will be published by cultureEDIT and available February 1st at select retailers and newsstands worldwide. Featuring text by Miguel Figueroa, US Editor of Fanzine137, Candy and EY! Magateen. The New Modern Hair will be on view from January 18, 2013 to February 26, 2013 at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Frank Gehry at Gagosian Beverly Hills

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Frank Gehry, pictured left, at Gagosian Gallery's opening of the presentation of his new Fish Lamps. The exhibition will be presented concurrently in Los Angeles and in Paris. Since the creation of the first lamp in 1984, the fish has become a recurrent motif in Gehry's work, as much for its "good design" as its iconographical and natural attributes. In 2012 Gehry decided to revisit his earlier ideas, and began working on an entirely new group of Fish Lamps. The resulting works, which will be divided between Gagosians Los Angeles and Paris, range in scale from life-size to out-size, and the use of ColorCore is bolder, incorporating larger and more jagged elements. Frank Gehry Fish Lamps will be on view until February 14, 2013 at Gagosian Gallery in Paris and Beverly Hills.

Ed Templeton Memory Foam @ Roberts & Tilton

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Roberts & Tilton presents an exhibition of recent photographs by artist and skateboarder Ed Templeton in his fifth exhibition with the gallery. Templeton has long mined the middle ground between the public and the private, delving unreservedly into the human situation, creating photographs that are at once heartbreaking and outrageous, comical and sinister, his images, a visual litmus test of American youth culture in all its twisted luminescence. Ed Templeton Memory Foam will be on view until February 16 at Roberts and Tilton, 5801 Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 

Jaimie Warren The Whoas of Female Tragedy II @ The Hole

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The Hole presents a new solo exhibition by Kansas City-based artist Jaimie Warren. In photographs that explore different female stereotypes from both art history and celebrity culture, distorted through the internet’s bizarre juxtapositions, disposable imagery and memes, this new body of work features the artist and her friends in roles as diverse as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Easy E, The Virgin Mary, Lana Del Rey or Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon. Jaimie Warren The Whoas of Female Tragedy II will be on view until February 2013, at The Hole, 312 Bowery St, New York, New York

All The Lovers A New Book by Rita Lino

All the Lovers is the first author book by Portuguese photographer and Pas Un Autre contributor Rita Lino. The book reveals her collection of memories, her romances, an archive of broken hearts and phantom-past-histories. Released in a limited series of two hundred numbered copies, All the Lovers includes the special participation of the canadian filmmaker and writer Mike Hoolboom whose contribution is  a fictional diary called Disappear. Buy the book here.

Maurizio Cattelan @ Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw

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After one year of silence and retirement from the art-world, Maurizio Cattelan and his works are once again arousing questions regarding life and death in a museum exhibition; the first exhibition after his well-known and successful Guggenheim retrospective. On display at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw is a selection of the artist's most significant works. In them, he poses questions as to the contemporary understanding of death, sacrifice, forgiveness, the genesis of evil in humankind, national identity, and historical memory. Maurizio Cattelan, Amen, will be on view at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw until February 24, 2013.

[MUST LISTEN] Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier

Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier is a musical fantasy born in a trailer by the woods of upstate New York during summer 2010 by the French based in Belgium visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson.  Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier’s new album Dark Morse, which is out February 1st by Shelter Press,is inspired by the short story The Angel Esmeralda written by Don Delillo.

Group Show No More Rock Stars @ Galerie Protégé

Nick Doyle, assistant to artist Tom Sachs, stands in front of his inclusion to No More Rock Stars, a multidisciplinary, group exhibition of work by artists Mia Berg, Nick Doyle, Laura Greig, Justine Hill, Henry G. Sanchez, and Bryan McGovern Wilson, studio assistants to some of New York City’s highly celebrated artists. Guest curator Robert Dimin has selected work by these stand-out emerging artists working with video, robotics, painting, photography, and sculpture. No More Rock Stars will be on view until January 31, 2013 at  Galerie Protégé, 197 Ninth Ave [Lower Level] New York, NY

Adriana Lara "NY - USA" @ Algus Greenspon Gallery

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Algus Greenspon presents NY - USA, the first New York solo exhibition by Adriana Lara. Lara’s work considers form and content in relation to their condition as language and its syntax. By presenting theories, symbols and words as structures of content these appear as meaning containers, sometimes begging for meaning (IT), sometimes avoiding it (text) and sometimes just playing with it (symbols). Either way, by shuffling signifiers and their context interpretation becomes form. NY - USA will be on view unti January 19, 2013 at Algus Greenspon, 71 Morton Street, New York

[FIRST LISTEN] Devendra Banhart Upcoming Album Mala

Listen below to the track Für Hildegard von Bingen off Devendra Banhart's upcoming Nonesuch records debut, Mala, on March 12, 2013. Mala, Banhart’s eighth studio album, was recorded in his then-home in Los Angeles. (He now resides in New York City.) The album is inspired by Banhart's fiancée, Ana Kras, a Serbian artist. Preorder the album here to receive the below song and a limited edition signed print. photograph by Mads Teglers

Henry Darger Landscapes @ Ricco/Maresca Gallery

Ricco/Maresca Gallery presents Henry Darger: Landscapes. This exhibition brings together highly celebrated landscapes by the self-taught artist Henry Darger (1892-1973). Darger's sumptuous and detailed landscapes are extensively varied - from bucolic and peaceful to dark and foreboding. When Henry Darger’s work is viewed from this singular vantage, new aesthetic, conceptual, and technical discoveries surface from the vast depths of the artist's complex and mysterious oeuvre. A devout Roman Catholic, Henry Darger worked as a janitor in Catholic hospitals by day and gave expression to his private, imaginary world by night from his small rented room on Chicago’s north side. Over a 54 year period, he created his magnum opus, a more than 15,000-page illustrated saga, The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal or the Glandelinian War Storm or the Glandico-Abbienian Wars as Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion,(commonly referred to as In the Realms of the Unreal). The 13 volume manuscript is reenacted in nearly 300 watercolors and collages depicting the "adventures" of the seven innocent Vivian Girls as they lead the rebellion against the evil, child-enslaving, adult Glandelinians. Henry Darger: Landscapes will be on view until February 2, 2013 at Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor NYC.