Cameron Gray: GYMNASTY

Cameron Gray and Mike Weiss Gallery present GYMNASTY, an equal opportunity exhibition filled with multisensory integration experiences, joyous celebration, spiritual reflection, contemporary contemplations of Plato’s Cave, and catharctic ectoplasmic growth. Cameron Gray: GYMNASTY will be on view from October 30 to January 3, 2015. 

Chris Ofili: Night and Day

Occupying the New Museum’s three main galleries, “Chris Ofili: Night and Day” will span the artist’s influential career, encompassing his paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Over the past two decades, Ofili has become identified with vibrant, meticulously executed, elaborate artworks that meld figuration, abstraction, and decoration. Chris Ofili: Night and Day will be on view from October 29 to January 25, 2015, at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York. 

PICASSO & THE CAMERA @ Gagosian

Gagosian Gallery, in partnership with Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, presents “Picasso and the Camera,” the fifth in a series of major Picasso surveys. Curated by Picasso biographer John Richardson, assisted by Gagosian directors Valentina Castellani and Michael Cary, the exhibition explores how Picasso used photography not only as a source of inspiration, but as an integral part of his studio practice. Picasso and the Camera will be on view from October 28 to January 3, 2015 at Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street, New York

Sex In The 70s: Go See Fredrica Duke's New Play In Los Angeles

This is a must see and rare experience. Playwright Fredrica Duke shares 24 outrageous, irreverent and laugh-out-loud stories that propel the audience back in time to the sexual revolution. From her public lawn schtup, to being totally desensitized by the overuse of her Hitachi vibrator. This one-woman show recalls an era when anything and everything was possible. In My Own X-Rated Words will run from November 6 to December 18, 2014 at the Lounge Theater in Los Angeles, 6201 Santa Monica Blvd. You can buy tickets here. 

[MUSIC] Ariel Pink New Album Pom Pom Out In November

Spanning 17 tracks and 69 minutes, pom pom is unfiltered Ariel Pink, a pied piper of the absurd, with infectious tales of romance, murder, frog princes and Jell-O. With the Los Angeles native striking it out alone and returning to the solo moniker he has adopted for well over a decade, pom pom could very well be Ariel Pink's magnum opus. pom pom is Ariel Pink's third studio album for 4AD.

Listen: Ariel Pink "Black Ballerina"

Dreams of Arthur and Gilbert

Abbey Meaker’s soft pastel-like photographs are composed of classical portraits of nuns that the artist culled while researching the Catholic orphanage where her family members, Arthur and Gilbert, resided in the 1930s. Meaker has projected, recomposed, blurred, and rephotographed these traditional portraits to reappropriate ideas regarding the isolated/insulated lives of religious communities of women. The exhibition will include photographs and projections. Dreams of Arthur and Gilbertwill be shown at the Living/Learning Gallery, University of Vermont from September 2 - September 26, with an opening reception beginning at 5:30pm on Thursday, September 4.  

Richard Phillips at Dallas Contemporary

In his first US solo museum exhibition – Negation of the Universe – Richard Phillips brings his exploration of contemporary culture to Dallas. His strikingly distinctive paintings address the complex web of pop themes in our media-saturated world – sexuality, politics, power and death among them. For Phillips, critique is as much an intrinsic material in the conception and staging of his work as the materials of their making. His conflating of subject and genre continues to provide challenging comment on the condition and reach of contemporary art. Negation of the Universewill be on view August 10, 2014 at Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass Street Dallas Texas

Jews and Midcentury Modernism

Princess Phone, by Henry Dreyfuss

Both native-born artists and émigrés, most of whom made indelible contributions to American visual culture after fleeing Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the 1930s, will be highlighted. The exhibition will underscore that these designers, individually talented as they were, did not work in isolation, and that their impact on American architecture and design was rooted in the networks they forged, influential schools and artist colonies they helped found, museum initiatives they shaped, and corporations they modernized with new products, buildings, and advertising campaigns. Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism will be on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum from April 24 to October 16, 2014, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA.