Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files @ Grimaldi Gavin

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files is a selection of photographs of Russian prisoners tattoos collected by Arkady Bronnikov between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s. A senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs for over thirty years, part of Bronnikov's duties involved visiting correctional institutions of the Ural and Siberia regions. It was here that he interviewed, gathered information and photographed convicts and their tattoos, building one of the most comprehensive archives of this phenomenon acquired by FUEL in 2013. Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files is on view until November 30, 2014, at Grimaldi Gavin, 27 Albamarle Street, London. 

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Deliriously Strange New Music Video

The newest single fromSinger's Grave A Sea of Tongues is molten, set to burn like a classic torch song should-- in your ears and forever! On "New Black Rich (Tusks)", Bonnie 'Prince' Billy collaborated with longtime songwriting partner Bryan Rich to create the ardent ballad. In the music video, Billy is featured with long ivory tusks as he dances and sings his way to a country speakeasy where he falls in love with a girl who has another strange animalistic characteristic.

Amazing Outside Artist Susan Te Kahurangi King @ Andrew Edlin

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Andrew Edlin Gallery presents debut solo gallery exhibition in the United States of the drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King, a self-taught artist from New Zealand. Around the age of four, for no apparent reason, Susan stopped speaking, but continued to express herself through prolific drawings and sketchbooks. In Kingโ€™s compositions, viewers will find peculiar perspectives, a collage-like, breaking-up of pictorial space and the subject matter she depicts in it, and a rollicking sense of the artistโ€™s powerful and expressive art-making line. Susan Te Kahurangi King's exhibiton โ€“ Drawings from Many Worldsโ€“ will be on view at the Andrew Edlin Gallery until December 20, 2014, 34 Tenth Avenue New York. 

ANDRO WEKUA at Sprueth Magers

ANDRO WEKUA at Sprueth Magers

For his first exhibition with Sprรผth Magers, Andro Wekua will transform the London gallery by installing a wall constructed of rough breeze blocks, partially obscuring the view into the space through the large bay window. While from the exterior the blocks will be untreated and exposed, the interior side of the wall will have a smooth white surface as if to disguise it from within, allowing the wall to blend seamlessly into the interior space. Within the gallery, Wekua will suspend from the ceiling a life-sized sculpture of an androgynous adolescent. Andro Wekua's Some Pheasants In Singularity will be on view at Sprรผth Magers until November 15, 7A Grafton Street London

Mira Dancy & Sarah Peters BODYRITE @ Asya Geisberg Gallery

Asya Geisberg Gallery presents Mira Dancy and Sarah Peters in "BODYRITE", an exhibition of paintings and sculpture. The duo's seemingly opposite oeuvres - acid-hued graphic paintings and terracotta miniatures - award us with the possibilities of reimagining the female body as a series of poses, affects, or mere outlines. BODYRITE will be on view until November 26 at Asya Geisberg Gallery 537B West 23rd Street

George Condo at Skarstedt Chelsea Opening This Week

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Skarstedt Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by George Condo titled Double Heads / Black Paintings / Abstractions, featuring large-scale paintings created in 2014 at his East Hampton studio.ย Double Heads / Black Paintings / Abstractions will be on view at Skarstedt Chelsea (550 W. 21st Street) from November 8 through December 20, 2014.