Rascal House @ Half Gallery

Half Gallery presents Rascal House, a collaborative project conceived by and including Blair Thurman along with John Armleder, Justin Adian, and Stรฉphane Kropf. The exhibition is the result of a strange confluence of memory, sensory perception, and association (both free and mediated): a 3-D painting installation-cum-diner booth born of historical, personal, aesthetic and ulterior connections.  Rascal House will be on view until February 4, 2015 at Half Gallery, 43 East 78th Street, New York. photographs by Paige Silveria

Learn to Read Art On View @ 80 WSE Gallery

80 WSE Gallery presents Learn to Read Art: A Surviving History of Printed Matter, an exhibition chronicling the thirty-nine year history of iconic artistโ€™s book organization Printed Matter, and subsequently the larger history of artistsโ€™ book production from the 1970โ€™s through the present. The exhibition will be on view until February 14, 2015 at 80 WSE Gallery. 

[TOUR] Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles

Located in the quaint and cozy back streets of Echo Park in Los Angeles, the Tom of Finland Foundation is not so much a gay mecca as it is a mecca of sexuality and a celebration of desire. The house โ€“ an early craftsman built in 1910 โ€“ was purchased by Durk Dehner in the late 70s. After Durk met Touko Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), the house became their sanctuary and the attic became Toukoโ€™s private studio. The house also became a safe haven for art with homosexual overtones when AIDS was painted as a gay disease. Today, the home is full of Tom of Finlandโ€™s distinctive black and white illustrations of buxom men with their muscles glistening and members bulging. Even though Tom of Finland died a little more than twenty years ago, his room is virtually the same โ€“ with his boots propped up and a smudge of ash still in the ashtray. We were fortunate to be given a tour of the foundation by its vice-president and curator S.R. Sharp who took us on an extensive journey that started with the entry drawing room and ended in the backyard โ€“ dubbed Pleasure Park โ€“ where palm trees swayed and Los Angeles sparkled under a crepuscular sky. Text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

A Visit to the Studio of James Georgopoulos

Upon first impression, the studio of James Georgopoulos โ€“ which is located in a nondescript and industrial section of El Segundo in Los Angeles โ€“ looks like a classic car garage. There are car doors, car hoods, a full size Mercury Comet, and a giant robotic arm that was used in 1980s American vehicle manufacturing โ€“ it in its raw form now, but it is being prepped for an upcoming show. Georgopoulos calls it โ€˜Zeus.' Georgopoulos โ€“ who is most well known for his โ€˜Guns of Cinemaโ€™ series โ€“ is branching out with more three-dimensional, sculptural work, like โ€˜Vacation,โ€™ which includes the disembodied cab of a truck with a video projection of a road stretching out behind it; Benny Goodman crackles on the radio. That piece is on view now at MAMA gallery in Los Angeles. Just recently, we were lucky enough to take a tour of James Georgopoulosโ€™ studio and he was kind enough to show us around. Text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Portrait in the Twenty-First Century @ Postmasters

Postmasters presents a show of portraits, real and imagined, that reflect our moment in time, the currently available technologies and the growing popular fascination with portraiture over social media platforms. Portrait in the Twenty-First Century will be on view until January 17, 2015 at Postmasters Gallery, 54 Franklin Street New York, NY

Friedrich Kunath 'Earth to Fuckface' @ White Cube

White Cube Hong Kong presents a new exhibition by Los Angeles based German artist Friedrich Kunath. Kunathโ€™s work, which covers a range of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and photography, presents an altered reality whose subject matter taps into universal and existential concerns. For this exhibition Kunath has pushed his personal vision even further, producing a series of new paintings that explores the limits and extent of an inner, psychic landscape whose kaleidoscopic and fragmented scenes seem to uncannily cohere. Earth to Fuckface will be on view until January 31 at White Cube Hong Kong, 50 Connaught Road Central

Spain & 42 St @ Foxy Production

SPAIN & 42 ST. is the title of a William S. Burroughs cut-up poem that transforms found fragments of text into a new whole. The works in the exhibition challenge the narratives of photography and fashion and parallels between them, just as Burroughs constantly challenged the structure of prose. They move beyond expectations of fashion or fine art: they are neither exclusively one nor the other. Each is a cut-up in itself and within the context of the exhibition, which features artists Darja Bajagiฤ‡, Jimmy DeSana, Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Mpagi, Sepuya Heji Shin, Laurie Simmons, and Deborah Turbeville. SPAIN & 42 ST. will be on view until January 31, 2015 @ Foxy Productions, 623 W. 23rd St. New York. 

Inaugural Group Exhibition @ MAMA Gallery In Los Angeles

Erection is a group exhibition to celebrate the launch of MAMA gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. Artists include Devendra Banhart, James Georgopoulos, Mattia Biagi, Amanda Charchian and More. Erection will be on view until January 21, 2014 at MAMA gallery, 1242 Palmetto Street Los Angeles. photographs by Douglas Neill for Autre