Read Our Interview With the Legendary Genesis Breyer P'Orridge →

After Genesis Breyer P’Orridge’s legendary “Prostitution” exhibition at the ICA in London – which included pornographic collages, bloody tampons, and prostitutes, transvestites, hustlers and punks intermingling with the audiences – P’Orridge was deemed a “wrecker of civilization” by House of Commons representative Nicholas Fairbairn. Coincidentally, at the same time that a debate was stirring in the Parliament and the House about the antics of P’Orridge and their neo-Dadaist art collective COUM Transmissions, they were in Kathmandu feeding and providing shelter for lepers, beggars and refugees at their own expense. Wrecker or healer – you decide. This weekend Genesis will be having a “Pandrogaragenous Avant-yard Sale” and blessing purchased items at the Jackie Klempay Gallery in Brooklyn. Autre was lucky enough to have a chat with Genesis before the opening to discuss rebellion, the importance of the subculture and more. Read the interview here. 

Michael Heizer 'Altars' @ Gagosian Gallery in New York

Gagosian presents the work of legendary sculptor Michael Heizer. Heizer's first exhibition with the gallery comprises rarely or never-before-seen early paintings, the Altar series of new monumental steel sculptures, and negative wall sculptures featuring metamorphic and igneous rocks. Working largely outside the confines of gallery and museum, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. In the late 1960s, he relocated to New York, while continuing to travel and live in the open terrain of the American West, where he has since created awe-inspiring land artworks. Michael Heizer 'Altars' will be on view until July 9, 2015 at Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street, New York. photographs by Eric Minh Swenson

Daniel Arsham, Juliette Lewis, Waris Ahluwalia, and Mike Figgis at the IST Festival in Istanbul

Daniel Arsham, Juliette Lewis, Waris Ahluwalia, and Mike Figgis at the 5th edition of the IST Festival in Istanbul - curated and co-founded by Istanbul 74' - which explored realist in art and culture. Daniel Arsham premiered his film Future Relic 03 starring Juliette Lewis. photograph by Will Ragozzino 

Grounders Premier Hypnotically Rotoscoped Music Video for Their Track "Secret Friend"

"Secret Friend," the opening track on Grounders' debut self-titled LP, is a nostalgic and vibrant pop song with a psychedelic glisten. So it's only fitting that its music video, animated by band member Daniel Busheikin, is equally colorful and kaleidoscopic. The visuals were digitally rotoscoped - an antiquated animation technique that involves tracing and painting over live-action footage, frame-by-frame. The music video captures familiar movements and moments through thousands of individually-made frames, presenting a hallucinatory mirror of our daily life.

Photographer Eliot Lee Hazel At The Opening of 'Disconnection,' A Group Show Curated by Justin Tyler Close at Wilding Cran Gallery In Los Angeles

Wilding Cran Gallery Unit B is pleased to present "Disconnection," a group show curated by Justin Tyler Close of Lab Magazine, featuring new work by Eliot Lee Hazel, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Nouel Riel, Logan White, Darian Zahedi, and Amanda Charchian in collaboration with Eli Craven. "Disconnection" explores ideas about living in today's world where everyone is more connected than ever and how that has led to a loss of mystery and suspense within relationships because of the constant need for immediacy. Disconnection will be on view until June 13, 2015, at Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles. 

Gillian Laub 'Southern Rites' @ Benrubi Gallery in New York

Benrubi Gallery, in collaboration with the International Center of Photography, presents "Southern Rites," the new exhibition from award-winning photographer Gillian Laub, whose previous exhibition at the gallery, "Common Ground," dealt with the relationship between Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians. With "Southern Rites," she again takes on a story steeped in generations-long tensions, and tells it with power, sensitivity and enduring poignancy. "Southern Rites" is a provocative twelve-year visual study of one community’s struggle to confront longstanding issues of race and equality. In 2002, Laub was invited to Mt. Vernon, Georgia, to photograph its segregated homecoming celebrations. She kept returning to the community and in 2009, The New York Times Magazine published a photo-essay by Laub titled, “A Prom Divided,” which documented Georgia’s Montgomery County High School’s racially segregated prom rituals. Laub’s photographs ignited a firestorm of national outrage that, remarkably, led the community to finally integrate the proms. Laub continued to travel to Mt. Vernon to document the aftermath, which was welcomed in some circles and decried in others. In 2011, amid newfound hope, the murder of a young black man (portrayed in Laub’s earlier prom series) by an older white town resident reopened old wounds. Through her intimate portraits, first-hand testimony, and video installation, Laub reveals in vivid color the horror and humanity of these complex, intertwined narratives. Southern Rites will be on view until June 27, 2015 at Benrubi Gallery, 521 West 26th Street, New York. You can also purchase a monograph (Damiani) of the work here. 

Life's A Beach: 5 Must See Art Shows On View Now in the Hamptons

1. Dan Flavin's early work - a series called Icons - is on view at Dia's Dan Flavin Art Institute 2.  Matthew King: This Side Down is on view at the rare art book shop Harper's Books 3. Cole Sternberg's ARTed House is a site to see on David's Lane in East Hampton 4. Womanhouse is a powerhouse group exhibition featuring twenty-one female artists - from Orly Genger to Agathe Snow on view at Eric Firestone Gallery 5. Artist Jen Stark paints the Surf Lodge with dripping psychedelic colors. 

A Sad Day for Photography, Mary Ellen Mark Dies At 75

Her photography addressed such social issues as homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution. She worked primarily in black and white. She described her approach to her subjects: "I’ve always felt that children and teenagers are not "children," they’re small people. I look at them as little people and I either like them or I don’t like them. I also have an obsession with mental illness. And strange people who are outside the borders of society." Mark also said, "I’d rather pull up things from another culture that are universal, that we can all relate to….There are prostitutes all over the world. I try to show their way of life…" Mary Ellen Mark - March 20, 1940 - May 25, 2015

Ragnar Kjartansson’s S.S. Hangover with a Brass Sextet on Board Loops Around the Harlem Meer In Central Park

Icelandic conceptual artist Ragnar Kjartansson's incredible performance sculpture is currently making scheduled loops around the Harlem Meer in Central Park. The S.S. Hangover, a haphazard hybrid of Greek, Icelandic and Venetian ship design, was originally a 1934 wooden fishing boat from Reykjavík that the artist transformed into a remake of a theatrical boat that appeared on dry land in a swanky party scene in the film Remember Last Night? (1935). Sailing under the flag of a winged fat Pegasus–one that Kjartansson regards as a symbol for the artist struggling to reach sublime heights. Instrumentals are provided by the Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble and led by conductor Andrew Cyr. You can catch the S.S. Hangover on Fridays and Saturdays through June 20, 2015 on the East side of the park near Lennox Avenue in New York.

Brian Kokoska's Collaborative Show With Chloe Seibert Is A Pepto-Bismol Shade of Pink and Full of Strange Artifacts

Johannes Vogt Gallery presents Night Cage, a two-person exhibition by Brian Kokoska and Chloe Seibert. Kokoska has altered the gallery space entirely in a Peto-Bismol shade of baby pink. Brian Kokoska's paintings explore sensibilities of a post-human "face" in which each composition is built from a series of gestures and recognizable iconography and symbols. His new monochromatic sculptures are built up from various acquired objects including snakes, Droopy the dog (an anthropomorphic cartoon dog introduced in 1943), rare collectible teddy bears, blankets, caskets and furniture. Each sculpture is intentionally altered and rearranged to induce a sort of hyper sentimentality or overwhelming sadness. Additionally, Kokoska is exhibiting a new work that is a selection from his collection of acquired prison drawings. Their intimate scale, cute subject matter and loving text is both personal to the artists childhood and to his current practice. Chloe Seibert uses scale and expression to evoke psychological and physical responses. In this selection of her work, gestural and aggressive mark making creates vague facial representations out of pedestrian materials and a bland palette. The works are decisively haphazard and familiarly disgruntled. She will be presenting two wall sculptures and a large head statue. Night Cage will be on view until June 20, 2015 at Johannes Vogt Gallery, 526 W 26th St., New York

Max Barrie Talks About The Vagina of His Dreams In the Latest Installment of A Trendy Tragedy

"...Women in the past, they usually reacted like a dog ate their homework. Of course, I'm referring to the ladies that weren't handing me an invoice after I ejaculated..." Max Barrie talks about the "vagina of his dreams," being in the friend zone and the ultimate torment of both rejection and self realization in the latest installment of his non-fiction short story series A Trendy Tragedy. Read the store here. 

Cole Sternberg's ARTed House Is On View Now in the Hamptons

Memorial weekend is always a memorable experience in the Hamptons. A must see this weekend, in this rarefied atmosphere, is artist Cole's Sternberg's ARTed House, which is presented by Los Angeles based MAMA gallery. Entitled "A Moment Near the Sea," Cole Sternberg has transformed a classic property into a giant canvas with installation based works, collages on wood, sculpture and more that spill out from the house and into the backyard. Cole Sternberg's ARTed House opens today and runs until June 7th, Davids Lane East Hampton, NY

Crackle & Drag T.R. Ericsson's First Solo Museum Exhibition Opens This Weekend At The Cleveland Museum Of Art

T.R. Ericsson employs photo-based work, sculptural objects, and cinema to create installations that provide a ruthlessly honest, yet tender portrait of his mother, who committed suicide at age 57, and of the triangulated relationships between three generations within one Northeastern Ohio family. Ericsson is involved in an ongoing investigation and reinterpretation of a deteriorating archive of family artifacts, documents, writings, and photographs. Crackle & Drag makes a personal struggle public, coming to terms with the archive’s power to determine the past and the future, even as it vanishes in time. The exhibition’s title is taken from the final line of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Edge”: “Staring from her hood of bone./She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.” T.R. Ericsson's Crackle & Drag will be on view from May 23 to August 23, 2015 at the Cleveland Museum Of Art. After that, you can catch his show All My Love, Always, No Matter What, which will be on view from September 10 to October 8, 2015 at Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels. 

Selfie-Stick Aerobics, Crystal Healing, Laughter Therapy and Hacked Kindles: Self Publish Be Happy Takes Over The Tate Modern In London

The madcap geniuses at Self Publish, Be Happy will be taking over the Tate Modern this weekend. A project in the Turbine Hall celebrates the fifth birthday of Self Publish, Be Happy (SBPH) this year for the first Offprint London fair, which coincides with Photo London. By using books to vitalize public interaction, the SPBH Project Space will host numerous events involving exciting contemporary photographers. Visitors can create their own temporary tattoo in photographer Thomas Mailaender’s ‘Fun Tattoo Parlor’. After selecting a photo from the artist’s weird collection of internet images, they can wear it - becoming part of a mobile exhibition. Artist Antony Cairns will be hacking old Kindles bought on eBay and making them into photobooks. Arvida Byström and Maja Malou Lyse will lead a selfie-stick aerobics class, while Japanese artists Daisuke Yokota and Hiroshi Takizawah will print a book using an experimental process that uses wax, cement and iron powder. There will also be some cathartic booksmoking by Melinda Gib- son, crystal healing sessions by Johan Rosenmunthe and laughter therapy by Dominic Hawgood. Finally, SPBH features workshops on risographs and zine-making with Maya Rochat and Col~Late. Offprint London opens tonight at the Tate Modern in London and runs until May 25, 2015. You can also view the events live on the SPBH Youtube Channel.   

Devendra Banhart and Adam Tullie Team Up for a Collaborative Book of Drawings entitled "Unburdened by Meaning"

"Unburdened By Meaning" is a split effort between Adam Tullie and Devendra Banhart which documents selections of work created over one week, while the artists worked in parallel in Devendra's New York drawing studio. Tullie and Banhart, who are now based in Los Angeles, have known each other for over 13 years, so it only makes sense that they would collaborate together in this capacity. As the title suggests, the collection of drawings found in this book aren't held to any one concept or idea - it is simply a freewheeling, minimalistic exploration of the two artist's unique, but synergistic styles. The book also includes two essays - one by New York based artist and writer Ross Simonini, and the other by San Francisco based writer and artist Chris Fallon. The book is available now from Canadian based publishing house Anteism in a limited edition of 200 - it is also signed and numbered by the artists. 

Urs Fischer Large Scale Sculpture "Big Clay #4" Outside of the Seagram Building

Gagosian Gallery presents Urs Fischer's monumental sculpture Big Clay #4 on view at Seagram Plaza until September 1, 2015. .Fischer's work is the result of an intimate gesture enlarged to epic proportions. The curving, towering stack derives from a scrap of clay that has been squeezed; scanned and enlarged digitally; then cast in aluminum as a 42 1/2-foot-tall sculpture. The silver surface reveals all of the incidental nuances of the original form, including Fischer's fingerprints, which are preserved as striated curves.

[DOCUMENTARY] Watch Larry Clark Talk About His 1995 Cinematic Debut "Kids" To Celebrate the Film’s 20th Anniversary

"Jesus Christ, what happened," the last lines of the movie summed up an entire decade of existential sloth and societal angst. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Larry Clark’s debut film, KIDS, the portrayal of NYC youth’s escapades in the early 90’s. Some were offended by the raw and anarchic world Larry Clark documented, for those that weren’t, the film became an important document of the time, place and culture. Through photographing skaters in NYC, Larry Clark came to meet the film’s writer, Harmony Korine and star, Leo Fitzpatrick. The rest of the cast was pieced together with a variety of downtown New York characters including original Supreme team riders Justin Pierce and Harold Hunter. It is a testament to KIDS cultural impact that it resonates today just as much as it did in 1995. To commemorate the 20th anniversary, Supreme releases a collection of items featuring stills from the iconic film KIDS. Also, a short documentary by William Strobeck. Watch the documentary above. The capsule collection will be released today on the Supreme New York website. 

William Pope.L: Trinket at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

William Pope.L is perhaps best known for his extreme performative works, like the "The Great White Way," which involved him crawling 22 miles through the streets of New York in a superman costume with a skateboard strapped to his back - it took a span of five years to complete. In his new exhibition at the MoCA in Los Angeles, entitled "Trinket," Pope.L presents a number of installation works - including a giant American flag, which is being blown by four giant fans. Over the course of the exhibition, the flag will eventually unravel and disintegrate, thus continuing the artist's philosophy of the American identity in a contemporary context, especially as a black man. William Pope.L: Trinket will be on view until June 28, 2015, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

Yayoi Kusama 'Give Me Love' On View Now At David Zwirner Gallery In New York

David Zwirner presents "Give Me Love," the gallery’s second exhibition with Yayoi Kusama in New York. On view in two spaces will be new paintings from the celebrated "My Eternal Soul" series and new polka-dotted pumpkin sculptures. The exhibition also marks the United States debut of "The Obliteration Room," an all-white, domestic interior that over the course of the show is covered by dots of varying sizes and colors. In a departure from earlier iterations of the work, which have involved one or several rooms, the present installation is built like a typical, prefabricated American suburban house. As visitors are handed a set of stickers and step inside, they enter a completely white residential setting where otherwise familiar objects such as a kitchen counter, couch, and bookshelves are all painted the same shade. Gradually transforming the space as a result of the interaction, the accumulation of the bright dots ultimately changes the interior until it is eradicated into a blur of colors. A sense of depth and volume disappears as individual pieces of furniture, floors, and walls blend together. Yayoi Kusama 'Give Me Love' will be on view until June 13, 2015 at David Zwirner, 519 & 525 West 19th Street, New York