Fat White Family's Electronic Psych Project, The Moonlandingz, To Open for Iggy Pop At SXSW

The Moonlandingz (electronic psych rock project of Lias Saoudi and Saul Adamczewski from South London's Fat White Family and Sheffield's practical electronics wizards, Adrian Flanagan and Dean Honer of the Eccentronic Research Council) plan to open for Iggy Pop this week during SXSW. There will be two shows, one of which will be opening for Iggy Pop at The Moody Theatre (Austin City Limits), Wednesday March 16th (onstage at 7pm prompt). Click here to read our interview with Lias. 

"Don't Look Back: The 90s At MOCA" Group Show @ The Museum of Contemporary Art In Los Angeles

Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA comprises works from MOCA’s permanent collection that identify the recent decade’s key concerns and transformations, including many that have not been on view since originally shown and acquired. If the 1980s were shaped by the advent of identity politics, producing significant works that examined the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality, the 1990s both extended and challenged these ideas. Many artists turned to large-scale installations as a way to convey a complicated interface between the public and the museum, or to articulate the realms of overlap and dissonance in individual and public identities. The exhibition includes works by Catherine Opie, Cady Noland, Sarah Sze, and Paul McCarthy, among others, and explores the complexities of the period by dividing the presentation into six thematically grouped sections, titled: Installation; The Outmoded; Noir America; Place and Identity; Touch, Intimacy, and Queerness; and Space, Place, and Scale. Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA will be on view until July 11, 2016 at the Museum of Contemporary Art In Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

A Sneak Peek of Hauser Wirth and Schimmel's Inaugural Exhibition At Their Brand New Outpost In Los Angeles

Autre got a chance to check out a private preview of Hauser Wirth and Schimmel's brand new outpost in Los Angeles. The gallery currently presents ‘Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016,’ the inaugural exhibition at its new complex in the heart of the downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Through nearly 100 works made by 34 artists over the past seventy years, this ambitious undertaking traces ways in which women have changed the course of art by deftly transforming the language of sculpture since the postwar period. Works on view reveal their makers inventing radically new forms and processes that privilege solo studio practice, tactility, and the idiosyncrasies of the artist’s own hand. ‘Revolution in the Making’ explores multiple strains of artistic approaches, characterized by abstraction and repetition, that reject the precedent of a monolithic masterwork on a pedestal, employing such tactics as stacking, hanging, and intertwining, to create an intimate reciprocity between artist and viewer. ‘Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016' will be on view from March 13 to September 4, 2016 at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Pulverizing Rabbits: Read Our Interview With Artist Ariana Papademetropoulos Before Her Solo Show Opening This Weekend In Los Angeles →

After her solo show opening this weekend at MAMA gallery in Los Angeles, artist Ariana Papademetropoulos might make a film about killer mushrooms that murder young punk kids. This should give you an idea of her creativity – it's a boundless creativity that bursts with schizophrenic, hallucinatory imaginativeness. Her paintings literally split at the imaginary seams, tearing into new images – half hidden sadomasochistic scenes are obscured by foggy veils, and midcentury living rooms peel into wood paneled dens where shadows portend dark and dangerous things. Click here to read the full interview. 

Listen to the Exclusive Premiere of Up-And-Comer Harriet Brown's Cover of The Astronauts, Etc. Track "I Know"

Ahead of Harriet Brown and Astronauts, Etc.'s U.S. tour kick off show at Club Bahia tomorrow in Los Angeles, Autre is excited to exclusively premiere Harriet Brown's cover of the Astronauts, Etc. track "I Know" (listen below). Helmed by Oakland-based musician and songwriter Anthony Ferraro, Astronauts, etc was a bedroom project that blossomed and found him and his band playing locations such as Tokyo and Australia. Ferraro also found himself in the role as touring keyboardist for Toro y Moi and is close friends with singer Chazwick Bundik. The track covered by Harriet Brown, an up-and-coming Los Angeles based musical artist, can be found on Astronauts, Etc.'s latest album Mind Out Wandering on the Hit City U.S.A imprint. Harriet Brown, who describes his music as "romantic funk," will be supporting Astronauts, Etc. on a national tour. Click here to read a short convo between Harriet Brown and  Anthony Ferraro.  


Go See Christopher Richmond's "Double Fantasy" @ Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles

Moskowitz Bayse presents Double Fantasy, the first major solo exhibition in the United States of works by Los Angeles-based artist Christopher Richmond. Double Fantasy features two new ambitious 16mm film and video works by the artist, and marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Baffling and beautiful, Christopher Richmond makes films, videos, and photographs that challenge traditional story-telling conventions. Fixed meaning is subsumed in an animating tide of sound and light. By disrupting chronology, plot, and standard character development, Richmond invites the viewer to actively participate in the creation of meaning—to abandon the role of passive onlooker and become an active collaborator. Thematically, Richmond’s work explores the human condition, and his unconventional approach to narrative affords a range of alternate impressions. Christopher Richmond's "Double Fantasy" will be on view until April 23, 2016 at Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles. 

Enshrining The Souvenirs: Chibi Cherry's Performance At The Spring/Break Art Fair

For her participation in the Spring Break Art Fair, March 1st Chibi Cherry held a ritual of enshrining the "performance souvenirs" she had for sale in the show. Her performers included: Claire Christerson - Face Paint Jo Rosenthal - Chime Xylophone Kiki Kudo - Flute Ross Menuez - Synth Sequencer Olimpia Dior - Lead Vocal Rowan Oliver - Supporting Vocal Footage by Jack Shannon