Release Party For Autre Lettres Volume One At The Standard Hotel In Los Angeles With A Special Performance by Sugarcube

Autre magazine celebrates the release of Autre Lettres Volume One during AWP at the Standard Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles with a special performance by Sugarcube. photographs by Douglas Neill and Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Hanna Liden "No Weather Data Available" @ 56 Henry Gallery In New York

In the main gallery Liden presents three cast-concrete sculptures, all molded from crook-handle umbrellas. Rendered in battleship grey, deep charcoal, and cautionary orange, the umbrella sculptures are suspended at inconsistent heights from the gallery ceiling. Two umbrellas dangle from welded industrial chain, and a third hangs from a noose looped around its handle. Strung up by their necks, the casts begin to resemble bodies hanged from an executioner’s scaffold. Hanna Liden "No Weather Data Available" will be on view until May 1, 2016 at 56 Henry Gallery in New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Last Chance to Catch Christian Eckhart "Post-Post" @ Wilding Cran Gallery In Los Angeles

Wilding Cran Gallery is presents Post-Post, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed, Houston based artist Christian Eckart. Featuring new works, the exhibition explores Eckart’s philosophical inquiry and interrogation of the concept of “Art” articulated in the form of painting/sculpture hybrids. A highlight of the exhibition is The Absurd Vehicle, which was produced over a five year period from 2006-2011. Considered to be one of Eckart’s seminal and summary objects, he regards The Absurd Vehicle as a painting with an identity crisis, extending from the tradition of the Northern Romantic Sublime. He sees the work as a painting that decided to become a sculpture, then a hot-rod, then a space vehicle, then a time machine and finally resolving itself, seemingly, as an oracle. The title, The Absurd Vehicle, references the motivations, aspirations and perhaps implausibility for paintings to be used as mechanisms of and for transcendence. Christian Eckhart "Post-Post" will be on view until April 2, 2016 at Wilding Cran Gallery, 939 South Santa Fe Avenue Los Angeles CA

A Samurai of The Sea: Read Our Interview With Nolan Hall On Surf Culture, Deadbeat Photographers Club And His Upcoming Solo Exhibition →

Surf culture has a certain spiritual mysticism that extends beyond the sport and enters the realm of the samurai. There are codes, there are secrets and there are veils split by the curling lip of the tide. Surfers are like samurai warriors of the sea. Growing up in Capistrano Beach, the waves beckoned a young Nolan Hall and so did the clandestine beaches, and secret surf locales and the legends of the sport. And since, surf culture has become a way of life for Hall; not only as a surfer, but also a documentarian. His photographs have taken him on wild adventures – a selection of those images will be shown at his solo exhibition, entitled Peregrines, opening this weekend at Paul Loya Gallery. Click here to read the interview. 

Watch The Online Premiere Of "Eat Me" A Gore Film By Remy Bennett and Anna del Gaizo

Eat Me is a short film by Remy (yes, granddaughter of Tony) Bennett and Broadly writer Anna del Gaizo as part of their recent installation at the SPRING/BREAK art show.  The film and subsequent installation are not without themes: desensitization, violence, anonymity, and social isolation among them. But Bennett, who gained indie film notoriety for her Lynchian romance ‘Buttercup Bill’ has been a horror obsessive her entire life, and really just wanted to make a gruesome and gory film. She found her story when she learned of her high school friend del Gaizo’s real life exploits in being a web cam girl. Del Gaizo gets to fictionalize her own experience in her performance in the film, and Bennett gets to create the horror scenario that she has dreamed of since childhood. Click here to read more. 

Vhils "Debris" Neon Installation At Pier 4 In Hong Kong Presented by HOCA

Presented by HOCA, “Debris”, the first solo exhibition of celebrated Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto AKA Vhils in Hong Kong is a multi-site initiative that will include an intervention on one of the city’s iconic trams  and an exhibition at Pier 4 (open between 22 March– 4 April 2016), encouraging visitors to explore the city and reflect on the nature of the urban environment through the lens of the artist. The Pier 4 Solo Exhibition will be open until April 4. 

Last Week To Check Out Dash Snow's Retrospective Show Freeze Means Run At The Brant Foundation in Connecticut

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center presents Freeze Means Run, the first US solo exhibition of work by Dash Snow since 2006. Freeze Means Run will include an expansive amount of artwork across disparate media: over 100 Polaroid photographs (many on view publicly for the first time); sculpture; installation; film; and collage, including the iconic 45-part work, Fuck the Police (2005). Freeze Means Run will be on view until April 1, 2016 at the The Brant Foundation. photographs by Christopher Burke

Watch The Premiere of Girlfriend Of The Year's Short Music Film Ahead of Her Forthcoming Shows as Special Guest to Animal Collective in Europe

It's a little like Lost Highway for the Millennial generation – GFOTY, otherwise known as Girlfriend of The Year, has a released a surprise album, short film and online network ahead of the British cult pop star's upcoming April tour with Animal Collective. She has also released a four track EP called VIPOTY. The album, released on the PC record label, is the first full release in two years. The short film can be described in a simple sentence: "Watch and learn as an obsessive loser called Polly tries to steal GFOTY’s hunky boyfriend Chad, and pays the price when she downs her final GFOTYBUCKS Chocolate Cream Frappuccino." Click here for GFOTY tour dates and here to download the album. 

Samara Golden "A Trap In Soft Division" @ The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco

YBCA presents a brand new commission by Los Angeles based artist Samara Golden. Known for creating dreamlike, uncanny, and immersive environments, Golden attempts to stage the sixth dimension–a place where the future, present, and past exist simultaneously. Golden’s installations use mirrors, video, sound, and handmade sculptures to create a hypnotic, hallucinatory space that draws the viewer in completely. This exhibition is Golden’s largest installation to date and will take over a substantial gallery at YBCA. A Trap In Soft Division will be on view until May 16, 2016 at YBCA in San Francisco. Photographs by Bradley Golden.