Ghost Of A Dream "A Devil To Pay" @ CES Gallery In Los Angeles

CES Gallery presents A Devil To Pay, the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles by artist duo Ghost of a Dream. Considering desires, Ghost of a Dream collects ephemera discarded in the pursuit of dreams and reassembles this matter into hypnotic visions of cultural identity. Constructing work from materials such as lottery tickets, trophies, travel posters, romance novels, art fair booths, and art shipping crates, Ghost of a Dream transforms these items, supposedly drained of their use-value, into sculpture, video, and two-dimensional meditations on material and symbolic value. Ghost Of A Dream "A Devil To Pay" will be on view until March 5, 2017 @ CES Gallery in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Read Our Interview Of Dinos Chapman, One Half Of The Chapman Brothers, Before Their Exhibition At UTA Artist Space →

There couldn’t be a better time for Jake and Dinos Chapman’s new exhibition, To Live And Think Like Pigs, on view now at the UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles. That it opened on the same day as Donald Trump’s wildly xenophobic and damaging executive order banning Muslims from “terror prone” countries is compelling, but perhaps not coincidental. When the wickedness of the world reveals its evident truths, Jake and Dinos remind us that the horror, panic and depravity isn’t just a brand of reality they have invented to shock us – it is actually reality. We are eating in it, fucking in it and living in it. Swastikas, Ku Klux Klan iconography, rainbows, happy faces and the golden arches of the McDonald’s logo all exist on the same killing field. Click here to read more. 

The Imaginary World of Diego Giacometti @ Sotheby's Paris Galerie Charpentier

Sotheby’s Paris presents The Imaginary World of Diego Giacometti, an exceptional exhibition dedicated to his work. For one week, the Galerie Charpentier will showcase more than 60 works generously loaned by private collectors who were close to the artist, as well as memorabilia and some of the tools he used to create his sculptures. The exhibition will give an overview of the sculptor's singular creative talent, imbued with his poetic imagination. In the 1960s, he began designing chairs, tables, consoles and lamps where animals including frogs, mice, deer, foxes, dogs, cats and ostriches scurry, gambol and observe each other. The event will bring the artist's bestiary to life in Paris during an exhibition that includes previously unseen pieces, now unveiled to the public for the first time. The Imaginary World Of Diego Giacometti will be on view until January 31, 2017 at Galerie Charpentier, 76, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré

Highlights From Art Los Angeles Contemporary @ The Barker Hangar In Los Angeles

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, now in its eighth year, is the International Contemporary Art fair of the West Coast The fair presents top established and emerging galleries from around the world, with a strong focus on Los Angeles galleries. Participants present some of the most dynamic recent works from their roster of represented artists, offering an informed cross section of what is happening now in contemporary art making. Art Los Angeles Contemporary will be on view from January 26 to January 29, 2017 at The Barker Hangar at The Santa Monica Airport. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

A Preview Of "Fast Forward: Painting From The 1980s" Opening At The Whitney Museum In New York

Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s presents a focused look at painting from this decade with works drawn entirely from the Museum’s collection. In the 1980s, painting recaptured the imagination of the contemporary art world against a backdrop of expansive change. An unprecedented number of galleries appeared on the scene, particularly in downtown New York. Groundbreaking exhibitions—that blurred distinctions between high and low art—were presented at alternative and artist-run spaces. New mediums, including video and installation art, were on the rise. Yet despite the growing popularity of photography and video, many artists actively embraced painting, freely exploring its bold physicality and unique capacity for expression and innovation. Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s will be on view from January 27 to May 14 at The Whitney Museum in New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Zana Bayne Announces Los Angeles Pop Up Shop Featuring The "Wild Rose" Collection Premiere

This weekend, Zana Bayne will be holding court in Downtown Los Angeles for a three day pop up shop to premiere a new collection. Zana Bayne is a NYC-based "post-fetish" leather goods brand by creative team Zana Bayne and Todd Pendu founded by Bayne in 2010. Their work is known for its focus on quality craftsmanship and for inventive accessories designed to layer over any wardrobe. The pop up shop will be held daily from January 27 to January 29 from 11am to 7pm at 927 S. Sante Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, CA