The Survival Laboratories "Inconsiderate Fantasies of Negative Acceleration Characterized by Sacrifices of a Non-Consensual Nature" @ Marlborough Contemporary in New York

"Inconsiderate Fantasies of Negative Acceleration Characterized by Sacrifices of a Non-Consensual Nature" is on show at the Marlborough Contemporary gallery in New York from January 6th to February 10th. 545 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Read Our Interview Of Artforum's Current Cover Artist Kia LaBeija →

LaBeija offers us a keyhole through which to peer into some of her most tender and fragile momentsβ€”yet she peers right back, watching us watching her. Her gaze is direct and unflinching, often laced with grief, or defiance, or whatever emotion might have been coursing through her body at the particular moment when the shutter clickedβ€”at once reminding us of the ultimate artifice of posed portraiture and stating, simply, Here I am. Click here to read more. 

Watch The Premiere Of Our Mini-Documentary Featuring Peter Shire

Thanks to our friends at Chandelier Creative, we spent a lovely day capturing the iconic Peter Shire at his studio in Echo Park with director Johnny Le. Watch the documentary for a how-to tutorial on being Peter Shire, which includes knowing a good salad joke, meeting Ettore Sottsass, and owning a lot of hats. To celebrate the premiere we invited some of our favorite people in Los Angeles to the gorgeous Flamingo Estate for a Memphis Milano Bruncheon, which included a special menu created by Shire himself and chef Steven Segar, with items like Habanero pickled beet lollipops and Bel Air bellinis (peach vinegar, prosecco, vodka, and [of course] ping-pong balls). Read more about our collaboration here. 

Carolee Schneemann "Kinetic Painting" @ MoMA PS1 in New York

MoMA PS1 presents the first comprehensive retrospective of Carolee Schneemann, spanning the artist’s prolific six-decade career. As one of the most influential artists of the second part of the 20th century, Schneemann’s pioneering investigations into subjectivity, the social construction of the female body, and the cultural biases of art history have had significant influence on subsequent generations of artists. Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting begins with rarely seen examples of the artist’s early paintings of the 1950s and their evolution into assemblages made in the 1960s, which integrated objects, mechanical elements, and modes of deconstruction. In the late 1960s Schneemann began positioning her own body within her work, performing the roles of β€œboth image and image-maker.” As a central protagonist of the New York downtown avant-garde community, she explored hybrid artistic forms culminating in experimental theater events. The exhibition considers Schneemann’s oeuvre within the context of painting by tracing the developments that led to her groundbreaking innovations in performance, film, and installation in the 1970s, as well as her increasingly spatialized multimedia installations from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Carolee Schneemann "Kinetic Painting" will be on view until March 11, 2018 at MoMA PS1 in New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Autre Rewind: Read Our Interview Of The Haas Brothers On The Occasion Of Their Collaboration With Barneys New York

In partnership with creative director Matthew Mazzucca and Barneys’ team, the Haas Brothers created an imaginative universe that offers an interpretation of the Earth through the ages, with some of the Haas’ recurring characters coexisting across eras ranging from the planet’s beginning to the far distant future. Through animation and sculpture, four of these epochs will be depicted in Barneys’ Madison Avenue window displays, illustrating four phases of time: Primordial, Utopia, Millennium, and a vision of the future that’s been titled Mushroom Singularity. Each will see appearances by Haas characters like Rainbow Bagginsβ€”a rainbow-striped zebraβ€”Rhinona Wyder, and more. The Madison Avenue windows, as well as interpretations at flagship locations across the country. Click here to read our 2015 interview of the Haas Brothers.

Jim Shaw Exhibition @ Metro Pictures in New York

Jim Shaw's current exhibition at Metro Pictures contextualizes the personal with layers hyper-mediated symbology drawn from mythological and historical narratives. The paintings, sculpture, and video in this exhibition both interpret and allude to ancient legends like the rape of Europa and the biblical prophecies of the Old Testament, often rendering them beyond immediat recognition. Jim Shaw's exhibition will be on view until December 22nd, 2017 at Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Gilbert & George "THE BEARD PICTURES" @ Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York

The Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents THE BEARD PICTURES, a collection of pictures commemorating the 50th anniversary of Gilbert & George. The artists present themselves as two haunting figures, using their amorphous beards as a site for political and cultural critique. Scattered with fences and flowers, this series of self-portraits pieces together a narrative about an ever-changing urban landscape its constant turmoil. The 35 images that make up THE BEARD PICTURES will be on view at Lehmann Maupin’s Chelsea and downtown Manhattan locations until December 22nd. photographs by Adam Lehrer

Watch The Premiere Of The Music Video For 4thSex's Track "Downtown L.A. (DTLA)"

4THSEX is the brainchild of French, LA-based producer, Jean Marc Viraud. For a decade, the multifaceted artist has been working intensively and actively in the Los Angeles underground creative scene. 4THSEX pays homage to the way that adolescent minds reinvent themselves and the world. Playing with themes based off first-hand experiences in rave, bass, gabber, banlieues (French suburbs), subcultures of Europe, 4THSEX presents alternatives to overthought insincere cultural tourism in music. The 4THSEX sound is as futuristic as it is vintage, its aesthetics give form and color to all the contradictions and ambiguities of the underground and its ever evolving identity. Click here purchase 4thSex's new EP Youth Detention. 

Read Our Interview Of Chris Bordenave Contemporary Choreographer & Founder of No)one. Art House →

A classically trained, multi-disciplinary choreographer, who is one of the 3 founding members of a dance company called No)one. Art House., Chris Bordenave has recently been working with a number of musical artists, such as Anderson Paak, Mayer Hawthorne, and more recently Solange and Kelela. He has also been creating site-specific works for institutions such as the California African American Museum, Hauser + Wirth, and Solange’s SAINT HERON House. Click here to read the full interview.

Homeward Bound Group Show @ Nicodim Gallery In Los Angeles

Homeward Bound is a domestic setting where all the skeletons are let out of the closet and allowed to play on the furniture, to stomp each other’s grapes. With the eye of noted designer Oliver M. Furth, the gallery space has been transformed into a literal home, complete with a living room, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, beyond. Karon Davis’s Bianca sits plaintively by a front room window, drinking, smoking, waiting for a lover who will never return. Bjarne Melgaard cross-dresses in the skins of other species as if he was never quite comfortable in his own, while Lisa Anne Auerbach is very comfortable lounging around the house, reading bondage magazines in her underwear. Chris Burden’s first wife informs him in a letter that not only won’t she crucify him to their VW Bug, but that the suggestion has destroyed her relationship with the vehicle. Gold-leafed snails carry their mobile homes to the apexes of an organic landscapeβ€”the tips of Ruben Verdu’s nose and erect phallusβ€”and both artist and travelers achieve climax simultaneously. Within the walls of this house, faces become chairs, vaginas become toothy faces, jello moulds become temples and orifices, music becomes sex itself. Homeward Bound will be on view until December 9th at Nicodim Gallery, 571 S Anderson Street Ste 2 Los Angeles