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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Incomplete houses, by David Goldblatt, at Haunch of Venison, in London. (Image courtesy of HOV.)
- In London: Home Lands, Land Marks, art by contemporary South African artists, at Haunch of Venison.
- In Monterrey, Mexico: inTENciones, the work of architect Enrique Norten, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, opens Thursday.
- In NYC: Enrique Chagoya, Aaron Johnson and Miguel Luciano in Grotesque Histories at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, opens tomorrow.
- In NYC: Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney, through September 21st.
- In NYC: Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film, at MoMA, through September 15th.
- In Miami: Shadows, Disappearances and Illusions at MAM, through September 21st.
- In S.F.: Yellena James at Giant Robot, through July 16th.
- In Beijing: Media Art in China at NAMOC, through Thursday.
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008

O dia em que ele não atirou o molotof by Os Gemeos. (Photo by server pics.)
- In NYC: Os Gemeos at Deitch Projects, opens Saturday. See a preview pic here.
- In NYC: Un Named Rottens, with Beau Velasco, Daniel St. George and Jeremiah Maddox, at Factory Fresh in Brooklyn, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Ray Caesar and Adam Wallacavage at Jonathan Levine, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls, open today. More here and here. Plus: a slideshow.
- In NYC: Bill Owens at James Cohan, opens tonight.
- In NYC: The premiere of the documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine, at Film Forum, and her show at the Guggenheim, both open tomorrow. More on Bourgeois here and here.
- In NYC: Gallerie Pulaski opening tomorrow in Long Island City.
- In NYC: A panel on the Brooklyn Museum’s crowd-curated photo exhibit, with James Surowiecki of the New Yorker, Jeff Howe of Wired and Eugene Tsai and Shelley Bernstein of the Brooklyn Museum, on Governor’s Island, this Saturday at 11 a.m.
- In Chicago: David Hockney at the Arts Club of Chicago, through July 18th.
- In Chicago: Plushform at Rotofugi, opens tomorrow.
- In Santa Fe: Contemporary glass sculpture at the New Mexico Museum of Art, through Sept. 21st.
- In S.F.: Mark Bode, Rome and B Boy B at Space Gallery.
- In L.A.: Conversations with Chaz Bojorquez and Vincent Valdez at LACMA, this Sunday at 2 p.m.
- In L.A.: Self Help Graphics annual print exhibition and fair, this Sunday, beginning at noon.
- In Laguna Beach, Calif.: The Land of Retinal Delights at the Laguna Museum of Art, through October 5th.
- In Berlin: Ovni, Zosen, Kafre and tom14 in Concrete Secrets at Neurotitan.
- In Florence: Exploding Views: Remapping Florence at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Smokin’ Mermaids by Gina Triplett. (Image courtesy of Curcio Projects.)
- In NYC: Gina Triplett, Little Mermaids, at Umbrella Arts, opens tomorrow.
- In NYC (Corrected): Jörg Heiser and Brian Sholis, the editors of Frieze, will give a talk at the Austrian Cultural Forum in an event organized by the Goethe Institut, tomorrow at 7 p.m.
- In NYC: Ornithology, a group show, at Jen Bekman, opens tomorrow.
- In NYC: Jeffrey Beebe, Ape Machine, at Lyons Wier Ortt, opens Thursday.
- In NYC: Goya’s Los desastres de la guerra at Peter Blum, through August 1st.
- In Williamstown, Mass.: The Art of Painting Softly at Tadao Ando’s newly expanded Clark Art Institute.
- In Denver: Florence Knoll: Defining Modern at the Kirkland Museum.
- In Seattle: Jon Haddock at Howard House, through July 19th.
- In Monterey, Calif.: A one-time test screening of New Brow, a flick about the low brow/pop surrealism movement, at the Golden State Theatre.
- In L.A.: Philip-Lorca diCorcia at LACMA, through September 14th.
- In L.A.: Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, at MoCA. An NPR interview, along with images of her work, can be found here.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Albuquerque #9 by Richard Diebenkorn. (Image courtesy of Prizmetrix.)
- In Washington, D.C.: Diebenkorn at the Philips Collection.
- In Santa Fe, N.M.: Jenny Holzer’s Venice Biennale installation from 1990 is on view at EVO.
- In NYC: Snaggs, Le Merde and Scrappers at Giant Robot Gallery.
- In NYC: Heavy Light: Recent Japanese Photography and Video at ICP.
- In NYC: Josh Keyes and Jeremy Fish at Joshua Liner, opens Saturday.
- In Cincinnati: David Ellis at the Country Club Gallery, opens June 21st. (Via Juxtapoz.)
- In Denver: Landscape in the Age of Impressionism at the Denver Museum of Art.
- In L.A.: Chicano Visions at LACMA, through Nov. 2nd.
- In L.A.: The premiere of Dirty Hands, a film about artist David Choe, at the Majestic Crest, as part of the L.A. Film Festival.
- In S.F.: Barry McGee, Clare Rojas, Kaws and many others at VASF Gallery, opening tonight.
- In Berlin: Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paraiso at Merry Karnowsky, opens Saturday.
- In Sydney: The 16th Biennial, in multiple venues, through September 7th.
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil, by Oscar Niemeyer, in Brasilia. (Photo by Luiz Castro.)
- In Santiago, Chile: Poética de la Forma, the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer, at the Museo de Bellas Artes, opens Friday.
- In S.F.: Frida Kahlo at S.F. MoMA.
- In L.A.: MBW in Life is Beautiful at Columbia Square, opens tomorrow (with Shepard Fairey on the turntables).
- In NYC: Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns? at Tony Shafrazi.
- In NYC: Kaws at Franklin Parrasch gallery, opens tonight.
- In London: Captivated: The Art of the Interned, works made by Muslim men held in British prisons without charge, at Together, through July 4th.
- In Zurich: Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth, through July 26th.
- In Madrid: Extraordinary Rendition at the Helga de Alvear Gallery, through July 19th.
- In Coruña, Spain: The Spanish Portrait at the Prado: From Goya to Sorolla, at Fundación Caixa Galicia.
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

A portrait of F. Trainer, by Elbow Toe. (Photo by F. Trainer.)
- In NYC: The Poets of the Paste, featuring Elbow-Toe, Gaia, Armsrock and Imminent Disaster, at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, opens Friday. There’s a Q&A with Elbow-Toe here (via Wooster) and photos of Armsrock’s dioramas here.
- In NYC: Roy Lichtenstein: Girls at Gagosian on Madison Ave., through June 28th.
- In NYC: The photography of James Mollison in The Disciples & James and Other Apes at Hasted Hunt, opens today.
- In Washington, D.C.: Molnar & Johnson’s Show at Transformer, through June 14th.
- In Bellevue, Wash: Sculpted green, an outdoor sculpture exhibit, at City Hall and Downtown Park, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Houseguest: Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection at the Hammer, through September 14th.
- In Pomona, Calif.: Book signing of Graffiti L.A. with Revok, Retna, Rick One and more, at GCS Pomona, this Saturday at 7 p.m.
- In Gateshead, England: Yoshitomo Nara’s Baltic Castle, at the Baltic Gallery, opens Saturday. Related: a round-up of Nara videos.
- In Paris: L’Atlas, Michael De Feo, Lignes Rouges, Swoon and WK Interact in Le Mur at Galerie L.J. Beaubourg, opens today.
- In Vienna: Bad Painting, Good Art at the Museum of Modern Art, through December 10th. (Via NotCot.)
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