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Calendar. 05.23.12.

c-monster — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:05:38 +0000

Scheme, 2011, a pencil drawing by Karl Haendel. Part of the solo exhibition Informal Family Blackmail at Susanne Vielmetter Projects, in Los Angeles. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City. (Image courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter.)

Aspen: The Residue of Memory, a group show, and and Simon Denny: Full Participation, at the Aspen Art Museum. Through July 15.
L.A.: Aakash Nihalani, Mark Jenkins and Yue Min at Carmichael Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
Kansas City: Mathias Merkel Hess, William J. O’Brien and Arlene Shechet, SUM, at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Opens Friday at 6pm.
Atlanta: Picturing the South, at the High Museum of Art. Opens Saturday.
Miami: Ed Ruscha: On the Road, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Opens Thursday, in North Miami. (Plus, a profile of the artist — and his taste for Jack Kerouac — in Ocean Drive.)
Miami: Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedía, at the Miami Art Musem. Opens Thursday, in downtown.
Plus: Get all my latest New York picks on Gallerina…

Calendar. 05.09.12.

c-monster — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:20:40 +0000

From Barry McGee’s upcoming solo at Prism LA. Opens Saturday, in West Hollywood. (Image courtesy of the artist and Prism.)

Lima: Milagro de la Torre, Indicios, at the Museo de Arte de Lima. Through July 1.
Oakland: Jennie Ottinger, What To Do With Your Orphan: A Manual, at Johansson Projects. Opens Thursday; artist reception on Saturday at 5pm.
L.A.: Shoots and Ladders: New Paintings by Simon McWilliams, at Skotia Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Culver City.
L.A.: French Invasion!, French graffiti artists, at Fabien Castanier Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Studio City.
Chicago: First Fifty, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Opens Saturday.
NYC: Mark Dion, Phantoms of the Clark Expedition, at the Explorers Club. Opens today.
NYC: Animated Spirits, Shields of New Guinea, at Cavin Morris. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
NYC: Brent Green, To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given, at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Through June 23, in Chelsea.
Plus: Get all my NYC picks over at Gallerina…

Calendar. 04.25.12.

c-monster — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:04:27 +0000

Times, 2011, by Stanley Donwood. Part of an 18-foot panel showing the destruction of L.A. at the artist’s solo exhibit Lost Angeles, at Subliminal Projects. Opens Saturday at 8pm, in Echo Park. (Image courtesy of the artist and Subliminal Projects.)

L.A.: Mickalene Thomas, The Origin of the Universe, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Through August 19, in Santa Monica.
Dallas: Erwin Wurm, Beauty Business, at Dallas Contemporary. Through August.
NYC: Freehand Jobs, a group show at Pandemic Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Williamsburg.
NYC: Charles Yuen, at Valentine. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Ridgewood/Bushwick.
Plus, see all my latest New York picks over at Gallerina…

Photo Diary: In Wonderland, surrealist women at LACMA.

c-monster — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:20:25 +0000

Las dos Fridas, 1939, by Frida Kahlo.

Rainy Day Canape, 1970, by Dorothea Tanning.

I Have No Shadow, 1940, by Kay Sage.

LACMA has a beguilingly weird show of surrealist artists up: In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women in Mexico and the United States tracks surreal art in North America during the middle years of the 20th century. There’s some freaky dark stuff in the show (including a picture by Lee Miller that show mastectomied breasts on a plate). But it also has its charmingly bizarre parts (love the Tanning stuffed couch piece above). And it includes little-known works by well-known artists. Definitely worth it if you’re looking for something out of the ordinary.

In Wonderland is up through May 6th.

Birthday, 1942, by Dorothea Tanning.

Detail from Birthday. The show had lots of animal-monsters in it.

Portrait of C.Y., 1947-49, by Louise Bourgeois.

Detail of The Chrysopeia of Mary the Jewess, 1964 by Lenora Carrington. This lady had to have been a total weirdo.

The Courtship, 1949, by Gertrude Abercrombie.

Portrait de famille, 1954, by Dorothea Tanning.

Papilla estelar, 1958, by Remedios Varo.

Shattered color, 1947, by Lee Krasner.

Someone needs to do a show of Dorothea Tanning’s 1960s-70s sculptures. This shit is off the hook. Above, Xmas, from 1969.

Los Encarcelados, 1965, by Bridget Tichenor.

If I was going to paint a self-portrait, this is what it would look like: Lenora Carrington’s 1937-38 Self-Portrait. Check out her hair! (Sorry about the glare. Damn glass.)

Calendar. 04.03.12.

c-monster — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:20:34 +0000

Beauty Parlor, Tokyo, c. 1975, by Daido Moriyama. Part of the exhibit Fracture: Daido Moriyama, at LACMA. Opens Saturday, in the Fairfax District. (Image courtesy of LACMA.)

L.A.: Elizabeth Peyton, What Wondrous Thing Do I See, at Regen Projects. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Beverly Hills.
S.F.: Solo ESAS Mujeres, a group show with Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and many others, at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Through May 5, in the Mission.
S.F.: Everything Ever and Nothing Ever, a group show featuring Deuce 7, Read More Books, Bill Daniel and many others, at Needles and Pens. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in the Mission.
Seattle: Sharon Butler and Allison Manch, Squeeze Hard (Hold That Thought), at Season. Opens Sunday at 5pm.
Nashville: Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination, at the First Center for the Visual Arts. Through May 28, in downtown.
Pittsburgh: Henri Matisse: The Thousand and One Nights, at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Opens Saturday.
NYC: David Lyle, Misbehaving, at Lyons Wier Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
NYC: Brent Birnbaum, The Bureau of Apology, at the LAB at the Roger Smith Hotel. Opens Friday, in Midtown.
Paris: Helmut Newton, at the Grand Palais. Through June 17. (Adverve.)
Plus: All my latest New York picks in Gallerina…