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Chilton 1 Gallon Gas Can, by Matthias Merkel-Hess. Gas cans crafted from porcelain. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit, Bucketry, at ACME. Through December 21, in Mid-Wilshire. (Image courtesy of Merkel-Hess. See many more here.)
- Portland, Ore.: Body Gesture: A group exhibition of Feminist Art, at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Through January 28.
- Aspen: Huma Bhabha, at the Aspen Art Museum. Opens today at 6pm.
- Milwaukee: The Tool At Hand, at the Milwaukee Museum of Art, opens today.
- Chicago: Andrew Bird and Ian Schneller, Sonic Arboretum, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Through December 30.
- Vila Vehla, Brazil: Os Gemeos, Fermata, at the Museo Vale. Through February 12.
- Plus: Get all my New York picks over at Gallerina…
My slideshow of the Maurizio Cattelan exhibit at the Guggenheim is now online at WNYC.
The Shipwreck Irene, by R.L. Croft, in Rocky Mount, N.C. The piece, built in October, is located in Battle Park off of Falls Road near the Route 64 overpass. (Image courtesy of R.L. Croft.)
- The disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street.
- Dear UC Davis: What. The. Fuck.
- My colleague Jenn Hsu has a nice explainer on the Occupy Wall Street kitchen.
- On the Media has a highly interesting report on professional wrestling’s labor-issues storyline.
- The Clyfford Still Museum opens up in Denver. I kinda like knowing that he was terrified of fire — and by extension, electrical appliances.
- Floral designers and merchandise displayers are considered artists according to the NEA.
- Totally late on this, but I dig Alissa Walker’s takedown of Breast Cancer Awareness month’s cutesy-pinkness. I couldn’t agree more. And I’m certainly over the whole merch-fication of the disease. Besides, the whole buy-some-crap-and-save-the-world philanthropy model leaves something to be desired. Feels like regular old consumerism in feel-good dressing.
- This Os Gemeos exhibit in Brazil looks pretty damn trippy.
- For the audio heads: A gathering of vintage sounds. Loooooove #8.
- Kill Screen links to a marginally interactive Mercedes ad/film that shows the Google Map universe as a technological dystopia. Hot chick with British accent included.
- Cut & Paste Culture, Dead-Tree Edition: A London bookstore caters to seekers of rights-free images.
- Are you a zombie? Or a vampire? I think I’m a vampire, with occasional moments of zombie-tude.
- Things you need to know if you live in L.A.: X, the Dead Kennedy’s and the Avengers are playing a gig at MOCA in January. Get. On. It.
- For sale: Carhenge. (h/t @vidalia.)
In One Piece At A Time, artist Jonathan Brand has recreated a Ford Mustang entirely out of paper. And since my first car was a banana yellow ’75 Mustang sedan, well, I couldn’t resist featuring it here. The paper auto is on view at Hosfelt Gallery through October 29 in New York City. (Image courtesy of the artist.)
- Newport Beach, Calif.: State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, at OCMA. Opens Sunday.
- L.A.: Craig Kauffman, Sensual Mechanical, at Frank Lloyd Gallery. Through October 15, in Santa Monica.
- L.A.: Sigrid Sandstrom, Hide-outs, at The Company. Through October 29, in Chinatown.
- L.A.: Cuentos de Amor y Resistencia: The Tenacity of Chicana Artistic Expression, a panel with Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin, María Elena Gaitán, and Judithe Hernández, at the Vincent Price Art Museum. This Saturday at noon, in Monterey Park. This will be followed by readings and performances tied to the exhibit After The Gold Rush: Reflections and Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium of August 29th, 1970.
- Oakland, Calif.: Ajit Chauhan and Kevin Killian, Don’t Be Upset — I’m Only Crying in English, at Sight School. Opens Saturday.
- Marfa, Tex.: Justin Almquist, at the Chinati Foundation. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
- Miami: Bhakti Baxter, Rompelotas, at Gallery Diet. Opens Friday at 7pm.
- Greenwich, Conn.: On Every Street: An Exhibition of Work by 30 Street Artists, at Samuel Owen Gallery. Opens today at 6pm.
- London: Neil Ayling, Flextion, at EB&Flow Gallery. Through November 5.
- Plus: You can find all my latest NYC listings over at Gallerina.
Vacancy/No Vacancy, 1972, by Lili Lakich. Featured in the exhibit Doin’ it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, at the Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, through January 28 — part of the Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions in Los Angeles. (Image courtesy of the Ben Maltz Gallery.)
Pacific Standard Time seems to be roaring along quite nicely, with exhibits opening up all over Southern California to celebrate the region’s post-War art. I’ve got an overview story in this month’s ARTnews about the project — which includes anecdotes about how curators were able to track down pieces in Kansas bank branches and parking lot shipping containers.
You can read that story here.
And be sure to click over even if PST is not your realm of interest. ARTnews has a new website that is all kinds of snazzy. Worth checking out!
Bag Lady in Flight, by David Hammons — ca. 1970s (reconstructed 1990). Part of the exhibit Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980, at the Hammer Museum. Opens Sunday, in Westwood. (Collection of Eileen Norton, courtesy of the Hammer Museum.)
If there was one place I wish I could be this week, it’s SoCal, for the official launch of Pacific Standard Time. There’s gonna be all kinds of great exhibits. Below, I’ve listed some of the ones opening this week that have caught my eye. (Don’t forget Asco at LACMA, which has already opened.) Naturally, there are many others coming up, so check out the Getty’s hub website for a complete list of all the related exhibits.
- L.A.: Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, at the Getty Museum. Opens Saturday, in West L.A.
- L.A.: Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Opens Saturday, at the Geffen Contemporary.
- L.A.: Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo, at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Through February 26.
- L.A.: Doin’ it in Public, Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis. Opens Saturday, in Westchester.
- L.A.: California Design: 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” at LACMA. Opens Saturday.
- L.A.: Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, at LACE. Through January 29.
- L.A.: Eriberto and Estevan Oriol, Like Father Like Son, at the Carmichael Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
- La Jolla, Calif.: Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Through January 22.
- La Jolla, Calif.: New Out West: Peter Alexander, Mary Corse and Robert Irwin, at Quint Contemporary. Through November 12.
- Austin: Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored, at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. This looks like a must-see. Through January 22.
- Durham, N.C.: The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, at the Nasher Museum. Through December 31.
- Mexico City: Saner, Los Iluminados, at Fifty24 MX Gallery (at the Colima 159 location, in Colonia Roma). Opens Saturday.
- PLUS: Find my latest New York City picks over at Gallerina.
Silver Dollar (Ruinas), by Diego J. Garza. Part of the exhibit After the Gold Rush: Reflections and Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium of August 29th, 1970, at the Vincent Price Art Museum. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Monterey Park. (Image courtesy of VPAM.)
- L.A.: Roberts and Tilton is hosting a book party for the launch of L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints this Saturday at 5pm in Culver City. This sounds like the kinda book I’d want to read.
- L.A.: Andrea Zittel at Regen Projects. Opens Friday, in West Hollywood.
- L.A.: Gronk, Empty Lines, at L2kontemporary. Opens Saturday, in Echo Park.
- Long Beach: MEX/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985, at the Museum of Latin American Art. Opens Sunday.
- NYC: And Another Thing, a group show, at the CUNY Graduate Center on Fifth Avenue. Through October 29, in Midtown.
- Plus, find all my latest NYC recommends over at Gallerina — including the all-kinds-of-awesome de Kooning retrospective at MoMA… Don’t miss!
Marianne Vitale’s Model for a Torpedo. On view in the group show Norfolk, at Thierry Goldberg in NYC, through October 30. (Photo by C-M.)
- L.A.: Betye Saar, Red Time, at Roberts & Tilton. Opens Saturday, in Culver City.
- L.A.: Tim Gratkowski, White Out, at Blythe Projects. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
- L.A.: José Parlá, Character Gestures, at OHWOW. Opens Friday, in West Hollywood.
- L.A.: Los Vets, a group show with David Botello, Judithe Hernandez, Gilbert “Magu” Luján and many others, at the Avenue 50 Studio. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Highland Park.
- L.A.: A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed, at the Getty Gallery at the Central Library. Opens today, in downtown.
- Austin: The Anxiety of Photography, a two-part exhibition at the Arthouse at the Jones Center and the Austin Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
- NYC: Heat Beaten, A Summer’s End Art Show, at Pandemic Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm.
- London: James Casabere, Credit, Faith Trust, at Lisson Gallery. Through October 1.
- London: Modern Frustrations, with Blue Curry, Ross Jones, Littlewhitehead and Tim Phillips, at Sumarria Lunn. Opens today.
- Madrid: Alexandre Arrechea, the Sacrificed Object, at Galería Casado Santa Pau. Opens today.
- Plus, find my latest NYC picks over in my Gallerina Datebook — and if you’re hitting Chelsea starting tonight, don’t forget WNYC’s digital/downloadable guide to the shows!!!