February 13, 2013

Calendar. 02.13.13.

In the Hood, by David Hammons, 1993. Part of the exhibit NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at the New Museum. Opens today, on the Lower East Side. (Collection Connie and Jack Tilton, New York.)

Orange County: Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain, at the Orange County Museum of Art. Opens Sunday, in Newport Beach.
L.A.: Johannes Vermeer, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, at the Getty Museum. Opens Saturday, in West L.A.
L.A.: Lust Letters, at Coagula Curatorial. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Chinatown.
L.A.: Bas Jan Ader, The Studies, at Patrick Painter Gallery. Through March 9, in Santa Monica.
Santa Fe: Jason Lujan, Summer Burial, at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Through May 12.
Chicago: Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Opens Saturday. GO. SEE. THIS. SHOW.
Chicago: Picasso and Chicago, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Opens Saturday.
Washington, D.C.: Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, at the National Gallery of Art. Opens Sunday.
NYC: Indiecade East, at the Museum of the Moving Image. Friday through Sunday, in Astoria.
NYC: Gutai: Splendid Playground, at the Guggenheim Museum. Opens Friday, on the Upper East Side.
NYC: Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth, at the Museum of Modern Art. Opens Sunday, in Midtown. (Want to see this for the book sausages.)
NYC: Shinique Smith, Bold as Love, at the James Cohan Gallery. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
NYC: Yevgeniy Fiks, Homosexuality is Stalin’s Atom Bomb to Destroy America, at Edward Winkleman Gallery. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
NYC: Beatrice Caracciolo, Battaglia, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
NYC: Despina Stokou, bulletproof, at Derek Eller Gallery. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
NYC: Matt Blackwell, Ass Backward to Eden, at Valentine Gallery. Opens this Friday at 6pm, in Bushwick.
NYC: Beat Nite in Bushwick, which means art spaces stay open late. This Friday from 6-10pm.

September 29, 2011

Calendar. 09.29.11.

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.