Friday the 10th of September (7-10pm)
Capricious
103 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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In association with the second annual Perform! Now! festival, Actual Size Los Angeles is pleased to invite you to Haircuts and Popsicles. Celebrate the summer with specialty popsicles, haircuts, and performance. Filmmaker Josh Lee will sell his inventively flavored popsicles to onlookers while they watch haircuts and buzz cuts performed by artists in the gallery space. The hair clippings will accumulate for the duration of the performance, resulting in a sculptural work. Walk-ins are welcome. No appointments are necessary. 

Haircuts: Free,  Popsicles: $3
741 NEW HIGH STREET LOS ANGELES CA 90012
www.actualsizela.com

CHRISTOPHER WOOL
MAY 25 – JULY 30, 2010
Gagosian Gallery
Via Francesco Crispi 16
00187 Rome

Lutz Bacher, Tom Burr, Ross Knight, Bjarne Melgaard all take part in Forced Exposure at Team Gallery, NY. This exhibition focuses on works of art that position the viewer as an interloper in the gallery. As technology encourages people to expose themselves to unknown audiences online, the idea of privacy has relaxed to reflect these developments. The works on view test whether this lack of boundaries extends into the physical world. While the artists in the exhibition do not have a strictly confessional style, the works force an immediate and awkward intimacy onto the viewer. Team Gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor.

Forced Exposure
curated by Miriam Katzeff
1 July – 30 July, 2010
Opening Thursday July 1, 6-8 PM

Incredible new exhibition at Feature partners Tom of Finland with a number of other contemporary artists who frequently use sexual imagery in their work. ARTISTS: Richard Kern, Judy Linn, Bastille, Jerry Phillips, Martin of Holland, Joe Brainard, Fred Esher, Larry Clark, Robert W. Richards and Brian Kenny, Sean Landers, Richard Prince, Robert Fontanelli, GB Jones, Jeff Burton, Mie Yim, Raymond Pettibon, Catherine Opie, Carl Ferrero, Kevin Larmon, Jared Buckhiester, Judy Rifka, Jeffrey Pittu, Scooter Laforge, Tyler Ingolia, David Frye, The Hun, Kinke Kooi, Juan Gomez, Rex, Gengoroh Tagame.

Feature Inc.
131 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
212.675.7772
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JAYBO MONK, JR, ED TEMPLETON, XOOOOX, ANDRÉ, MAYA HAYUK, NOMAD, KELSEY BROOKES, STEFAN STRUMBEL, AARON ROSE, OSKAR, ANTON UNAI, ELMAR LAUSE, LABRONA, FAITH 47, KATRIN FRIDRIKS, HELLE MARDAHL, DTAGNO, MARCO “PHO” GRASSI,
Following the tradition of the literature and art salons of the early 20th century Circleculture prepares an art show escaping the traditional white cube atmosphere of todays galleries and museums. Sofas, carpets, lampshades, books, coffee and many well selected smaller works create a communicative atmosphere hailing art works by artists from the international urban art scene…
VERNISSAGE: 24. JUNE 2010, 7 PM
CIRCLECULTURE CC: GmbH
Gipsstrasse 11
10119 Berlin-Mitte . Germany
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Hole is pleased to present Not Quite Open for Business, a conceptual group show of unfinished art, unfinished poems, and unfinished symphonies. The installation is designed by Taylor McKimens and the show includes over twenty artists from our community. What does a “finished” piece mean anyway? Come tell us no, no, no we are doing it all wrong it needs more yellow on June 26 when we have to open the doors, ready or not.

BLARG opening a gallery immediately on the heels of Deitch Projects closing has been a struggle. Jeffrey leaving suddenly to be the director of the LA MOCA, us not knowing what to do with ourselves after eight years here, scrambling to figure out who would be on our team, trying to wrangle artists, looking for a space, investors, a name, a logo. We were going to open two shows June 26th but our corporate sponsor pulled out at the last second on the big expensive exhibition. We scrambled to find a different source for the 80K and FOUND IT only to have, two days later, the space for the show revoked. No way around that one; we threw in the towel.

Then suddenly our other exhibition, the inaugural show at the Greene Street space, was cancelled! The artist was under too much pressure to make this big installation and we were running out of time to execute his idea well. Which is totally understandable and did not make me go outside and cry on a stoop. I GIVE UP! Or rather I did until it occurred to me:

Turn into the skid! The Hole: NOT QUITE open for business. What if the gallery didn’t look finished, lights burned out, cracks in the floor, a mop bucket still sitting out. What if the sheetrock was showing and the benches were half painted and the press release full of typoos?

We called our artists and said hey, want to be in our first show opening in less than a month? They all said they didn’t have enough time, were too busy, blah blah blah. We said GREAT! Give us an incomplete piece. Give us a piece that has been on your wall half done for two years. Give us a drawing that you just can’t bring yourself to finish from your flat files. Put half your makeup on and come give us most of a performance!

The show is not about process art or deliberately “unfinished” artworks, it is about getting caught with your pants down and your lipstick smudged and your armpits sweaty because you didn’t have time to take a shower before YOUR FIRST GALLERY SHOW

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