Clare Rojas & Barry McGee
Bolinas Museum
June 19 – August 1 2010
Opening Saturday June 19 3-5pm
bolinasmuseum.org

Sigmar Polke, who died on June 10 aged 69, was an artist whose wildly-experimental paintings and prints have left an indelible mark on the last five decades of contemporary art. He will be missed.

Planning on posing this summer? A little recreational posing? Why not do it with the support of props designed just for this purpose. It might be a relief to have a some help in this department, after years of free-form (and let’s face it, often inaccurate) posing. For your convenience, eleven professional props will be installed in Union Square Park in New York, all summer. If you fill a little posing coming on, hurry over.

Eleven Heavy Things
Miranda July
May 29 – October 3, 2010
Center Lawn, Union Square Park

PRESENTED BY DEITCH PROJECTS AS ITS FINAL PUBLIC PROJECT. THE WORK IS EXHIBITED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNION SQUARE PARTNERSHIP AND NYC PARKS & RECREATION.

Silverman Gallery is pleased to present HOME, an exhibition of photographs by Matt Lipps on view from April 30 – June 5, 2010.

The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery uses cut-outs, appropriation and re-presentation to create still-lives and landscapes that negotiate the history of photography. In particular, Home presents photographs of domestic interiors that have been printed on several sheets of colored paper, cut into facets and taped back together so they cohere into the original image. These 8 by 11 inch assemblages serve as makeshift backdrops for abstracted elements cut out from black & white reproductions of Ansel Adam’s heroic landscapes. Captured on transparency film with a 4×5 camera, the resulting composite images are made entirely in-camera and printed large-scale to reveal and exaggerate their fabricated flimsiness.

Matt Lipps / HOME
April 30 – June 5, 2010
Opening Reception: April 30, 6 -8 PM
804 Sutter Street (between Jones and Leavenworth)
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.255.9508

SHOT BY KERN: Featuring the photographs and videos of Richard Kern.
May 21st – June 26th, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 20th, 7pm – 10pm
Kenny Schachter Rove
33-34 Hoxton Square
Hackney, London, N1 6NN

Presented by Vice.

In 1974, Jon Naar photographed The Faith of Graffiti (aka Watching My Name Go By) with introduction by Norman Mailer, now an iconic landmark in the history of street art. A rare exhibition of these photographs will go on display in Paris this week.

May 12th – June 5th, 2010
Galerie Olivier Robert
5 rue des Haudriettes 75003 Paris
+ 33 (0)1 43 25 31 87

“Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” will be the first US survey of the work of Brion Gysin (b. 1916, Taplow, UK; d. 1986, Paris), an irrepressible innovator, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit who continues to inspire artists today. The exhibition will include over 250 drawings, books, paintings, photo-collages, films, slide projections, and sound works, as well as the Dreamachine—a kinetic light sculpture that utilizes the flicker effect to induce visions.

In 1959, Gysin created the Cut-Up Method, wherein words and phrases were randomly collaged to unlock unknown meanings, culminating in The Third Mind, a book-length collage created with his lifelong collaborator William S. Burroughs. Transferring the idea of the Cut-Up to magnetic tape, Gysin became the father of sound poetry. Throughout his life, Gysin was a collaborator and an inspiration to artists, poets, and musicians, such as John Giorno, Brian Jones, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Genesis-P-Orridge, and Keith Haring.

More than two decades after his death, his work continues to attract the interest of a new generation of artists drawn to Gysin’s radical inderdisciplinarity, including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cerith Wyn Evans, Trisha Donnelly, and Scott Treleaven. The exhibition is curated by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and will be on view in the New Museum’s second-floor gallery. It will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published with Hugh Merrell, Ltd. which will include scholarly essays and appreciations by contemporary artists, musicians, and poets.

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
www.newmuseum.org

agnès b. et l’Espace Art 22 présentent :

DES JEUNES GENS MÖDERNES
Post Punk, Cold Wave et Culture Novö en France
1978 – 1983

BOUTIQUE AGNES B.
DU 30 AVRIL AU 20 JUIN 2010
Vernissage le jeudi 29 avril de 18 à 21h
(27 boulevard de Waterloo 1000 Bruxelles)

ESPACE ART 22
DU 6 MAI au 20 JUIN 2010
vernissage le mercredi 5 mai de 18 à 21h
(22 rue Van Aa 1050 Bruxelles)