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Patricia Faure Ferus Gallery Artists 1959

From Left: John Altoon, Craig Kauffman, Allen Lynch, Ed Kienholz, Ed Moses, Robert Irwin, Billy Al Bengston

Here is your biweekly weekend/near feature guide for Los Angeles! Enjoy kids, next week is February and that means summertime!

• The can’t miss art fair this weekend Art Contemporary Los Angeles is at the PDC with all sorts of events.
• Tonight, Friday January 29, if you haven’t made any plans yet, LAXART is having a shindig for the opening of Kamrooz Aram.
• From 5-7pm this Saturday, January 30, the old Ferus Gallery Space will be having a sort of “Greatest Hits” show. The Ferus Gallery, no matter how shortly it lasted, is one of more important spaces to bring culturally relevant and challenging art to Los Angeles, this is a can’t be missed situation.
• Regen Projects is opening James Welling this Saturday, January 30, from 6-8pm.
• A one park and walk situation, just down the street M + B is having an opening for Alex Prager.
• Even extra convenient, Kopeikin (also walking distance) is having a little party for the opening of Mitch Dobrowner.
• The Hammer is opening a Rachel Whiteread exhibition focused on her drawings. I can’t wait to see it, it’s guaranteed to be magical!
• Amanda Ross-Ho is showing at the Pomona Museum through the middle of April.
• Last, but not least, MOCA is still showing their permanent collections at both locations.

January 29, 2010, 3:31pm  

Installation shot at the Saatchi Gallery of the new exhibition The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today

And here is the weekend/near future guide for cities other than Los Angeles.  This week it includes:

New York

• The Gagosian located at Madison Avenue is opening Damien Hirst’s new show End of an Era.  I don’t know if it will be good, but it will probably be flashy. So that’s something, right?
• You only have about one more week to go take in some pretty epic Keith Sonnier’s at Mary Boone Gallery.  It comes down on February 6.
• A little more than half way through it’s show is Anish Kapoor: Memory at the Guggenheim. Something to do to keep you out of the cold, right?*

London

• The Saatchi is opening it’s newest exhibition (pictured above) entitled The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, looks to be a promising show.
• Ed Keinholz at The National Gallery is certainly a must see!  If you haven’t had a chance to go by yet, hurry up because it’s only on through February 21st.
• The Unilever Series by Miroslaw Balka is halfway through its run at the Tate Modern.

Paris

• Palais Tokyo is closing Bertrand Dezoteux this Sunday. Last chance!
• Herman Diephuis: Ciao Bella is at the Centre Pompidou this weekend. Buy tickets here.
• L’interprétation des rêvesat is opening at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian this weekend. Looks surreal.

*You’re right, I don’t know how cold it is there. It’s sunny and warm. Sorry for trying to pretend like I understand.

January 29, 2010, 2:55pm  

Lee Ufan Dialogue, 2008

A new year, a new feature.  I have decided to do a weekend/near future guide for Los Angeles. I  will do my best to update it at least every other week, and it will include all the awesome things that I am going to be seeing.  So on that note, enjoy!

• I can’t forget/or not start with my one and only Aaron Young who is having his first Los Angeles exhibition opening tonight at Gagosian. You know I will be there. With bells on. Now where do I go buy bells?
• Lee Ufan opens tomorrow, January 16, at Blum + Poe.  If you haven’t been to the new space yet, what are you waiting for?
• Peres Projects presents “BOY”, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Cody Critcheloe – SSION.  The opening is from 6-8pm, as are most of these Culver City Galleries. Park your car and walk around!
• Daniel Dove is showing at Cherry and Martin. Up through Feb 20.
• On January 16th from 6-8pm, Roberts & Tilton is having the opening reception for their film festival Projects: A Festival of Rare and Hard to See Films, organized by Aaron Rose.  There will be at least one film a day through February 20.  You can see the schedule here and learn more about it here.
• Thomas Schutte is opening at Maloney Fine Arts/2680 this Saturday from 6-8pm.
• Glenn Ligon is at Regen Projects for two more weeks. This you definitely want to see.

January 15, 2010, 3:10pm  

Philip Taaffe Spectral Mandala, 2007

I have decided to start doing a weekend/near future guide for places other than Los Angeles as well!

New York:

• Philip Taaffe is opening at Gagosian’s 555 West 24th Street location.  The official opening is this Saturday the 16th from 5-7pm and the show will showing through February 20.  This is the first show ever based solely on Taaffe’s graphic work so it should be interesting.
• Christian Hellmich just opened at Lehman Maupin and will also be up through February 20.
• I don’t even want to type this because you should have already seen it.  But JUST IN CASE you haven’t seen the Zhang Huan show at Pace Wildenstein, you only have about 2 more weeks to see it. It closes January 30.
• Frank Stella is showing a collection of aluminum reliefs at L+M Gallery for two more weeks.

London:

• Daphne Wright opened at Frith Street Gallery yesterday and will be showing through February 27.  Her sculptures look pretty epic and dare I say fun? I would definitely stop by some time before this closes.
• You have 2 more weeks to stop by White Cube to see some of Hirst’s new paintings.
• Sunday is the last day to see Pop Life, Art in a Material World at Tate Modern. It’s a veritable who’s who of pop artists, if anything the colors will be a nice change of pace from the outside weather.

San Francisco:

• SFMOMA has a few exhibitions opening, b ut the ones that are peaking my interest are Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection and The View From Here which is a photography exhibit focused on California and San Francisco.

January 15, 2010, 2:47pm