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Taha Heydari: decoding ISIS
at Ethan Cohen, New York
New York, NY, USA
Apr 16, 15 - May 30, 15

Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present TAHA HEYDARI: decoding ISIS featuring Iranian artist Taha Heydari. The exhibition will run from April 16th to May 30th , 2015. Taha Heydari鈥檚 works deconstruct the process by which media images, most associated with the Middle East, seduce the unwary into joining violent groups. The particular fluency of ISIS in the use of such methods has made the phenomenon a universal concern and Heydari explores the esthetic terrain of their propaganda. read more...

Whitney Bedford: Night and Day
at Taymour Grahne Gallery
Tribeca - New York, NY, USA
Apr 16, 15 - May 20, 15

Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to announce Night and Day, a solo-exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Whitney Bedford. In this most recent body of work, layered ink drawing interacts with and is subsumed by oil paint to form volatile, mercurial compositions. Her concern is with the sublime, as Edmund Burke explores it in 鈥淎 Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful鈥� (1757), describing the sublime as a physiologically related response to phenomena, referring to it as an instinct of self-preservation. read more...

Made By Hand
at Charlie James Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Apr 18, 15 - May 30, 15

Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Made by Hand, a group show curated by Los Angeles-based artist Heather Brown. The show features work by Pamela Jorden, Benjamin Lord, Allison Miller, John Mills, and Torbj枚rn Vejvi. Made by Hand features work that demonstrates process felt rather than process fetishized. The objects gathered for this show have been imagined and built, not fabricated. read more...

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Museum District - Houston, TX, USA
Apr 18, 15 - Aug 02, 15

For over three decades Marilyn Minter has produced lush paintings, photographs, and videos that vividly manifest our culture鈥檚 complex and contradictory emotions around the feminine body and beauty. Her unique works鈥攆rom the oversized paintings of makeup-laden lips and eyes to soiled designer shoes鈥攂ring into sharp, critical focus the power of desire. As an artist Minter has always made seductive visual statements that demand our attention while never shirking her equally crucial roles as provocateur, critic, and humorist. read more...

Adam Pendleton: New Work
at Pace London, Burlington Gardens
Mayfair - London, UK
Apr 16, 15 - May 23, 15

Pace London is delighted to present New Work, the gallery鈥檚 second solo exhibition by the American artist Adam Pendleton. Staged at Pace London, 6 Burlington Gardens, the exhibition will be on view from 16 April to 23 May 2015 and will precede Pendleton鈥檚 presentation in the Belgian Pavilion of the 2015 Venice Biennale. Pendleton鈥檚 cross-disciplinary practice draws from experimental literature, Dadaism, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. read more...

Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra - Collaborative Works II
at Choi&Lager Gallery
Cologne, Germany
Apr 18, 15 - Jul 31, 15

For our second exhibition of 2015, CHOI&LAGER Galerie is proud to present Collaborative Works II: new and recent works by British sculptor Nick Hornby and the British-Balinese painter and installation artist Sinta Tantra. Having presented their first installment of collaborative works in the public lobby of One Canada Square (Canary Wharf, London) during 2013, this move into CHOI&LAGER鈥檚 gallery environment offers a platform for new dialogues between their highly-crafted, semiotically-loaded works. Hornby and Tantra met at London鈥檚 Slade School of Fine Art in the early 2000鈥檚, the artists have since followed divergent career paths. read more...

Ne茂l Beloufa: Hopes for the Best
at Schinkel Pavillion
Berlin, Germany
Apr 18, 15 - May 31, 15

Ne茂l Beloufa鈥檚 work Superlatives and Resolution, People Passion, Movement and Life from 2014 is a kinetic sculpture that integrates and refracts a fragmented video onto its moving panels. As the sculpture expands and contracts along its steel tracks within the octagonal space of the Schinkel Pavillon, the video unfolds a narrative that travels across a series of staged interviews. The interviewees, everyday people of youth and health, exalt an unnamed city by describing its merits, such as the different kinds of natural waters that offer the ideal alchemy for recreational sports. read more...

Ji艡铆 Kovanda: MOOM
at daadgalerie
Mitte - Berlin, Germany
Apr 18, 15 - May 23, 15

As one of the the Czech Republic鈥檚 most internationally-renowned contemporary artists, Ji艡铆 Kovanda (*1953 in Prague) first gained notice with his early performances in public spaces. These works could be considered both discrete and poetic, such as when he stood with outstretched arms on Wenceslas Square in Prague, or turned around on an escalator in order to fix his gaze on the people standing behind him. In other works, he arranged simple materials at selected urban locations. read more...

Javier Tapia: High Density: Fragments, Stories and Traditions
at Galleri Christoffer Egelund
Indre by - Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr 17, 15 - May 16, 15

Gallery Christoffer Egelund proudly present our first solo exhibition with the Copenhagen-based Chilean artist Javier Tapia: High Density: Fragments, stories & traditions. Javier Tapia invades the gallery space with enormous collages in which history of culture is unfolded from a personal point of view. The collages are the culmination of the artist鈥檚 diligent compiliation of visual material throughout the last three years. read more...

David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring
at Pace Beijing
Beijing, China
Apr 18, 15 - Jun 06, 15

David Hockney is honored to present David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, which features iPad drawings and video by one of the most important and celebrated living artists in the world. The exhibition will be on view from April 18, 2015, through June 6, 2015. The Arrival of Spring includes iPad prints, and video installations depicting the gradual change from winter to spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire. read more...