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In this article we present you with a diverse selection of unique exhibitions and art fairs to watch this week. The selection includes music, performance art, photography and painting exhibitions as well as art fairs: SP-Arte in São Paulo, showcasing the best selection of Brazilian and international modern masters and Art Dubai, the cornerstone of the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), region’s booming contemporary art community.

OKTOPHONIE: Karlheinz Stockhausen & Rirkrit Tiravanija
at Park Avenue Armory
New York, NY, USA
Mar 20, 13 - Mar 27, 13

Rirkrit Tiravanija at Park Avenue Armory"> Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the most significant composers of modern and electronic music, influencing artists from The Beatles to Bjork, Miles Davis to Animal Collective, Frank Zappa, and more. Performed by one of his original collaborators Kathinka Pasveer , the maverick composer’s OKTOPHONIE from his opus Licht gets an exciting new life in an epic production of this monumental composition. Acclaimed contemporary visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija stages the work as the composer originally intended—in outer space—creating a lunar floating seating unit to fully envelop the listener in octophonic sound. read more...

B. Wurtz: Recent Works
at Metro Pictures
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Mar 21, 13 - Apr 27, 13

B. Wurtz presents sculptures, paintings and photographs for his first exhibition at Metro Pictures since his 2011 retrospective at the gallery. For more than 40 years Wurtz has collected and repurposed common objects such as tin cans, socks and plastic bags to create his understated yet insightful found-object sculpture. A 1973 drawing titled Three Important Things, which states “sleeping, eating and keeping warm,” set the parameters for the materials Wurtz would go on to use. read more...

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital
at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn - New York, NY, USA
Mar 22, 13 - Aug 11, 13

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital uses social documentary and portraiture to create a personal visual history of an industrial town’s decline. Through approximately 40 photographic works of her family and their hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier offers an intimate exploration of the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of individuals and communities. Home to one of America’s first steel mills, Braddock now has a population below 2,500 and has been declared a “distressed municipality. read more...

Louise Nevelson: The 70s
at L & M Arts, Los Angeles
Venice - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mar 22, 13 - May 11, 13

L&M Arts is pleased to present Louise Nevelson: The 70s, an in depth look at a diverse and defining decade of work by the woman deemed the “Grande Dame of Contemporary Sculpture.” This extensive exhibition will include over thirty works described by the artist at the time of their making to be about the now, which have since matured over the past three decades to take on new and evolved relevancy. read more...

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness
at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Mar 21, 13 - Jun 09, 13

Over the past century, a period of unprecedented technological change and global social upheaval, once agreed-upon beliefs, or “truths,” have been cast into doubt, changing and shaping our understanding and experience of reality. More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness features work by 28 of today's most accomplished and promising international artists, including Ai Weiwei, Vik Muniz and Thomas Demand, who explore our shifting experience of reality. read more...

1913: The Year of Modernism
at Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ, USA
Mar 23, 13 - Jun 23, 13

On the one hundredth anniversary of this watershed year, this exhibition will present the complexities of the modernist revolution in art and literature with a selection of prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, and periodicals from the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum and the Princeton University Library. Photographs of Parisian interiors and street views by Eugène Atget will be juxtaposed with a portrait of Jean Cocteau by Amedeo Modigliani, drawings by Marc Chagall and read more...

Joan Jonas & Gina Pane">Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane
at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Museum District - Houston, TX, USA
Mar 23, 13 - Jun 30, 13

Gina Pane at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston">Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane brings together a selection of works by two artists born a short time apart who are renowned for their foundational contributions to the field of performance art. Jonas and Pane were proto-feminist artists, working in New York and Paris respectively, who worked multidisciplinarily at a time when many of their peers focused their attentions on a single medium. read more...

Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Laure Prouvost
at Whitechapel Art Gallery
London, UK
Mar 20, 13 - Apr 07, 13

Laure Prouvost at Whitechapel Art Gallery"> Winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Laure Prouvost creates a two-part installation inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of Italy. Referencing a historical panorama, a large circular space within the Gallery is designed with a painted frieze and Roman columns. An inner chamber reveals a film that shows fragments of footage, from birds to women bathing in waterfalls. read more...

Sterling Ruby: EXHM
at Hauser & Wirth, London, Savile Row
Mayfair - London, UK
Mar 22, 13 - May 04, 13

Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby’s interdisciplinary practice channels the conflicts between individual impulses and mechanisms of social control, American domination and decline, an engagement with irrationality and dysfunctional psychology, and its end result in upheaval. Ruby’s works act as formally charged markers and allegories for the burdens that plague contemporary existence. read more...

Steven Parrino: Armleder, Barré, Buren, Hantaï, Mosset, Parmentier, Toroni
at Gagosian Gallery, Paris
Paris, France
Mar 21, 13 - May 25, 13

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition that for the first time juxtaposes key works by American artist Steven Parrino with European counterparts spanning two generations: John Armleder, Martin Barré, Daniel Buren, Simon Hantaï, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and read more...

SP-Arte 2013
at SP Arte Eventos Culturais
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Apr 03, 13 - Apr 07, 13

SP-Arte is held in the infamous Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo (Biennial Pavilion), a 15,000 sq. marchitectural icon designed by Oscar Niemeyer. The fair showcases the multidisciplinary platforms of contemporary artist’s while also offering the best selAs Latin America’s largest city, São Paulo has positioned itself as one of the leading cultural cities on the continent.The fair offers several initiatives to promote and cultivate a cultural dialogue with its public. read more...

Art Dubai 2013
at Art Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Mar 20, 13 - Mar 23, 13

Over the last six years, Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), has become a cornerstone of the region’s booming contemporary art community. In 2012, Art Dubai welcomed 22,500 visitors – incThe seventh edition of Art Dubai takes place March 20-23, 2013, at Madinat Jumeirah.Art Dubai is part of Art Week, the umbrella initiative that includes Sikka Art Fair (organised by the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, and taking place in Al Bastakiya), Design Days Dubai, and a range of contemporary art and design events, major museum shows, and new gallery exhibitions and artists’ projects, taking place each March. read more...