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In this article we bring you a diverse selection of unique art events to watch this week. The selection includes an exhibition inspired by a William Burrough novel, a Brooklyn-based  art collective retrospective, an exhibition that is taking place in a living room, photography exhibition documenting the social protest movements, modern culture everyday objects turned into a sculpture installation and a group exhibition dealing with mechanism through sculpture and video. 

Junkies' Promises
at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 27th Street
New York, NY, USA
Jun 27, 13 - Aug 16, 13

Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present Junkies’ Promises a group exhibition curated by gallery artist Ivan Navarro, on view from 27 June – 16 August, 2013 at 293 Tenth Avenue and 515 27th Street in New York. The show is inspired by William S. read more...

The Bruce High Quality Foundation: Ode to Joy, 2001–2013
at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn - New York, NY, USA
Jun 28, 13 - Sep 22, 13

The Bruce High Quality Foundation: Ode to Joy, 2001–2013 is a retrospective of over fifty works by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a Brooklyn-based art collective whose production includes subversive and often humorous installation art, live performance, film, and social sculpture. Taking its name from the fictional artist Bruce High Quality, who supposedly perished on September 11, 2001, the Foundation views 9/11 as a seminal moment in contemporary history; the ensuing wars and economic and cultural shifts are recurring concerns. read more...

Along the Road: Paintings of the Highwaymen
at The Vero Beach Museum of Art
Vero Beach, FL, USA
Jun 29, 13 - Sep 28, 13

The Highwaymen were a legendary group of young black painters, largely self-taught, who painted colorful Florida scenes during the late 1950s, through the 1960s and into the 1970s. Selling their paintings from the trunks of their cars, the HighwaymenS. Highway 1 around Fort Pierce. read more...

Lee Mingwei: A Quartet and A Living Room
at Chinese Arts Centre
Manchester, UK
Jun 28, 13 - Aug 17, 13

Born in Taiwan and currently living in New York City, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, exploring issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness. Lee's projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction, and take on different forms depending on the participants. Time is central to this process, as Lee's installations often change during the course of an exhibition. read more...

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at Figge von Rosen Galerie, Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Jun 29, 13 - Aug 10, 13

We are pleased to announce the opening of Sockel, Anna Malagrida's first solo exhibition at the Berlin gallery on June 28, 2013 at 7 pm. In her exhibition, Malagrida shows photographs of her project Los muros hablaron (The Walls Spoke), in which she documents the social protest movements, like Movimiento 15M and Indignados, which occured in Spain since May 2011. Starting point of this project were blogs in the internet, which showed locations in Barcelona or Madrid where the manifestations took place. read more...

Akram Zaatari: The End of Time
at Kurimanzutto
Mexico City, Mexico
Jun 28, 13 - Sep 13, 13

After his solo exhibition in 2012 at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) at UNAM, Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari is presenting his second exhibition, The End of Time, in Mexico City at kurimanzutto. The exhibition shows works which, informed by his ongoing research on vernacular Middle Eastern photography, explore aspects of representation, identity, intimacy, and desire and how they are ultimately recorded. read more...

Teppei Kaneuji: Towering Something
at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Beijing, China
Jun 28, 13 - Aug 25, 13

In “Towering Something,” Kaneuji gathers icons of modern culture and everyday objects—hula hoops, shopping carts, plastic dinosaurs, Doraemon—and assembles them into sculptural and cut-paper collages, resulting in Frankenstein sculptures that explore a separation of purpose and form. “White discharge,” or plastic resin, is poured over the mass of objects and then drips down to cover some pieces entirely, harden into stalactites, and pool on the ground. read more...

Terms & Conditions
at Singapore Art Museum
Singapore, Singapore
Jun 28, 13 - Sep 08, 13

The phrase “terms & conditions” often refers to the fixed set of guidelines at the basis of any official contract or agreement. While these extensive specifications are sometimes overlooked in everyday practice, their implementation can powerfully dictate the representation and interaction between people, entities and countries, as well as set parameters that appear rigid over time. Yet, taken apart, the words “terms” and “conditions” convey fluid and precarious concepts that can, in actuality, be continually negotiated and modified. read more...

Israel
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv, Israel
Jun 28, 13 - Sep 28, 13

 A group exhibition dealing with the political, mystical and poetic boundaries of mechanism through sculpture and video. Most of the works share a low-tech esthetics, using old objects and useless spare parts to create kinetic sculptural environments and hybrid-mechanical “home-made” objects that cause disruption and destruction. A sense of invention and humorous nonsense imbues the works, with fantasy bordering on calamity. read more...

Helen Johnson
at Sutton Gallery
Fitzroy, Australia
Jun 27, 13 - Jul 27, 13

Painting serves as a primary departure point for my practice, a set of tools that work beyond language with which to ask questions or encircle issues that inform our cultural identity from a place beyond language. Painting is interesting to me as a vehicle for cultural reflection: because it is loaded, neurotic, problematised, a market force, scattered, essentialised and recomplexified, able to operate simultaneously within and beyond itself, able to be beautiful and horrible at the same time. read more...