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In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions in New York and Tokyo. Our selection includes painting, photography, installation, a festival celebrating Freud's 'Totem and Taboo' series of essays published in 1913 through performance, screenings and lectures and an exhibition focused on the Ruins of Washington D.C. 

Robert Therrien
at Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY, USA
Jul 03, 13 - Oct 27, 13

In summer 2013, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will present a concise survey of work by the Los Angeles–based artist Robert Therrien. Since the 1970s, Therrien (born 1947) has created work sourced from memory and the everyday—a snowman, a chapel, a coffin, a keyhole, a stack of plates—coaxing humble elements into surreal configurations through abstraction, repetition, color, and scale. In his practice, household shapes become unfamiliar, colors appear simple yet indistinguishably enigmatic, and references to known things are evoked and then deliberately blurred. read more...

A Sunday in the Mountains
at Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art
Soho - New York, NY, USA
Jul 03, 13 - Aug 25, 13

Valentin Carron, Gianni Motti, Fischli/Weiss, Fabrice Gygi, Elodie Pong, Philip Werner Sauber, Roman Signer, Jean Tinguely, Karlheinz Weinberger, read more...

Joshua Podoll & Carlos Bunga
at Christopher Grimes Gallery
Santa Monica - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jul 05, 13 - Sep 07, 13

Christopher Grimes Gallery is pleased present an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Joshua Podoll. In his previous body of work Podoll introduced gestural brushstrokes that expressed honesty through imperfection. With these new paintings Podoll places greater emphasis on drawing – marks are built up layer upon layer from a white ground: blurry airbrush lines, transparent washy brushstrokes and heavy impasto piles all interweave to create a tapestry of mark-making. Within this densely layered space Podoll paints austere floating objects that act as portals and serve to create tension between themselves and the layers of marks. read more...

Hung Liu: New Work
at Turner Carroll Gallery & Art Advisors
Santa Fe - Santa Fe, NM, USA
Jul 05, 13 - Aug 18, 13

Fresh from her solo retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California we proudly present a new body of work by Hung Liu. In this exhibition, Hung explores the way the washes and drips dissolve the photo-based images, suggesting the passage of memory into history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed – but often concealed – in the photographic instant. read more...

Ellen Harvey: The Alien’s Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C.
at Corcoran Gallery of Art
Downtown - Washington D.C., DC, USA
Jul 03, 13 - Oct 06, 13

Ellen Harvey’s new project is a glimpse into the world of the distant future.  Human civilization having long-since come to an end, the earth is populated now only by ruins, ripe for archeological interpretation by visitors from another planet. Most immediately striking to these alien historians are the remains of the classical and neo-classical buildings that seem to have taken root in every corner of the globe. read more...

Totemic Festival
at Freud Museum
London, UK
Jul 05, 13 - Jul 07, 13

Performance, screenings and lectures celebrating the centenary of Freud's 'Totem and Taboo'. The series of essays published in 1913 as Totem and Taboo captures Sigmund Freud at his most quintessentially Freudian: dazzlingly creative, theoretically brilliant, audacious, controversial and inflammatory. Although calculated to deliver a fatal blow to the theories of Carl Jung (by then his arch-rival), Freud also sought to demonstrate the value of psychoanalysis to issues in the social sciences of his time such as totemism, magical thinking, prohibition and kinship. read more...

Louise Thomas: Artifice of Paradise
at Bischoff/Weiss
London, UK
Jul 05, 13 - Aug 02, 13

Artifice of Paradise at BISCHOFF/WEISS traces the narrative of landscapes that Louise Thomas has visited in her paintings: 1930's Italy, lidos, Victorian hospitals, American resorts, abandoned estates, and now amusement parks. While attempting to capture fleeting moments of experience, Thomas questions the architectural structures she finds within their political and historical contexts. read more...

Manfred Willmann: Das Land
at Galerie Priska Pasquer
Cologne, Germany
Jul 06, 13 - Aug 31, 13

In his artistic works, Manfred Willmann explores the outer limits of perception. His highly saturated colour photographs do not document the time and space in which they were created, but rather are an expression of the photo artist’s subjective observations. In its first exhibition of the Austrian artist’s work, Galerie Priska Pasquer is presenting pieces from the cycle entitled “Das Land” (The Countryside), created between 1981 and 1993 during a time of increasing technologisation and multimedialisation. read more...

Tani Buncho: Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of his Birth
at Suntory Museum of Art
Minato-ku - Tokyo, Japan
Jul 03, 13 - Aug 25, 13

Tani Buncho, who was one of the preeminent practitioners of Kanto-region Nanga (literati painting), was influenced by the Shijo School, Tosa School and Western-style paintings, and thus created a wide variety of works. He was also one of the best connected of painters, counting the literati Kimura Kenkado among his acquaintances and Watanabe Kazan among his disciples. read more...

Greer Taylor / zero&one
at Melbourne Art Rooms, MARS
Port Melbourne, Australia
Jul 03, 13 - Jul 28, 13

The universe is an agglomeration of repeated elements: from leaves on a tree to breaths in a life, to the photons in a light wave. In our digital world ‘zero’ and ‘one’ are the repeated elements that describe all information. zero&one uses repetition and difference, together with simple shapes and transparency as a means to explore space, how we define space and how we exist within it. Repetition is also a means to explore change – from the space between the elements to the threshold between the states within a repetitive sequence: on/off, night/day, life/death… to evolution over time. read more...