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Still Life: 1970s Photorealism
at Nassau County Museum of Art
Roslyn, NY, USA
Jul 19, 14 - Nov 09, 14

Still Life displays works associated with Photorealism鈥攁 movement comprising painters who took photography as their subject and sculptors who recreated the human body with surprising accuracy. A significant trend in art of the 1970s, Photorealism has sometimes been described since then as a more mechanical offshoot of 1960s Pop art. However, the works in Still Life make a compelling argument that Photorealists captured life in the 1970s with a grittier honesty than has previously been acknowledged. read more...

Robert Figueroa: Tom, Dick, and Harry: The Everyday Man Series
at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art
Soho - New York, NY, USA
Jul 18, 14 - Sep 28, 14

Many people develop relationships through various forms of social media, (Facebook, LinkedIn, Grinder, etc.) often first "knowing" another only through a simple profile picture. We make instant decisions and judgments based on those pictures, processing attraction, indifference and at times, rejection. These profile pictures say a lot about how we want to be perceived and how we create new relationships, be them professional or personal. read more...

&
at Roberts & Tilton
Culver City - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jul 19, 14 - Aug 16, 14

Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present &, a cumulative group exhibition featuring collaborative works and practices. Artists and viewers will convene to participate in an aggregated exhibition via an inverted gallery format. Throughout the course of four weeks, the exhibition will develop over sequences of events, meetings, occurrences and production; transforming the gallery space to one that acts as an arena for dialogue and flux rather than a setting for static display.  This disparate space will function as the artists鈥� studio, a ground for assembly and venue for performance. read more...

Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets
at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Middlesbrough, UK
Jul 18, 14 - Oct 12, 14

mima is delighted to be the first ARTIST ROOMS Associate to show works by the American artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois this summer. This exhibition will reveal how Bourgeois, working in a variety of materials and scales, explores the mystery and beauty of human emotions. Her works explore issues around vulnerability and fear and often draw on her own life experience. read more...

Ivan Chermayeff: Cut and Paste
at De La Warr Pavilion
Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
Jul 19, 14 - Sep 14, 14

What Alan Fletcher, author of The Art of Looking Sideways, was to graphic design in Britain, his friend Ivan Chermayeff (b.London, 1932; lives in New York) has been to America since the late 1950s 鈥� someone able to think in simple and memorable images that compress layers of information and commentary. Like Fletcher, Chermayeff also makes little distinction between work and play. read more...

an audio guide through the hyperborean weeds & termite mounds of mars!
at Free Range
Perth, Australia
Jul 19, 14 - Jul 27, 14

You will experience the unexpected phenomena and marvels of far-off lands, obscured through time and space. Banding together, Andrew and David Wood, Isaac Clarke, Oliver Hull and Woody Mellor interpret these landscapes through the distorted lenses of myth and fiction! Be led by Oliver as he traces the mythical location of Hyperborea through it鈥檚 legacy in the scientific taxonomy of the Arctic Circle鈥檚 flora. Watch as The Wood Bros. read more...

Fiona Connor: Wallworks
at Monash University Museum of Art
Melbourne, Australia
Jul 18, 14 - Sep 20, 14

Quoting existing architectural languages in her installations and sculptures, Fiona Connor considers how context and display can condition our perception of an object or artwork. Her work also serves as an archaeology or social history of sites and environments. Recent projects have documented vernacular structures from outside the gallery, while others have explored the architecture and display mechanisms of the gallery / museum itself. read more...

H茅lio Oiticica: Propositions
at Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, Ireland
Jul 19, 14 - Oct 05, 14

IMMA presents a major exhibition of the work of the internationally renowned Brazilian artist H茅lio Oiticica (1937鈥�1980). Propositions will include a succinct selection of works by Oiticica, including vital examples from throughout his prolific career with a view to illuminating his art historical importance and relevance to contemporary practice. To mark the opening of the exhibition IMMA presents SUMMER RISING: The IMMA Festival running from Friday 18 (opening night of the exhibition) to Saturday 26 July. read more...

Desiring the Real. Austria Contemporary
at National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
Jul 19, 14 - Sep 28, 14

The exhibition acquaints Russian audience with contemporary art of Austria; it presents works of renowned masters and those of new generation 鈥� the most promising artists of the country. In their works the artists conduct artistic research of our reality and possible ways of its development; they use different genres 鈥� painting, drawing, photograph, video, sculpture and installation. For the participants of the exhibition 鈥渄esire鈥� is a driving force of artistic process, and reality is material from which the art is forged. read more...

Story Time: Was it?
at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv, Israel
Jul 18, 14 - Nov 01, 14

Six video installations relate six different stories, shifting between complete fabrication and partial truth, pushing the boundaries between a tale that was and one that never was, between legend, myth and memory. The artists use a variety of technological means and any possible ruse to create a semblance of a story which is then deconstructed into its parts, subverting the classical story frame. read more...