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In this article we bring you a diverse selection of unique art events to watch this week. The selection includes a sculptural installation maze, a vintage photography exhibition, Cuban video art, interactive puppet installation, and a survey exhibition of the British painter Patrick Caulfield. 

Donna Dennis: Coney Night Maze
at Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College
Purchase, NY, USA
Jun 07, 13 - Sep 15, 13

One of the most popular New York City icons is the Coney Island Cyclone, a 1927 landmark wooden rollercoaster that has attracted millions of visitors and provided the backdrop for hundreds of events. It also is the inspiration for Coney Night Maze, a new, complex, sculptural installation, 13 years in the making, by Donna Dennis, that includes an ascending rollercoaster-like track which weaves in and out of the darkness. read more...

Lucien Samaha: The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986
at Lombard-Freid Projects
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Jun 06, 13 - Aug 02, 13

Lombard Freid Gallery is pleased to present New York-based photographer Lucien Samaha’s The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Samaha has been a photographer since high school and has obsessively documented his personal and professional life for over 40 years, producing a rich, highly autobiographical body of work. read more...

Alexis Smith: Slice of Life
at Honor Fraser Gallery
Culver City - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jun 08, 13 - Jul 27, 13

Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to announce Los Angeles based artist Alexis Smith's first solo exhibition at the gallery, Slice of Life, from June 8 – July 27, 2013.  Slice of Life is a focused exploration of Alexis Smith's work as portraiture, conjuring people both real and imagined from the material and linguistic cast-offs of American culture. The exhibition includes the iconic collage works that have been her signature for the past five decades, among them several recently completed pieces, and the landmark multimedia installation Past Lives, a poignant 1989 collaboration with writer Amy Gerstler. read more...

Occupying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban Video Art (1990-2010)
at University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
Tampa, FL, USA
Jun 07, 13 - Aug 03, 13

This exhibition of videos by Cuban artists working worldwide invites contemplation of what it means to occupy (a home, a plot of land, a city, a society…) and the relationship between occupying and building and the concept of the work of art in today’s global culture. Three interconnected segments pose the question of how to reinvent a language for imagining what is public, private and intimate in a culture like Cuba’s, where civil society has been supplanted by the State. read more...

Wayne White: HALO AMOK
at Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Jun 06, 13 - Sep 01, 13

HALO AMOK an interactive puppet installation by Wayne White, is the sixth installment of the New Frontiers Series for Contemporary Art. Wayne White considers himself an “artistic shape shifter.” He has had a remarkably diverse career working as a cartoonist, illustrator, animator, puppet designer, production designer for film and television, performer, and visual artist. read more...

Patrick Caulfield
at Tate Britain
Millbank - London, UK
Jun 05, 13 - Sep 01, 13

Tate Britain presents a survey exhibition of the celebrated British painter, Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005).  From the 1960s, Caulfield  has been known for his iconic and vibrant paintings of modern life that reinvigorated traditional artistic genres such as the still life. Celebrating the artist’s mastery of colour, graphic elegance as well as his wit, this exhibition will offer the chance to reassess his influences and the legacy of his approach to painting. read more...

Nilbar Güre艧: Nilbar Wien-NA
at Galerie Martin Janda
Vienna, Austria
Jun 07, 13 - Jul 27, 13

Nilbar Güres offers her observers seemingly direct access that takes on varyingly playful, poetic or even ironic characteristics. However, hidden in the background are social-political constructs that can coalesce to depict individual destinies. In her large-format photographs, Güre艧 investigates, for example, the meaning of homosexual love in a society dominated by patriarchal structures (Ayse loves Fatma, 2011), or the narrowly apportioned, clearly defined societal framework for women (Overhead, 2010), and focuses on gender and cultural identities. read more...

Claudia Comte: If I were a rabbit, where would I keep my gloves?
at BolteLang
Zürich, Switzerland
Jun 08, 13 - Jul 20, 13

Claudia Comte creates environments where wall paintings or burnt panels enter into dialogue with her sculptures, video projections add multiple dimensions to the white cube, or colourful objects stand out against monochrome backgrounds. The idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, adapted into visual arts by Bauhaus, allows Comte to find her inspiration in nature, architecture, popular culture and to then transform these ideas into modernist spaces where her sculptures stand like trees in geometric landscapes. Always inspired by her surroundings, site-specificity plays an important role in the creative process. read more...

Nobuhiro Shimura: Slow Sculpture
at Yuka Tsuruno Gallery
Koto-ku - Tokyo, Japan
Jun 08, 13 - Jul 06, 13

YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY is pleased to announce Slow Sculpture, its first solo exhibition by Nobuhiro Shimura from June 8 to July 8. Nobuhiro Shimura, who has made the act of “casting light” a personal theme, has previously shown installation of video projection. This installation consists of live images of familiar motifs and landscape projected on to particular places and materials, transforming the meaning of the space in which the work has been installed. read more...

Hans-Peter Feldmann: Shadowplay
at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Jun 04, 13 - Sep 29, 13

Shadowplay, a large-scale installation by contemporary German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann, uses shadows to transform simple, everyday objects into magical figures in an imaginary world on the gallery walls. A variety of toys, figurines, and other items whirl on rotating pedestals, illuminated by spotlights in the dark space, creating a fascinating theater of moving shadows. read more...