bianca casady

Daisy Chain, Bianca Casady's show at Cheim & Read, addresses "ideas of gender and race, especially as they are played out in prison."

stan vanderbeek

Writings, Drawings and Collages, Stan VanDerBeek's show at American Contemporary, "concerns the immediate use of motion pictures, or expanded cinema, as a tool for world communication."

john houck

John Houck's show at Kansas "explores how desire functions in a world that is exponentially filled with highly repetitive technical drives."

century of the child

Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, at the MoMA, "is the first large-scale overview of the modernist preoccupation with children and childhood as a paradigm for progressive design thinking."

2012 kamikaze exhibits

PØST Gallery in Los Angeles has been hosting a month of "Kamikaze" exhibits, with a new show every day throughout July.

alex gingrow

Alex Gingrow's show at Mike Weiss sounds kind of interesting, in a William Powhida sort of way.

screw you

Screw You, at Susan Inglett, "shines a light on the intersection of counterculture publishing, tabloid pornography and the art world which occurred in the creatively fertile years of the late 1960s and early 1970s."

piping down the valleys wild

Piping Down the Valleys Wild, Stux's summer show, "presents a timely update on the discussion of the sustainability of innocence in the contemporary world."

yayoi kusama

Yayoi Kusama's retrospective at the Whitney will run through the end of September.

drawing center

The Drawing Center, which is currently undergoing a $10 million expansion that will add 50% more public space, has delayed its re-opening until November.

levitated mass

"Levitated Mass," Michael Heizer's $10-million environmental sculpture on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, recently made its long-awaited debut.

nyfa

NYFA recently announced its 2012 Artists' Fellowship Awardees.

gallery 2

Andrea Rosen will be opening a new space, Gallery 2, in Fall 2012, also located on West 24th Street.

foodie fundraiser

Dustin Yellin will help do his part to protect this great nation from the Tea Party by hosting a "Foodie Fundraiser" on July 17. Tickets are $125 and will include fare from Vinegar Hill House, Fort Defiance, The Good Fork and Frankies Sputino, with musical guest Adam Green.

residency unlimited

Residency Unlimited's "Fun Raiser" will take place on July 22 from 4:00-8:00PM.

arrive wherever you can

Rooster Gallery presents Arrive Wherever You Can, a group exhibition featuring work from the Rhode Island School of Design MFA Sculpture Department.

sophie blackall

Award-winning artist Sophie Blackall will give a presentation about her work as an illustrator on July 28 at 6:00PM at the Met's Uris Center for Education.

art hamptons

ArtHamptons runs July 12 - July 15. I am exhibiting with the London based gallery Arch 402.

real fine arts

Real Fine Arts, on Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn, is a gallery to watch.

painting in space

Painting in Space, at Luhring Augustine, "includes painting, sculpture, and works that lie somewhere in-between."

stretching painting

Galerie Lelong presents Stretching Painting, "an exhibition featuring the work of ten artists who engage "supporting" elements of painting, such as the frame, the wall, stretchers and hanging devices, as critical components of their work."

everyday abstract

Everyday Abstract - Abstract Everyday, curated by Matthew Higgs for James Cohan, "considers the complex entanglements between non-representational art and everyday life."

context message

Context Message, at Zach Feur, is "informally assembled in concert with and in resistance to some of the recent theorizations of contemporary painting."

the big picture

The Big Picture, at Sikkema Jenkins, features "paintings by eight contemporary artists who predominately work in small or modest scale."

alighiero boetti

Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, at the MoMA, spans "Boetti’s entire career, beginning with his sculptural works, or objects as he preferred to call them, comprised of everyday materials including wood, cardboard, and aluminum."

summertime salon 2012

SUMMERTIME Salon 2012, at Robin Rice, "immerses the viewer in the mood of the season with its breezy and joyful tone fused with a contemporary edge."