Gladstone Gallery presents “The Mass Ornament” – a group exhibition curated by John Rasmussen.

It is hot in the city, very hot. So I imagine lots of skin at the Haunch of Venison opening tonight, which is perfect because my paintings are all skin. Haunch was nice enough to ask me to do a project along side Alexandra Grant, Doug Argue and Bill Fontana. Since the paintings are a peek into the most intimate of moments I figured why not also offer a peek into the often unseen activity and energy that ends up bottled in the finished works. All the chemist mixes on the table and splatters on the studio floor, the paintings living for awhile cozy, shoulder to “shoulder,” before their new roomier homes. The only studio witness, roaming, in form of trusted Labrador. The dreaded rolling of largest works (all went well thankfully). Paintings arrive at the gallery wrapped in a teasing gauzy haze of glassine and plastic. Propped against walls looking very much like the bodies they depict. The couple painted here are “putting on a show” so here are a few behind the scene shots.

A look at the work of Yinka Shonibare, whose work Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle will take its place on Trafalgar Square in May 2010.

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Seattle Art Museum opens up the very first Kurt Cobain show featuring mixed media works by a strong array of artists.

Metro Pictures presents three new films and large photographic collages by T. J. Wilcox.

All the scoop from the inside of the high-powered Richard Prince Gagosian opening and dinner of Tiffany Paintings.

Gavin Brown opens his newly acquired former butchery gallery space with a vegan, all tofu show by Jonathan Horowitz.

Swiss Institute presents historical paintings by Adolf Dietrich with recent works by Richard Phillips.

American artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor become known for reinvigorating the Renaissance craft of marquetry, or intarsia wood inlay.

‘Therapie Thank You’ is Josephine Pryde’s third exhibition with Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present an exhibition of new works by Andreas Gursky in Berlin.