Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to invite you to the upcoming group show in Mexico City during MACO 2012

Domestic Affairs/Asuntos domesticos, a show feating the work of (among others) ; Francis Alÿs, Teresa Margolles, Melanie Smith, Javier Téllez, Tercerunquinto. The show is curated by Curated by Tatiana Cuevas and taes place during MACO 2012 in Mecico City from April 17-22, 2012. Hours are from 10 a.m until 6 p.m. or by appointment.

The Opening will be held from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 17 with brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Eligio Ancona 171, Santa María La Ribera, Mexico City. Contact the gallery for details.

For those of you in London from October 6-10 (or 6-10 October for you Europeans), be sure to check out Art London.

Amongst the massive amount of art to be found will be Catto Gallery. Check them out at Booth 51.

The show opens at 11 am every day. Closes at 8:30 pm (excepting Friday & Saturday when it closes at 8 pm).

In addition to being the Art Fair for Modern and Contemporary art in Los Angeles, Art Platform  hosts a number of special programs during their fair. Art Platform takes place from September 30 to October 3, 2011.

This year’s special programs are, Open Platform  Speaker Series, Installations, Artillery Lounge, Artillery Magazine Video Lounge, CO/Lab, BOOM/MFA Exhibit and the most important, the Market Café Bar.

Special Programs

Open Platform is a curated series of area collectors, gallerists, museum directors, curators, scholars and critic. Aandrea Stang, Senior Education Program Manager for The Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angles is organizing the program. Topics include some fascinating ones; video artists working under the massive shadow of Hollywood, the impact of art in Los Angeles in the past 35 years, performance art in Los Angeles and more.

Installation, Art Platform Los Angeles’ Concourse projects space will be home to a series of projects by area galleries and non profits. This are, L.A. Mart Lobby, will also have sculpture projects by leading contemporary artists.


Artillery Lounge (from the folks at Artillary Magazine; Killer Text On Art), The magazine is celebrating its fifth anniversary. This loung will be on the concourse level and consist of a happy hout bar, liver performances, cutting edge videos and, a place to take a breather.

Artillary Magazine Video Lounge, curated by Paul Young of Young Projects. Young Projects was founded to help alter perception—specifically your perception (and mine I suppose) of moving imagery. They want to challenge the traditions put in place by film and television and creat a concrete art form like painting, sculpture and photography. This venue is for such experimental film artists to explore their medium.

Co/Lab, is a joining of 19 dnon-profit art groups. This is their first year at Art Platform-Los Angeles. This is an opportunity for those visiting Art Platform to survey Los Angeles art scene and its emerging artists

BOOM/MFA Exhibition is collection of 40 MFA students and recent graduates of Southern California art schools. The space is 7000 square feet and includes numerous different mediums. The exhibition was curated by Ali Subotnick, curater of the Hammer Museum.

Chicago’s Judy A. Saslow Gallery is heading to SOFA West Santa Fe to exhibit at the Inuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art.

Artists to be included are; Henry Darger, Michel Nedjar,  Bill Traylor, Mr. Imagination, Gerard Sendrey, Christine Sefolosha, Joseph Yoakum, Edmond Engel, Carlo Zinelli and others.

The fair runs from August 4-7th with a opening night preview gala on August 3. The daily hours are from noon to 6 p.m.

Art Platform is a modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles. This year they have an iconic image as their “visual identity.” Photographer, Catherine Opie, has agreed to let them use images from her Freeways series.

The festival is all about the LA art scene with an opening preview, Friday, September 30, 2011. General admission is from October 1 to October 3, 2011. For more info head HERE.

Opie’s  Untitled #1 from  the Freeway series, 1994 is a  Platinum print, 2-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches. It is an edition of five and is used courtesy of Regen Projects. Freeways is Opie’s celebration of those L.A. monuments, the freeways. These images will be part of the printed material and the catalog.

Timothy Yarger Fine Art will be at Art Aspen and at the VIP Opening preview Party. If you are in the area be sure to check out their artists. They are always worth a look, at the very least. You can also break out the checkbook (do people still use checkbooks?)
Art Aspen is August 6 through the 8th.

The MDW Fair is coming soon to Chicago (the week before Artopolis) The fair features galleries, curatorial projects, media organizations and publishers with 25,000 square feet to show their wares. There is also a 8,000 square feet for a sculpture garden featuring work of local artists.

The MDW Fair takes place in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago on April 23 and 24th  at the Geolofts, 3636 S. Iron Street. The hours are Saturday from 1 pm to 10 pm and Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm. For more information head to www.mdwfair.org.

The fair is the product of local groups Threewalls, Roots and Culture and Public Media Institute.

We found out about it via Lloyd Dobler Gallery. Who are exhibiting new works by a number of artists, including; Carl Baratta, James Kao, Charles Mahaffee, Eric Ramos Guerrero and Sebastian Vallejo. They will be at the fair in booth # 207.

Cynthia Corbett Gallery is coming to Art Chicago 2011. Among the works to be shown are some by the brilliant Tom Leighton. His works have to be seen in person to be appreciated. Yes, this is always true but it is even more true in this case.

They will be at Booth 12–136.

Cernuda Arte is coming to Chicago for Art Chicago. They will be at Booth 12-335/337. Cernuda will have a variety of work on hand including work by the likes of Wilfredo Lam and Victor Manuel Garcia. The works of these two modern masters will not be all they have on hand. Works by contemporary artists will be included. Among these will be works by;

Gina Pellón, Alfredo Sosabravo, Flora Fong, Vicente Hernández, Miguel Florido,  Sandro De La Rosa, David Rodríguez, Li Domínguez Fong, Joel Besmar, Ramón Vázquez, Irina Elén González, Giosvany Echevarría, Dayron Gonzálezand more.

There is an opening preview (via invitation only).

Otherwise hours are--

Friday, April 29 and Saturday, May 30, 2011   11a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday,  May 1, 2011   11a.m. – 6 p.m.
Monday,  May 2, 2011  11a.m. – 3 p.m.

The opening reception for Art Center South Florida's Annual Raffle is tomorrow, Saturday April 0 from 7 to 10 p.m.The exhibit will be on display until May 8. There will be a closing reception which will include the drawing from 7 to 10 p.m. May 7th.

As you probably read there will be 40 pieces by Art Center Artists on display. for more information head to www.artcentersf.org.

Support Art Center, buy a ticket, attend the event.