The largest exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein to date will make its first stop at the Art Institute of Chicago from May 22 through September 3rd. More than 160 works will be on display, including his iconic Pop Art comic strip paintings and his more unusual works of landscapes, ink paintings, and nudes.
Little known outside of his native Sweden, Christer Strömholm‘s strongest body of work is now on exhibition at New York City’s International Center of Photography. Les Amies de Place Blanche, is his documentation of Parisian transexuals in the 1960′s. These intimate portraits taken in the city’s red-light district will be on view from May 18 through September 2nd.
Terry Smith’s photographic essay, America’s Finest Kids, will be on display at drkrm from June 2nd through June 30th in Los Angeles. The exhibition contains gritty, raw, and powerfully provocative images captured over a 15 year period, of the youth of Southern California. For those of you who can’t make the show, the book is available in print and in digital form.
Along with legendary designer and iconoclast Elsa Schiaparelli, Miuccia Prada will show in a joint retrospective at The Met’s Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations. The exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic Italian designers to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. The show will run through August 19, 2012. See Anna Wintour promote the show on The Colbert Report after the jump!
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This one is for all you hipsters with smart phones! ADR Studio has created a replacement for our beloved Polaroid and made taking pictures on Instagram tangible with this sleek prototype. If you’re interested in seeing this fantasy become a reality, help fund them on Indiegogo. Now that Facebook has bought Instagram for $1 Billion, I wonder if Zuckerberg will have any say on this…
Previously shown in Dallas Contemporary‘s largest space, one of Jennifer Rubell‘s Nutcrackers makes its way into Frieze Art Fair New York this year. A demonstration of the mannequin nutcracker, entitled ‘Lea L,’ can be seen at the jump by PAPER Magazine’s Gary Pini.
Eternal hipster Drew Barrymore teamed up with street artist Shepard Fairey’s creative agency, Number One, to create the label for her new business: Barrymore Pinot Grigio. Fairey is no stranger to advertisement; he is well recognized world wide for his street art campaign OBEY.
Anthony Spinello presents Perfect Lovers, a group exhibition at White Box, New York — aFrieze special project. Inspired by the writings of modern psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Perfect Lovers investigates the realms of human relationships, mortality and time’s inevitable flow. The show includes work by Layet Johnson, Sinisa Kukec, Ruben Millares, Federico Nessi, Manny Prieres, Bert Rodriguez, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Frances Trombly, Naama Tsabar, Agustina Woodgate and Antonia Wright.
