AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCES | 
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 6 PM

NATHANIEL MELLORS | Live Music
LINDA FRANKE | PROOF OF LIFE

The Box LA presents an evening of performances with current exhibiting artists Nathaniel Mellors and Linda Franke. 

Nathaniel Mellors will perform a selection of new music related to his ongoing exhibition Songs In the Key of Mard’ followed by the debut of a new work by Linda Franke with co-performers Matt Savitsky (@mintymedia) & Ryat Yezbick (@ryat_yezbick) alongside remote-controlled chairs and apparatuses. Doors will open at 6PM with performances beginning at 6:30PM,

Artist Walkthrough 
with Barbara T. Smith, Nancy Buchanan, and Hal Glicksman
"Treasures"
featuring works by Chris Burden, James Rosenquist, Kim Jones, and more!
Thursday, May 11, 2023
6 PM 
at The Box LA

Please join us for the Final Week of Barbara T. Smith with Friends "Treasures". 

With the work of over 20 artists including Smith, "Treasures" offers a rare glimpse into an artist's practice of holding and discarding. With some works stored over 50 years, "Treasures" is a dedication to the safeguarding of Smith's work and her legacy as revealed through the exchanges, ephemera, and work of her friends such as Chris Burden, James Rosenquist, Kim Jones, and others part of this seminal exhibition. Vitrines in the space will be open for this intimate walkthrough. 

Please join us at 6PM, May 11. No RSVP necessary.  

It is with much excitement that The Box announces our partnership with Pieter Performance Space! Our partnership with Pieter will allow them to host a year of new, in-person programming, including:

Residencies at Pieter Parking Space

Located outdoors in The Box’s gated and spacious parking lot, with design and construction by Pieter Community member John Emison, and a materials donation from NAVEL, Pieter is building a wheelchair-accessible, sprung wooden dance platform with multiple potential configurations called Pieter Parking Space.

The first two artists in residence will be our 2020 Pieter Dancemaker Grantees: Ana María Alvarez and Stacy Dawson Stearns.

The remaining four residency slots, which will each include public programming opportunities, will be open to local movement artists via a public application and committee-review process. Stay tuned next month for more information regarding what is included and how to apply for a residency at Pieter Parking Space!

Pieter Parking Space Resident Application

★ Applications are due by Friday, October 15 at 11:59pm PST ★
If you have any questions or access needs, please contact pieterpasd@gmail.com!

Knees, Schools, Urges: An exhibition uplifting Los Angeles’s Dance History, Curated by Jennie MaryTai Liu

Opening June 2022

With support from the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Pieter, in partnership with The Box gallery, is proud to present Knees, Schools, Urges opening in June, 2022. This exhibition will feature new works from local artists, lecture and panel events, and archival ephemera that address the entwined history of modern dance and settler colonialism, appropriative practices in American dance making from its origins, and the work that Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, Queer + Trans* + feminist dancers have done in the field. Visitors to the exhibition will have an opportunity to reflect on the embodied transmission of knowledge and the potentialities of dance in future-making/world-building.

Please stay in touch as we share more details on upcoming programs and artist opportunities hosted by our partnership with Pieter Performance Space!

Appointments are no longer required to visit the gallery. We are open to the public Wednesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) 
public conversation Compassion & Self-Deception
Thursday, July 1, 2021
6:30 PM – 8 PM
at The Box LA

The July 1 conversation with Pastor Cue Jn-Marie, Aryen Cohen, Matt Harper, and Robby Herbst, moderated by UCR Professor of religious studies, Michael Scott Alexander, will be an opportunity dialogue further about the moral crises of a city (ours) that votes to create housing for homeless people –and then doesn’t want any of it built anywhere near them: whether that be permanent housing, or temporary housing, and contradiction induced stasis --- what perpetuates it and how to undo it.

Read more here. 

Leigh Ledare Zürich on view at Office Baroque March 20 – April 17, 2021

Following the recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic, The Box will be temporarily closed to the public starting Sunday, March 15th. 

Julien Bismuth's forthcoming exhibition, Scene, scheduled to open March 28, is postponed until further notice. 

The gallery will be extending Johanna Went: Passion Container, open by appointment only, beginning Wednesday, March 18. Please be in touch via email (info@theboxla.com) if you would like to see the show and we will try to accommodate your request as best we can.

Stay healthy, stay safe, and we look forward to reconnecting with our creative community as soon as possible. 

Thursday, January 30, 8pm
Friday, January 31, 8pm
Saturday, February 1, 8pm

Choreographer Melinda Ring returns to Danspace Project with the all-new Strange Engagements, a highly physical, exuberant, and uninhibited work made for, and in collaboration with, an extraordinary group of dancers: Laurel Atwell, Talya Epstein, Paul Hamilton, Sam Kim, and Rainey White. Constructed from the dancers’ improvisations — research in which Ring asked them to act as a conduit channeling complex shared rhythms and inner music — this work is driven from within.

The dancers plunge into private combinations, often with separate agendas, while flashes of form and pattern illuminate the deliberateness of the polyrhythmic chaos. Like Ring’s X (2010), which premiered 10 years ago at Danspace Project, Strange Engagements is deeply musical, yet danced almost completely in silence — its unheard anthem loud and driving.

“The thrill of Strange Engagements is in watching the performers navigate its considerable performative demands,” writes Ring. “What I want to say is that this dance is going to be nuts, strong and rhythmic, monstrously intricate. They are going to dance the heck out of it.”

Created by: Melinda Ring in collaboration with Performers: Laurel Atwell, Talya Epstein, Paul Hamilton, Sam Kim, and Rainey White

Sarah Conaway is included in the traveling exhibition "100 Sculptures" 

100 SCULPTURES

January 18 - February 16, 2020

Opening: January 18, 2020, 6 - 9 pm

@ No Gallery - 1115 South La Brea Ave. - Los Angeles, CA 90036

Judith Bernstein and Naotaka Hiro are featured in Seven Stations: Selections from MOCA's Collection on view at MOCA Los Angeles.

Seven Stations: Selections from MOCA's Collection is organized by Mia Locks and Bennett Simpson, with Karlyn Olvido. 

The Box will be closed for the holidays December 22, 2019 – January 1, 2020 and will be open by appointment only during this time. To make an appointment, email info@theboxla.com. 

Regular gallery hours (Wed. to Sat., 12 PM to 6 PM) will resume on Friday, January 3, 2020.

Happy Holidays!

Ursula Reuter Christiansen / Henning Christiansen THEY WON'T SURVIVE WITHOUT THE BIRD SONGS has been extended through January 11, 2020. 

Join us for a walkthrough of Ursula Reuter Christiansen / Henning Christiansen 'THEY WON'T SURVIVE WITHOUT THE BIRD SONGS' with curator Chiara Giovando on Saturday, December 14 at 4 PM. Free and open to the public 

The Box will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday 11/28 and Friday 11/29. 

VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek

September 20, 2019 – January 4, 2020

Curated by Sara VanDerBeek and Chelsea Spengemann

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina

details

Stan VanDerBeek participating in 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art

Septmeber 12 - December 1, 2019

details

Judith Bernstein featured in 

UNITED BY AIDS — AN EXHIBITION ABOUT LOSS, REMEMBRANCE, ACTIVISM AND ART IN RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS
August 31 – November 10, 2019

at Migros Museum Zurich, Switzerland

Judith Bernstein has work featured in

Masculinity
A cooperation between Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

September 1–November 24, 2019 

www.bonner-kunstverein.de 
www.koelnischerkunstverein.de 
www.kunstverein-duesseldorf.de 

Subterranean & Wanderer 

September 7 – October 13, 2019

Brennan & Griffin, New York

details 

Naotaka Hiro is featured in the group exhibition The Flat Files on view at The Pit, Los Angeles. 

Open to the public August 4 - 10, and by appointment through August 25, 2019. 

Judith Bernstein
Blue Balls
June 7 - July 13, 2019
Opening reception: Sat. June 8, 6PM-8PM

Simone Forti

May 17 - July 7, 2019

Kunsthausbaselland

Visit us at Frieze New York

Booth C35

May 2 - 5, preview May 1, 2019

Howard Fried has a video featured in
Master of Laurels 
May 10 - June 21, 2019
at Rumpelstiltskin, Brooklyn, NY

Leigh Ledare is featured in the group exhibition Straying from the Line

April 13 – July 28, 2019

Opening: Friday, April 12 at 6pm

at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

details here

Miho Dohi
Naotaka Hiro
Wataru Tominaga

April 13 – May 25, 2019
Reception: Saturday, April 13, 6 – 9 pm

details here

Simone Forti is in The Body Electric

March 30 - July 21, 2019

at the Walker Art Center

The Aalto Natives

March 21 - August 11, 2019

Borås Konstmuseum, Sweeden

more here

Nathaniel Mellors & Erkka Nissinen

Bad Mantra

February 1 - 24, 2019

Matt's Gallery, London, UK

Julien Bismuth

Stücke

Jan. 26 - March 9, 2019

Galerie Emanuel Layr

Vienna, Austria

Sarah Conaway Head of a Woman has been extended through Saturday, January 19, 2019. 

Howard Fried is included in the group exhibition Collecting On The Edge at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art on the Utah State University campus in Logan, Utah. 

The exhibition is on view January 17 - May 4, 2019. 

more here

The Box will be closed December 23rd - 26th. 

We will resume our regular hours (Wednesday - Saturday, 12 PM - 6 PM) on Thursday, December 27th.

Happy Mind - Natural High

Misako & Rosen

July 18 - August 26, 2018

Kaoru Arima / Cristina Tufiño / Naotaka Hiro / Lee Lozano / Stephen G Rhodes / Soshiro Matsubara

Simone Forti is featured in 3D: Double Vision at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

On view July 15 - March 31, 2019. 

Details here.

Pond and Waterfall, co-organized with Julia Trotta

Opening Saturday, July 14, 6PM - 8PM

The Gallery @ Micahel's 

Santa Monica, CA

Fia Backström, Lea Cetera, Xavier Cha, Jay DeFeo, Violet Dennison, R. M. Fischer, Ray Hamilton, Barbara Hammer, Maren Hassinger, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Madeline Hollander, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Zoe Leonard, Nancy Lupo, Gloria Maximo, K.r.m. Mooney, Ulrike Müller, Barbara T. Smith, Patrick Staff, Carrie Yamaoka, and Amy Yao

A Conversation on Artists' Books: Barbara T. Smith and Andrea Bowers

Getty Center

Friday, July 20, 2018 at 7 PM

Museum Lecture Hall

Free - tickets & information here

Ambient synonymy

June 30 - October 14, 2018

FRAC (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain)

details here

Natura Naturans
June 26 - August 20, 2018
Lucas Arruda, Alvaro Barrington, Julien Bismuth, Paloma Bosquê,
Adriano Costa, Sonia Gomes, Lorenzato, Daniel Steegmann Marangané,
Solange Pessoa, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Kishio Suga


Mendes Wood DM New York
60 East 66th Street, 2nd floor
New York, United States

Zillionaires Against Humanity: Sabotaging the Skid Row Neighborhood Council on view through June 30 at the Skid Row History Museum and Archive.

More info here.

Sarah Conaway is featured in Fictive Kin with Annette Kelm and Kim Schoen, curated by Kathryn Poindexter. The exhibition is on view at the Culver Center of the Arts, UC Riverside February 24 - May 6, 2018.

More info here.

Congratulations to Naotaka Hiro & the 31 other artists participating in The Hammer Museum’s fourth iteration of Made in L.A. 2018!

The exhibition will be on view June 3 - September 2, 2018. 

Wally Hedrick is featured in the group exhibition Walking Point on view at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York February 16 - March 10, 2018. 

More info here. 

Opening Thursday, January 18, 2018

more here. 

Alan Shields Project

January 5 - February 17, 2018

Lisa Alvarado, Cheryl Donegan, Aiko Hachisuka, Channing Hansen, Naotaka Hiro, Alan Shields, Martha Tuttle, B. Wurtz

more here. 

On view through Saturday, January 20, 2018. 

more here. 

Barbara T. Smith is in the group exhibition Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art from the Whitney’s Collection, 1966 – 1986 at the Whitney Museum of American Art opening November 17, 2017.

details here

Nathaniel Mellors: Progressive Rocks

February 6 - April 15, 2018

New Museum

New York

details here

Robert Mallary

Reliefs 1957 - 1961

November 1 - December 1, 2017

The Mayor Gallery

December 15, 2017 - April 15, 2018

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

Nathaniel Mellors Ourhouse Ep. -1: 'Time'  will screen at mother's tankstation limited on November 30, December 1 & 2 at 5 pm. The screenings are part of Being Infrastructural curated by Maeve Connolly, November 2 - December 16, 2017. 

details here. 

September 9 - December 31, 2017

Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series

Art Institute Chicago

Gallery 188

September 21-23, 2017
FURLA Series #01
Sala Fontana, Museo del Novecento, Milan

BORIS LURIE in Habana is a survey of work by Boris Lurie, curated by Joan Guaita and organized by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Boris Lurie Foundation. The exhibition is on view from September 22 - November 19, 2017. 

Judith Bernstein is featured in the group exhibition CUNT at Venus Over Los Angeles. The exhibition is on view July 15 - September 2, 2017. 

Adult Swim 

curated by Gerasimos Floratos

June 28 - August 4, 2017

Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK

details here

Apollo Magazine

By Ben Eastham

details here

Julien Bismuth is featured in the group exhibition at carriage trade, New York:

American Interior

April 27 - June 3, 2017

Richard Artschwager
David Baskin
Lawrence Berzon
Julien Bismuth
Richard Bosman
Barbara Ess
Terence Gower
Dorothea Lange
Louise Lawler
Sherrie Levine
Paul McCarthy
Gordon Parks
Heidi Schlatter
Claudia Sohrens
Steel Stillman

Karma International, Los Angeles

April 20 - May 20, 2017

56 Artillery Lane

April 21 - June 11, 2017

at Raven Row, London, UK

Modus Operandi

April 15 - July 15, 2017

Société in Brussels, Belgium 

A Different Way To Move: Minimalists, New York, 1960-1980

Featuring Simone Forti

April 7 - September 17, 2017

Carre D'Art-Musee D'Art Contemporain, Nimes, France

details here.

The Box would like to congratulate Leigh Ledare and Melinda Ring on receiving the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2017 Fellowship Awards. 

Details here. 

Watch the youtube video of Huddle here, and details of the full event on their website. 

Check our Vimeo page to view past panel discussions, events, and exhibition walkthroughs, including the recently-closed Judith Bernstein exhibition 'Cock in the Box' here.

Rick Potts has a solo exhibition at Greenspon gallery in New York. 

March 4 - April 15, 2017

Watch the full Anatomy of Subversion discussion led by Donatien Grau on our vimeo page. 

Featuring Judith Bernstein, Samara Golden, Sylvere Lotringer, Paul McCarthy, Vanessa Place, Barbara T. Smith, Jeffrey Spier, & Kaari Upson. 

Wally Hedrick and Bruno Serralongue

April 1 - May 13, 2017

Air de Paris

France

Wally Hedrick is featured in the group exhibition The Rat Bastard Protective Association, curated by Anastasia Aukemen. 

April 27 - 3 June, 2017

Susan Inglett Gallery

New York

The Box will present work by Stan VanDerBeek at Art Basel June 15 - 18, 2017. In addition to our booth, we will show VanDerBeek's "Movie Mural" as part of Basel's Unlimited section. 

Read the Art News Art Basel 2017 exhibitor list here.

A Mere Sum of Parts
organized by Sydney Croskery

February 25 - April 1, 2017
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

The Swiss Institute

7PM

Please join us for a conversation between Judith Bernstein and Thomas Micchelli to mark the publication of Judith Bernstein: Dicks of Death, published by Edition Patrick Frey.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

January 27, 2017

as part of Radical Bodies at the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara

details and tickets here: http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/news/announcement/539

Naotaka Hiro is included in the upcoming group exhibition Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation curated by Irene Tsatsos and Daniela Lieja at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. 

Opening Reception Saturday, January 28, 7 - 9 PM. 

Exhibition on view January 29 - April 2, 2017. 

Life After Death

curated by James Cavello

January 12 - February 18, 2017

Opening reception: Thursday, Jan. 12, 6 - 8 PM

Westwood Gallery, NYC

Jon Rafman / Stan VanDerBeek

curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen / GOODROOM

reception: Thursday, Jan. 19, 6-8 PM

January 20 - March 4, 2017

Variable Dimensions

February 8 - March 21, 2017

Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley

curated by Virginia Broersma, Nick Brown and Kio Griffith

January 5 - February 12, 2017

at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 7th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, from 1–5pm each day. 

Gladys Park - Skid Row 

808 east 6th street, Los Angeles, California 90021

Stan VanDerBeek is featured in the Whitney's upcoming exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, on view October 28, 2016 - February 5, 2017. 

Free! Friday, October 21, 2016 in Pasadena. 

LAFMS walking tour, performance, films, & more.

http://www.lafms.com/content/beneath-underground-lafms-old-town-pasadena-102116

The Box will have extended hours this weekend:

Friday, Oct. 14: noon - 7pm
Saturday, Oct. 15: noon - 7pm
Sunday, Oct. 16: noon - 5pm

The Box is thrilled to be showing Barbara T. Smith at Art Basel Miami Beach, December 1-4.

Stop by The Box's booth at S12. 

Nathaniel Mellors is featured in The National or the Skip with Slate Projects currently on view at The Averard Hotel in London through October 23rd

Judith Bernstein is featured in Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art April 27, 2016 - February 12, 2017.

Naotaka Hiro is featured in PLACEBOUND, a group exhibit curated by Bia Gayotto, on view at Woodbury University's Nan Rae Gallery. Details here

Barbara T. Smith will lead a walkthrough of her current exhibition Words, Sentences & Signs Saturday, September 24 at 4pm. 

Naotaka Hiro is featured in the group exhibition Protuberances

Curated by Catherine Taft and Jess Arndt

September 17 - October 29, 2016

Julien interviewed by Noam Segal for Keen On Magazine

Click here to read

Julien Bismuth's ongoing installation is on view now through Fall 2016

Details here

The Hammer Museum and Los Angeles Poverty Department co-present

Chasing Monsters from under the Bed

Tuesday, June 7 at 7:30pm

details here

A Modest Proposal
Lucas Blalock, Naotaka Hiro, Sanya Kantarovsky, Nicola L, Tala Madani, and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski

June 23 - July 29, 2016
Opening: Thursday, June 23, 2016, 6-8pm

Hauser & Wirth New York, 18th Street

more here

Howard Fried will be part of the group exhibition The Keeper at the New Museum in New York. 

The exhibition is on view July 20 - September 25, 2016. 

Olyami Dabls: Flags Erotic Rights

Henry Taylor's 810 East 3rd Street, #41 
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Opening Reception:
Sat, May 21, 2016, 5-10pm

Public Conversation:
Sun, May 22, 2016, 2pm
Dabls, Henry Taylor, & Lorcan O’Herlihy
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Henry Taylor’s is pleased to present the first Los Angeles exhibition of Olayami Dabls. One of the founders of the contemporary Detroit art scene, for over three decades Dabls has worked as an artist, historian and curator, lecturing extensively on African material culture to international audiences. In 2000 he opened the African Bead Museum on the corner of Grand River and West Grand Boulevard in Detroit. Here, Dabls houses his renowned collection of African beads, textiles and cultural objects. Surrounded by a sprawling sculpture garden comprised of eighteen outdoor installations that reference the different aspects of colonization through the metaphor of “Iron Teaching Rocks to Rust,” the museum attracts visitors from around the world. Occupying almost an entire city block, Dabls’ African Bead Museum is a tool through which communities come to understand the deep African roots in Detroit.

Curated by Corazon del Sol and Yael Lipschutz, Flags Erotic Rights represents three distinct bodies of work created by Dabls over a thirty-year period. A meditation on the contradictory nature of the United States as a symbol of both oppression and freedom, Flags (1985) is comprised of fourteen paintings of the United States flag seen from various angles. Erotic refers to the African Kama Sutra (2005-2009), a series of drawings, paintings and collages Dabls created in order to reclaim the humanity and beauty of African sexuality. Rights (1985) is a group of paintings and paper cutout collages about the Civil Rights Movement, made while Dabls was working as a curator and artist-in-residence at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. 

In addition to these three bodies of work, a selection of beads from the African Bead Museum will be on view. Rarely seen outside of Detroit, Dabls’ work recently received the attention of the Knight Foundation, who awarded him a $100,000 grant to cover renovations of the African Bead Museum, a project that will be spearheaded by the LA-based firm Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA). All profits from Dabls’ exhibition at Henry Taylor’s go towards the goal of matching the Knight Foundation’s award. The exhibition will be accompanied by a public conversation between Dabls, Henry Taylor and Lorcan O’Herlihy, moderated by Corazon del Sol and Yael Lipschutz.

We are thrilled to announce that Blast! [13], our annual garden party and fundraiser, returns to the beautiful home of the Hillenburg Family in San Marino on Sunday, May 22, 2016 from 4 to 8 p.m.

Blast! [13] features a glam musical tribute to David Bowie and Prince with Mannequins with Kill Appeal, plus Bowie/Prince Karaoke with special guests, along with great food and drink, a reprise of our popular Bootleg LP Art Auction and the return of MC Tom Stern (Freaked, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Man Show). Dublab impresario Ale Cohen spins tunes throughout the afternoon.

More than 80 artists are contributing to a reprise of our Bootleg LP Auction including Aaron Curry, Katie Grinnin, Alice Könitz, Friedrich Kunath and Chris Martin. 1301PE is hosting a pop up preview May 19-21, with an artist reception Thursday, May 19 from 6-9pm.

All proceeds from Blast! [13] support SASSAS’s experimental art and sound programming.

details here

The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) presents sound. a free public concert at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook on Sunday, May 15 4-7pm. 

Simone Forti will be doing a double Huddle performance with performers from the MOCA Education Program for teens. 

More information at www.sassas.org

on view May 3 - June 5, 2016

details here

New York Times

by Holland Cotter

link here

The Box is thrilled to be showing Howard Fried at Frieze New York at Randall's Island Park May 5-8, 2016

Main Section, Stand D38

Congratulations to Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, who have been selected to represent Finland at the 57th Venice Biennale with their proposal â€‹The Aalto Natives. The exhibition is curated by Xander Karskens.

Read the full announcement here.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)

The Back 9: Golf and Zoning Policy in Los Angeles with Rosten Woo
$50,000

LAPD and artist Rosten Woo will collaborate on the exhibition, The Back 9, a playable miniature golf course addressing current and historic zoning issues, from the origins of the SRO housing model that underpins Skid Row, to the potential endangering of the area’s affordable housing through the city’s new re:code LA initiative. To inform the exhibition’s content and design, Woo will lead free workshops with the public and LAPD company members—artists who work and live on Skid Row—and company members will also create a major theatrical performance using the golf course as their stage. The project is set to open in early 2017 at LAPD’s Skid Row History Museum & Archive.

Watch the Los Angeles Poverty Department perform Abolition and the Radical Imagination in 5 parts on Youtube, as part of the event presented by the LAPD and Critical Resistance in Los Angeles on Feb. 20, 2016. 

Video here

Judith Bernstein announced as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow 2016.

View the full list and official announcement from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation here and the announcement in the New York Times here.

EXTENDED

Now closing Saturday, April 16, 2016.

"Accompanying our current exhibition, “No Compromises! The Art of Boris Lurie,” Rudij Bergmann’s film about the artist will premiere on 21 March 2016 (additional information available on our event calendar). In this guest entry, the filmmaker tells us how this very personal documentary came about."

See the film trailer here

Barbara T. Smith's Black Glass Painting Photograph (1965) is featured in the Hammer Museum's current exhibition Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection, on view February 13 - May 15, 2016.

Julien Bismuth is in L'Homme aux cent yeux in Paris. 

Details here

Friday, March 18, 8 PM
Saturday, March 19, 8 PM
Sunday, March 20, 4 PM
$17 (presale) 
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2511893
$22 (at the door) Students, Seniors $17

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Body Mind World
Workshop with Simone Forti

Sunday, March 13, 12:30pm-3:30 pm

$30/class RSVP: bodyweather@gmail.com

ELECTRIC LODGE
1416 Electric Ave. 
Venice CA 90291
310.823.0710

Free parking at Electric Lodge

Boris Lurie's major retrospecitve NO COMPROMISES! The Art of Boris Lurie is on view February 26 - July 31, 2016 at the Jewish Museum Berlin. 

Exhibition on view March 16 - April 30, 2016
Opening reception Tuesday, March 15, 7pm

at Lira Gallery Rome

The gallery will be open Sunday, March 13 from noon to 6pm during the grand opening of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel

"The Top 10 Booths at Independent New York 2016"

Artnet News

By Brian Boucher

FEBRUARY 20TH in Los Angeles
5pm Doors, 6pm Event

ABOLITION AND THE RADICAL IMAGINATION:
FEATURING ANGELA Y. DAVIS, FRED MOTEN, AND MELANIE CERVANTES, moderated by ROBIN D.G. KELLEY

A fundraiser event to benefit Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department

Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department invite you to join us forProfiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination. We are excited to host acclaimed poet Fred Moten and renowned printmaker Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde in conversation with Angela Y. Davis.

Abolition and the Radical Imagination will encourage audience members to reinvigorate a critical understanding of prison industrial complex abolition and inspire us to take creative and practical steps to build this liberated future. Moten, Cervantes and Davis will be joined by performances by the Los Angeles Poverty Department to spark our radical imagination and lift up the spirit of liberation. All proceeds with benefit Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department. This event will also mark a special celebration of the Los Angeles Poverty Department’s 30-year anniversary.

TICKETS ON SALE @ http://abolition2016.brownpapertickets.com/

SPONSORSHIP: To make this inspiring event accessible to as many people in the Los Angeles community as possible, we are asking for your support. Sponsoring this event helps subsidize tickets for formerly imprisoned people, youth, and low-income communities. Sponsorship also helps demonstrate community support for creative movement building and rigorous, left analysis in these hopeful yet troubling times. For more info on sponsorship: http://criticalresistance.org/abolition/

About the Speakers

DR. ANGELA Y. DAVIS is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position at UCLA because of her activism and membership in the Communist Party, USA. In 1970 she was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List on false charges. During her sixteen-month incarceration, a massive international “Free Angela Davis” campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972. Today Prof. Davis remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is the author of many books, including her most recent collection, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media).

FRED MOTEN is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition,Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney), The Feel Trio and The Little Edges. A new poetry collection, The Service Porch and a new collection of essays, consent not to be a single being are forthcoming. Moten lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.

A member of the Oakland-based arts collaboration, Dignidad Rebelde, MELANIE CERVANTES is a Xicana activist-artist whose work includes black and white illustrations, paintings, installations and paper stencils. She is best known, however, for her prolific political screen prints and posters which have been used by movements across the globe. Employing vibrant colors and hand-drawn illustrations, her work moves those viewed as marginal to the center — featuring powerful youth, elders, women, and queer and indigenous peoples.

Tuesday, January 26
Hyperion Tavern
8PM-2AM

LAFMS: how low can you go?

A short film portrait of the Los Angeles Free Music Society in which members of the long running experimental music collective shine light on their fearless exploration of sound.

Film screens promptly at 10pm. 
¡¡¡ Music all night by LAFMS !!!

Live performances by:
Dinosaurs With Horns 
Joe Potts & Vetza (duet debut) 
+ the unveiling of DAFT (Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford & Fredrik NilsenTrio)

DJ sets by Nanny Cantaloupe & Frosty

Film directed by Holly Thompson & Mark "Frosty" McNeill

FREE / 21+

Brooklyn Museum

December 11, 2015 - August 7, 2016

January 24 - May 15, 2015

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 23, 6-8PM

Performances: March 25, 26 and April 1-3, 2016

February 4 - April 10, 2016

Judith Bernstein
Dicks of Death
January 9 - February 27, 2016

at Mary Boone Gallery in New York

Conversation and Performance with Simone Forti "Thinking with the Body"

Monday, February 1, 2016
6-7PM
FREE

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
more infomation HERE

The Box will be open the following days during the holiday:

Wednesday, December 23 - open
December 24-25 - closed
Saturday, December 26 - open

Wednesday, December 30 - open
December 31- January 1 - closed
Saturday, January 2 - open

on view January 29 - May 15, 2016

Whitechapel Gallery

London

The Box is thrilled to be participating in the third installment of Paramount Ranch

January 30-31, 2016

The Box will be CLOSED this Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving.

We will be open on Wednesday, Nov. 25 and Saturday, Nov. 28 during our regular business hours of 12 to 6pm.

mentioned as a part of ArtRx LA 

by Matt Stromberg

on view November 8 - December 20, 2015

Guy Goodwin, Heather Guertin, Naotaka Hiro, Dave McDermott, Jason Meadows

Facebook event HERE

"Anonymous Was A Woman today announced the ten artists selected to receive their twentieth annual awards. All the recipients are women over forty years of age who have significantly contributed to their fields, with the grants meant to support and sustain mature female artists. The winners this year are Donna Dennis, Wendy Ewald, Simone Forti, Rachel Harrison, Pam Lins, Jennifer Montgomery, Dona Nelson, Lisa Sanditz, Lisa Sigal, and Julianne Swartz. Each recipient will receive an unrestricted grant of $25,000 each."

Read the full Artforum news article HERE. 

Where Sculpture & Dance Meet: Minimalism 1961 - 1979 will be shown at the Untiled Art Fiar in Miami Beach as part of a curated special presentation from December 1 - 7, 2015. 

Details on Untitled HERE

Alfred Jarry Archipelago: La Valse Des Pantins - Act II

October 18, 2015 - February 14, 2015

William Anastasi, Julien Bismuth, Paul Chan, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Rainer Ganahl, Dora Garcia, Naotaka Hiro, Mike Kelley, Tala Madani, Nathaniel Mellors, Henrik Olesen

http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/ALFRED-JARRY-ARCHIPELAGO-LA-VALSE.html

'Where Sculptures and Dance Meet: Minimalism from 1961 to 1979' is on view at Loretta Howard Gallery through October 31.

Curated by Wendy Perron, this exhibition includes work by Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Robert Morris and many more. 

Curated by Juli Carson and Marilyn Nix

October 3 - December 12, 2015
University Art Gallery (UAG) at UC Irvine
Opening Reception: Sat. October 3, 2-5pm

More information here: http://www.arts.uci.edu/event/performative-trigger-radicals-irvine

Simone Forti will have work exhibited in the next collection show at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. 'Setting Things in Motion' will be open to the public on October 24. 

More informaiton to come:
http://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/the-museum/from-the-director/

The Box will be returning to Frieze London 

October 14 − 17, 2015

Stand G04

We will be exhibiting work by Naotaka Hiro, Paul McCarthy, and Benjamin Weissman from The Box's 2014 exhibition Men in LA as well as new individual and collaborative drawings.

This weekend ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE at the Hammer Musuem will feature over 25 international artists, including Simone Forti & the LAFMS Shoe (Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Joseph Hammer, Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, & Vetza)

Saturday, September 29 during the 12-4pm time slot

A group show that considers the mother, with work by Lutz Bacher, Susan Cianciolo, Sonya Hamilton, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eliot Porter, Aura Rosenberg, Diane Simpson, Barbara T. Smith, Frances Stark, and Rosemarie Trockel. It will also include new site-specific works by Cathy Wilkes and Anicka Yi, and a performance by Karin Schneider.

October 10–December 20, 2015
Thursday–Sunday, 3–6pm

OPENING
Saturday, October 10, 4–6pm

at ICA Boston
10/29/15
7 PM

http://www.icaboston.org/programs/talk-and-tours/VanDerBeek/

Sarah Conaway is part of Bad Boy Bail Bonds Adopt A Highway (curated by Amanda Ross-Ho) at Team Gallery in New York. 

The Box will be closed Friday, July 3 & Saturday, July 4.

We will resume our regular hours of noon to 6pm Wednesday, July 8. 

Announcing the Los Angeles book launch for The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema by Gloria Sutton (2015, MIT Press) 

With a screening of Stan VanDerBeek: The Computer Generation (1972, dir. John Musilli) followed by a discussion between Gloria Sutton and Kerry Tribe.

Friday, May 29 at 7 PM
at Ooga Booga #2, 356 S. Mission Road
FREE

Come celebrate the newest issue of X-TRA, Spring, and Women!
Co-presented with the Women’s Center for Creative Work

Teasing out and expanding on ideas from her essay The Conversation: The Young Female Artist as Historian, Catherine Wagley will moderate a conversational panel with Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Yael Lipschutz, and Corazon del Sol.

Saturday May 9th, 2015
at 3 pm

Hosted by
The Box Gallery
805 Traction Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Body Weather Laboratory/Lightning Shadow present
Flower of the Season 2015 Spring 

FLOWERS AND VESSEL

Simone Forti
Roxanne Steinberg
Oguri
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Friday May 29, 8:00PM
Saturday May 30, 8:00PM
Sunday May 31, 4:00PM
$17 (presale) 
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1475270
$22 (at the door) Students, Seniors $17

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Body Mind world
Workshop with Simone Forti
Wednesday May 6, 10am-1pm
Sunday May 10, 12:30pm-3:30pm
Registration: bodyweather@gmail.com
Fee: $30/class

ELECTRIC LODGE
1416 Electric Ave.
Venice CA 90291
310-823-0710

Free parking at Electric Lodge

Exhibition: Blue Book / Silver Book

April 11 - June 27, 2015

Opening reception: Saturday, April 11, 6-9 PM

Skid Row History Museum & Archive
440 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 2-5 PM
and Friday 3-6 PM

2 May - 6 Jun 2015
Opening Saturday 2 May, 5-7pm

Renzo Martens and The Institute for Human Activities
"A New Settlement"

Galerie Fons Welters
Bloemstraat 140
1016 LJ Amsterdam

www.fonswelters.nl

USC Roski School of Art and Design and the MA in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program present In Search of an Exit (or Eight Characters in a Parlor), a group exhibition of time-based artworks about the human condition at the Heritage Square Museum.

In Search of an Exit (or Eight Characters in a Parlor)
Exhibition dates: April 10 – May 3, 2015
Opening reception: Tuesday April 7, 6-9pm

Barbara T. Smith is included in the group show 'Columbidae' curated by Laura McLean-Ferris at Cell Project Space in London. 

The exhibition runs March 26 - May 17, 2015. Other artists include Essex Olivares, Melanie Matranga, and Dena Yago. 

Find more informaiton HERE

On view February 28 - March 28, 2015

Reception Sat. Feb 28, 2015, 6-8 pm

details here: http://www.andrewkreps.com/exhibition/1320/press-release

Judith Bernstein is included in a group show at Klaus Von Nichtssagend rc drones for sale gallery in New York. 

Flames on the Side of My Face
curated by David Gilbert

February 13 - March 15, 2015
Opening reception: Feb. 13, 6-8 pm

Judith Bernstein
Sam Contis
Tony Feher
Daniel Ingroff

Wednesday, January 28 at 7 PM

111 N. Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Launched in 2012 by ForYourArt with Fundación Alumnos47 as an event series devoted to artist books, Artist Books and Cookies continues with activities at the LA Art Book Fair and Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Through these activities and conversations, Artist Books and Cookies provides a platform to discuss the medium of artist books within today’s contemporary art landscape.

On January 28th, in anticipation of Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Hans Ulrich Obrist will interview Tauba Auerbach, Felipe Ehrenberg, and Barbara T. Smith about their bookmaking practices. 

Barbara T. Smith is recognized for her prolific self-published Xeroxed books, which document and explore her personal life by presenting a kind of material autobiography. She is also known for her performance work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which was at the forefront of feminist, body, and performance art. 

RSVP to rsvp@foryourart.com

The Box will be CLOSED on Thursday 11/27 and Friday 11/28 for the Thanksgiving holiday. However, the gallery will be open during our regular hours (12 noon to 6 pm) on Wednesday 11/26 and Saturday 11/29. 

The Box is honored to be Frieze London's Stand Prize Winner 2014, showing Barbara T. Smith's xerox work from 1965-1966. 

We're proud to announce that John Altoon's Untitled (F-16) is on view as part of MOCA's permanent collection. 

Barbara T. Smith will perform "Wrestling" this Saturday, September 27 at 6pm as part of MOCA's performance series Step and Repeat. Smith will "wrestle" anyone that comes into her room during the performance, one at a time. Preference to participants 60 and older. Don't miss this incredible opportunity!

The Society For The Activation Of Social Space Through Art And Sound is having a Listening Party with Simone Forti, Hedi El Kholti and Tashi Wada, hosted by Renee Petropoulos and Roger White in Venice on Sunday, Sepbember 21, 2014 from 4-8pm. 

Find more information and purchase tickets HERE

September 13 - November 1, 2014
Reception: Saturday, September 13, 6-9 PM

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Read more here. 

Curated by Sterling Ruby and concurrent with his solo exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery Modern (Roppongi, Tokyo), SARAH CONAWAY and MELANIE SCHIFF is a two-person exhibition of photographic works. The show runs September 9 - October 4, 2014. 

Read more HERE

Simone Forti is participating in The Bridge Project 2014, September 26-27 in San Francisco! 

In addition to curated performances, programing includes master classes and panel discussions centered around the West Coast post-podern dance lineage.

Purchase tickets and view the full programming schedule HERE

August 23 - September 27 at Night Gallery

Details here

Simone Forti Thinking with the Body: A Retrospective in Motion is on view at the Museum de Moderne in Salzburg July 18 - November 9, 2014! Read more about the exhibition and the full press release here. 

Additionally, in conjunction with the retrospective, the catalog Simone Forti. Thinking with the Body will be published in German and English hardcover editions. It includes an interview with Simone Forti by Sabine Breitwieser, essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Fred Dewey, and Meredith Morse, a conversation between Liz Kotz and Tashi Wada, and texts by the artists Robert Morris, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer. 320 pp., many color and black-and-white illustrations. For more information and to purchase a catalog through The Box, please email info@theboxla.com. 

details here. 

Join Works Sited for a lecture from James Nisbet about his new book 'Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s', which includes an excerpt about Simone Forti's work. 

Saturday, July 19th at 2pm 
Mark Taper Auditorium

More information in the link below. Hope you can make it!
http://www.works-sited.info/

View the image HERE.

Find more information, view images and read the full press release HERE

The Box will be closed on Friday, July 4 for the holiday. We will be open on Saturday, July 5 for the last day of the Men in LA exhibition. 

For questions please email info@theboxla.com. 

Simone Forti's piece Huddle will be performed at the Le Mouvement festival Performing the City Biel/Bienne 2014. While Simone will not be there herself, Huddle will be a part of Mouvement II, August 26-31, 2014. 

Visit their website for more information here. 

Koki Tanaka will be in Journal at the ICA, London. 

The show runs 25 June-7 September, 2014. 

For mor information and to read the press release, visit the ICA's website HERE. 

By Aimee Lin

ArtReview Asia

Read the full interview HERE

Simone Forti will be performing with Wendy Perron and Victoria Marks in Moving, Speaking, Watching: Talk and Dance Performance on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 7 PM. The performance is part of the Los Angeles Central Library ALOUD program.

Details and tickets HERE. 

LAST WEEK to see Painters of Modern Life at The Box before it closes this Saturday, 5/24! 

Curated by Mitchell Algus, the show features four artists: Dan Burkhart, E'wao Kagoshima, Juanita McNeely, and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. 

The Box is open Wednesday - Saturday, noon to 6 PM.

Boris Lurie will be showing at the Vostell Museum in Malpartida, Spain. Lurie's solo show runs May to July, 2014. 

Find more information HERE

More information can be found HERE. 

"The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents two live performances, on May 1 and 3, by Jeremiah Day, Simone Forti, and Fred Dewey. The trio has been working together in various configurations since the 1990s, using art to represent the collision of personal, civic, and public life. Each performance consists of slideshow presentations by Day, dance solos by Forti, and forms of unscripted public address from Dewey.

Nonfictions: Jeremiah Day/Simone Forti/Fred Dewey is part of the trio’s ongoing public investigation of artistic collaboration and improvisation. The exhibition opens at SMMoA on Saturday, May 17."  

See SMMoA's full website HERE. 

The Box is pleased to announce our participation in Frieze New York 2014. 

Stand C14

May 9 - 12, 2014

Randall's Island Park, Manhattan, New York

Friday, May 9 - 11am–7pm

Saturday, May 10 - 11am–7pm

Sunday, May 11 - 11am–7pm

Monday, May 12 - 11am–6pm

For more informaiton about The Box at Frieze NY, tickets and more, visit their website: http://exhibitors.friezenewyork.com/index.php?r=artwork/viewer

Saturday, April 26 at 2:00 PM

Sound And Vision - The Conversations

The Conversations, organized by independent curator Douglas Fogle, will offer visitors multiple intellectual perspectives on the use of images by bringing together notable curators and contemporary artists for a discussion of the practice of image-making. Participants will include artists and curators: Walead Beshty, Simon Castets, Doryun Chong, Charlotte Cotton, Clara Kim, Florian Maier-Aichen, Jean-Luc Moulène, Leigh Ledare, Amanda Ross-Ho, Stephen Shore, Taryn Simon, Agnès Sire, Frances Stark, Kevin Tent, Kerry Tribe, Sara VanDerBeek, Philippe Vergne and Jeff Wall.

Click HERE for more information on Paris Photo Los Angeles

from Kadist SF

Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/90244469

Watch this quick video of Wolf Vostell's Starfighter being assembled at the ZKM | Museum of Modern Art in Germany. The installaiton is a part of Beuys Brock Vostell running May 24 to November 9, 2014. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlPOs1KIQxw

For more information on the exhibit: http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$8666

Melinda Ring: Forgetful Snow 

May 8 - 17, 2014

The Kitchen

512 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 

Details here: http://thekitchen.org/event/melinda-ring-forgetful-snow

Artforum

Review of Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine illlummminnnatttionnnsssss!!!!!!!, 2014.

Written by Catherine Damman

Read the full article HERE

New York Times

Written by Brian Seibert

Read the full article HERE

The Los Angeles Poverty Department's work at Queens Museum of Art is featured in the current issue of Artforum magazine. Written by Colby Chamberlain. 

Download the full article in the LAPD's "Press" section here: http://theboxla.com/artist.php?id=4623

Barbara T. Smith, Performance Audio 1969 - 1988

By Doug Harvey

Aritllery

March 2014 

"An Art Fair That Tries to Be Something Else: The Independent, a Maverick Forum"

By Martha Schwendener

New York Times

The Box is ecstatic to bring the work of Robert Mallary to the Independent, New York, located at 548 West 22nd Street, March 7-9.

Visit The Box on the second floor of the building.

Public fair hours:

Friday, March 7: 12-7pm

Saturday, March 8: 12-8pm 

Sunday, March 9: 12-6pm

For tickets, general information and inquiries please visit 

http://independentnewyork.com/ or http://theboxla.com/

Hope to see you there!

Renzo Martens: Episode III closes this Saturday, March 1. Don't miss your last chance to see the show!

The 90-minute film 'Episode III' is shown daily during the exhibition at noon, 2 pm and 4 pm.

The Box is open Wednesday - Saturday, noon - 6 pm.

Opening at Portikus

February 15–April 20, 2014

Opening: February 14, 8pm

Portikus

Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel

60594 Frankfurt am Main

www.portikus.de

The Queens Museum in New York will host the first East Coast presentation of State of Incarceration (2010-ongoing) by LA performance group the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD).

Performance Dates: January 31st and February 1 at 7:30pm, and 5pm on Sunday, February 2, 2014. The Sunday performance will be preceded by a gallery talk with curator and artists beginning at 3pm.

All performances are free and unticketed.

More information here: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/performance-state-of-incarceration-by-los-angeles-poverty-department/

Stay tuned for more details on the LAPD coming to The Box, Los Angeles in March 2014.

Don't miss some of The Box crew at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair 2014! 

Thursday, January 30  ---  LAFMS performing

The Box and East of Borneo present: The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) performing live on the KCHUNG Radio Stage, 6 - 8 pm

6pm: John Wiese + Ted Byrnes

7pm: Extended Organ

8pm: AIRWAY

Sunday, February 2  --- Simone Forti reading for Artists Read Baldessari

1 - 3 pm, RSVP required due to limited space.

RSVP HERE

Artists and special surprise guests will read from More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari (eds. Meg Cranston and Hans Ulrich Obrist, JRP|Ringier), two new volumes from the publisher’s complete Baldessari writings project. Featuring previously unpublished texts, notes to students, course handouts, texts on other artists and portions of his notebooks,the volumes are an experiment in how a literary genre might encompass artists’ writings, having them stand alone in a book without images. 

Ongoing Exhibition  --- Leigh Ledare

Check out this collaborative project created exclusively for the LA Art Book Fair by Leigh Ledareand Nicolas Guagnini, presented by Andrew Roth and PPP Editions. It consists of an intervention into 100 books on the social sciences: Marxism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, literary and art criticism, cultural studies, and literature. The intervention consists of circular holes filled with a variation of positions and possibilities within human sexual interaction.

For more information on these and other events, please visit:

http://laartbookfair.net/events

The Box is thrilled to announce The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) is performing at the KCHUNG stage at Los Angeles Art Book Fair on Thursday, January 30th at the KCHUNG stage at 6-8pm. 

The KCHUNG stage is located in the Courtyard. Here is the schedule for the evening:

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30
Curated by East of Borneo and The Box
The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS)
6:00 pm John Wiese + Ted Byrnes
7:00 pm Extended Organ
8:00 pm Airway 

For more information, please visit the LA Book Fair's website: http://laartbookfair.net/events#KCHUNGSTAGE

For more on KCHUNG, check out their website: http://www.kchungradio.org/

Renzo Martens will be speaking at USC Roski School of Art and Design's Graduate Lecture Series.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

12noon - 2 pm

We are pleased to share Julien Bismuth: 'An image as the ______ of a surface' will be showing at the Simone Subal Gallery in New York from January 12 - February 16, 2014.

More information here.

Koki Tanaka featured in Gallerist article, "Frieze New York Announces Seven Projects for 2014" by Zoe Lescaze. 

Read the full article here. 

More informaiton about The Box at Frieze New York here. 

We're happy to announce that Wolf Vostell's exhibition, Endogen Depression/Back in LA, has been extended thru Sunday, January 5th.
We will be open normal gallery hours until Sunday, December 22; afterwards our holiday hours will be: Saturday, December 28th & Sunday, December 29, 12-6pm.

January 3 - January 5th, 12-6pm.

The Box wishes you a happy holiday season! We hope you can come celebrate with the turkeys!

Barbara T. Smith is a participating artist in 'Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual' running January 16 - February 22, 2014. 

Work is selected by Pati Hertling and includes a full program of performances and events that will take place during the run of the exhibition. For more information on dates and times of these performances, please visit www.whitecolumns.org.

If you are in New York from now until December 22, 2013, do not miss Barbara T. Smith's work at Essex Street gallery, alongside work from John Armleder and Jessica Warboys. 

114 Eldridge Street, New York, New York 10012

Find more information on the Essex Street website: here

Barbara T. Smith's Feed Me was featured in a piece for Saatchi Gallery Magazine, entitled "Recipes for Reform" written by Susannah Worth. A great read about the use of food in art "interrupts and intervenes in fundamental aspects of life and society," later becoming a crucial invitation to critical discussion men and women's models of behavior. 

Published in issue 24 of Saatchi Gallery's Art & Music Magazine, Winter 2013. PDF available here. 

The Box is tremendously proud to be a part of two upcoming art fairs in New York in 2014. 

Independent New York

March 6-9, 2014

http://www.independentnewyork.com/

Frieze New York

May 9-12, 2014

http://friezenewyork.com/

Details to come!

Gallery hours for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday:

Wednesday, 11/27 - Noon-6 pm

Thursday, 11/28 - Closed

Friday, 11/29 - Closed

Saturday, 11/30 - Noon-6 pm

Sunday, 12/1 - Noon-6 pm

After the weekend, we will resume the extended gallery hours for this exhibit: Wednesday through Sunday from Noon to 6 pm.

Happy Thanksgiving!

WOLF VOSTELL has arrived! 

Endogen Depression/Back in LA

Opening Sunday, November 24 (noon-8pm)

Opening reception 5-8pm

Please join us on Sunday, November 24 to celebrate the opening of WOLF VOSTELL: Endogen Depression/Back in LA at The Box, LA.  Refreshments will be provided.  Hope to see you there! 

*Extra gallery hours will be added for this exhibition. The Box will be open Wednesday-Sunday from noon-6pm, including opening day on November 24. 

WOLF VOSTELL OPENING...POSTPONED

THE SHIPMENT IS STUCK IN CUSTOMS 
PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER INFO 
THIS EXHIBITION IS NOT CANCELED; MERELY POSTPONED

WE ARE COMMITTED TO EXHIBIT AND SHARE THIS AMAZING WORK WITH THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY!!!

JUDITH BERNSTEIN 
BLACK LIGHT TOUR & BBQ

Please join us Friday, October 4 to hear Judith Bernstein give a black light tour of BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE: 18 NEW PAINTINGS.  Bernstein's magnificent paintings are explosive under black light (see example to the left) and we are thrilled to host this special event.  Delicious barbecue will be provided courtesy of our friends UGLY DRUM BBQ! 

Starts at 8pm, through 10pm.

BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE runs through October 26 at The Box.

Ugly Drum: 
Facebook: facebook.com/uglydrum
Twitter: @uglydrum
Email: erik@uglydrum.com

Judith Bernstein's 'Birth of the Universe' was listed as a Critics' Pick in ArtForum. 

Click here to read the full review by Travis Diehl. 

Check out Judith Bernstein's review of her exhibition 'Birth of the Universe' in the Los Angeles Times, by Sharon Mizota.

Click here to read the review.

For more information, please visit Brennan & Griffin's website.

Press Release:

NAOTAKA HIRO

September 8 - October 20, 2013

RECORD LAUNCH
Thursday, September 12th from 7-9 PM

Barbara T. Smith: Performance Audio 1969-1988 

Where: Ooga Booga #2, 356 S. Mission Road, LA, CA 90033

Small World is proud to announce the release of Performance Audio 1969-1988 by artist Barbara T. Smith.  Please join usThursday, September 12th from 7-9 PM at Ooga Booga #2 for a listening.   In addition, we will be screening the film Starbiker, 1971 by Mallary Slate, starring Dick Kilgroe and Barbara T. Smith at 7:30 sharp!

For More information please visit:
Performance Audio: http://www.smallworldmfg.info/projects/performance-audio/  (Performance Audio)
Small World MFG: http://www.smallworldmfg.info/
http://www.356mission.com/

Judith Bernstein on Artforum.com 'Must See: Los Angeles,' September 7, 2013. Click here to see the listing.

Mike Bouchet has 2 Diet Cola Works featured '356 Sculptures,' currently on view at 356 Mission. The show runs through September 14th. 

Go to 356mission.com for more information.

The Box is pleased to announce that The Three Prophets: Stanley Fisher, Sam Goodman, Boris Lurie, is extended through June 22. 

In addition to the Three Prophets exhibition on view, an accompanying catalogue will be available at The Box. Access a copy of Benjamin Weissman's essay contribution Forzen orgy here.

Exhibition curated and accompanying catalogue commissioned by Mara McCarthy, with generous support from the Boris Lurie Art Foundation. 

Frozen Orgy
By Benjamin Weissman
April 2013

Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405, an exhibition at Otis College of Art and Design’s Ben Maltz Gallery, begins an extensive survey of the neighborhoods and networks of Los Angeles artists. Opening Saturday, April 13, the exhibition features the work of 33 contemporary artists, including the piece Hot Peppers by Barbara T. Smith. 

The impetus for this curatorial endeavor was and continues to be an effort to survey, one studio at a time, the neighborhoods and networks of artists working in Los Angeles. Featuring the work of 33 contemporary artists, including Hot Peppers by Barbara T. Smith.

For further information, please go here. 

Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405
13 April to 1 June, 2013
Opening Reception: April 13, 4pm-6pm

Ben Maltz Gallery
9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Hours: Tue-Fri 10-5 / Thu 10-9 / Sat-Sun 12-4
www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery

purple DIARY —
A VISIT TO JUDITH BERNSTEIN'S STUDIO, New York
Photo: Elise Gallant

A behind the scene's look at Judith's studio space and current paintings, including the BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE series which will be on view at The Box Fall 2013.

Access an edited post of a conversation between Natasha Ginwala and Simone Forti, interspersed with images from Simone's show 'Sounding' here. 

The Box is pleased to announce we are extending XEROX: Barbara T Smith 1965-66 through March 30, 2013. We invite you to come see Barbara's Xerox books, collectively on view for the first time in over forty years, in the shows' last week at The Box, LA. 

Courtesy of Danielle McCullough for Art: 21 Blog, copies of Barbara T. Smith's poetry-Xerox works are available to download. All works remain copyright of Barbara T. Smith, and are intended for research purposes only.

Download Barbara T Smith: Xerox Poetry set here. 

Danielle's review of Barabara's exhibition, 'Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara T. Smith: Cheek To Glass, Electric Impressions of the Material Body' can be accessed here. 

Concrete Escort I, II, III, IV
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Friday, March 22
6 pm and 8 pm

New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites a select group of painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. The result will see the participants leading performative exhibiton tours determined by their interpretations on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. 

Participants include Ei Arakawa, Simone Forti, Jutta Koether, Andrew Lampert, and Caitlin MacBride.

Concrete Escort I, II, III, IV will take place over the course of two days: March 22nd and April 26th, with tours at 6 and 8 pm respectively. Simone's tour will be on March 22, 2013
Buy tickets here. 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5th Ave at 89th Street
Box office 212.423.3587

A thoughtful review of XEROX: Barbara T. Smith 1965-66 by Sharon Mizota for The Los Angeles Times.

Read the online version here.

Simone Forti: King's Fool

Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 7, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Friday, March 8, 2013, 5:00 p.m.
The Michael Ovitz Family Painting and Sculpture Gallery, Gallery 23, fourth floor

In this new work, premiering at MoMA, Forti draws on one of her ongoing projects, News Animations, which was initially developed in the 1980s. Simone Forti's King Fool is part of a series of performances in conjunction with the exhibition Performing Histories: Live Artworks Examining the Past

For more information on MoMA's performance program, please go here. 

Sarah Conaway's upcoming solo exhibition at Barbara Seiler Galerie opens next week, as part of LINIE 31, a joint project of galleries and off-spaces in Zurich Aussersihl.

SARAH CONAWAY
March 02 - April 13, 2013
Preview: Saturday, March 02, 2013 from 12 - 5 pm

Barbara Seiler
Anwandstrasse 67
8004 Zuerich

T: +41 43 317 1042
info@barbaraseiler.ch
www.barbaraseiler.ch

"XEROX: Barbara T. Smith 1965 - 1966" at The Box is currently featured on artforum.com's "Must-See Shows" list, artforum editors' selection of essential exhibitions worldwide.

20 February 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Graduate Lecture Series: Mara McCarthy

The USC Roski School Graduate Lecture Series, or Visiting Artist Forum, is open to the public and consists of a two-hour, in-depth presentation by a prominent artist, writer, or curator, followed by a group discussion that allows students and faculty to raise questions, ideas, and problems

For more information on this event, please go here.
See all upcoming lectures here. 

USC University Park Campus
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
Lecture Forum
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

30 January 30 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Graduate Lecture Series: Simone Forti

The USC Roski School Graduate Lecture Series, or Visiting Artist Forum, is open to the public and consists of a two-hour, in-depth presentation by a prominent artist, writer, or curator, followed by a group discussion that allows students and faculty to raise questions, ideas, and problems

For more information on this event, please go here. 
See all upcoming lectures here. 

USC University Park Campus
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
Lecture Forum
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

In this video, artist Judith Bernstein discusses her works Vietnam Garden (1967) and L.B.J. (1967), both on view in the exhibition Sinister Pop at the Whitney, NYC.

SINISTER POP
15 November 2012 - 31 March 2013
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021

Video courtesy of WhitneyFocus

The Box is pleased to announce we are extending the exhibition Painting until February 2nd to coincide with the LA Art Book Fair. 

Our next show featuring artist Barbara T Smith's Xerox Books opens February 16, 2013.

For further information on Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair at the Geffen MOCA, please go here. 

The Feverish Library (continued)
January 19 - February 23, 2013

Opening Saturday, January 19, 6-8.30pm

Rachel Kheedori's Untitled (Iraq Book Project), 2008-2010, will be on view at Capitain Petzel as part of The Feverish Library (continued).
This group exhibition features the work John Baldessari, Erica Baum, Barbara Bloom, Jonathan Callan, Clegg & Guttmann, Eli Cortiñas, Natalie Czech, Kajsa Dahlberg, Diango Hernández, Candida Höfer, Hervé Humbert, Margarete Jakschik, Martin Kippenberger, Rachel Khedoori, Anouk Kruithof, Oliver Laric, John Latham, Robert Longo, Sara MacKillop, Olaf Nicolai, Oehlen / Goetz, Michalis Pichler, Peter Piller, Stephen Prina, Amy Sillman, John Stezaker, Jeff Wall, Christopher Williams.

For further information, please go here. 

Opening tonight at Michael Benevento, LA is the exhibition Reckless Head.

Featuring the work of Elke Krystufek, HeadYuji Agematsu, Michaela Eichwald, Candy Jernigan, Mathieu Malouf, Lucy McKenzie, Jeanette Mundt, Jean-Fréderic Schnyder, Rosemarie Trockel, Andra Ursuta, and Erik van Lieshout 

Reckless Head
Curated by: Jeanette Mundt
January 19th - March 2nd
Opening:  January 19th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Michael Benevento
7578/7556 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Cast Recording
January 18, 2013 — February 16, 2013
Opening Reception: February 18, 7-9 pm

Cast Recording draws together works that employ two distinct methods of casting ― the casting of objects and casting of characters. One is in the aid of transfiguration and the other in pursuit of personification, yet both share the intention of filling a form with a substance malleable enough to assume a given shape.

Artists in Cast Recording include Lucie Stahl, Marie Lund, Ryan Gander, Matt Hinkley, Hany Armanious, Math Bass, Sarah Conaway, Pierre Bismuth, Olga Balema, Pascual Sisto and Jayson Musson.

Cast Recording is curated by Liv Barrett and will be accompanied by a catalogue, published online, available from prismla.com upon the opening of the exhibition.

PRISM

8746 W. Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
T 310 289 1301
F 310 289 1302

LA Existancial is a group show curated Curated by Marie de Brugerolle in conjunction with Ceci n'est pas. The exhibition features more than 15 artists from Los Angeles, France and the rest of the world.

Artists include: John Baldessari, Julien Bismuth, Emily Mast, Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet, Guy de Cointet,JP Flavien, Andrea Fraser, Dora Garcia, Clara Gensburger, Elsa Bourdot, Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly,Jimmy Robert, Michaël Salvi, Benjamin Seror, Lucille Uhlrich, Simon Bergala, Jessica Warboys, Morten Halvorsen, Veridiana Zurita.

LA Existancial
Jan 17 - Mar 3, 2013
Opening Reception: Janurary 16, 2013

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028

In response to the exhibition Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-62, the Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents an international program of radical films that puncture the image, three-dimensionalize the film surface, or otherwise challenge the traditional cinematic experience. 
Carolee Schneemann's seminal work “Fuses” will be on view. 

Thursday, January 10, 2013, 7:00 pm 
Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents: Breaking the Plane
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles 90012 

In addition to her appearance at The Box's panel discussion on Painting this Saturday, Carolee will be presenting her new video works in person at the Spielberg Theatre, Egyptian on Sunday.

Sunday, January 13, 2013, 7:30 pm 
Los Angeles Filmforum presents: Carolee Schneemann: New videos of the Performing Artist
Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian
6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028

For further information, please go here.

Panel Discussion for Painting
Saturday, January 12, 2013
5:00pm
Admission is free

Please join us for what will surely shape up as a interesting discussion amongst strong voices around the topic of painting.

This panel will bring together some of the voices of this exhibition including: Barbara T. Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Judith Bernstein, Theo Altenburg (artist and long time friend of Otto Muehl) and Paul McCarthy. Moderated by Principal/Curator of The Box, Mara McCarthy, the panel will be located at The Box gallery in the downtown arts district, Los Angeles.

This panel will give opportunity to discuss how these artists, many of whom are known for other forms of work including performance and drawings, have used painting in their practice. How they approach and define the medium of painting will be used a main focus.

We recommend you arrive early to view the exhibition prior to the panel discussion. 

A few choice words on our current exhibition Painting, still on view at The Box. Painting is currently featured on artforum.com's "Must-See Shows" list

Critics' Picks: Painting

By Julian Friedman
Published on Artforum.com
January 7, 2013

Review: Paint's Primal Power at The Box

By Leah Ollman
Published in The Los Angeles Times
December 27, 2012

The Box, LA will be closed for the holidays starting December 23, 2012.

We will reopen on January 2, 2012.

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year!

A ’60s Landmark in the Eyes of Children: Clarinda Mac Low and Simone Forti Recall Judson Dance Era 

Opening at the New Museum on July 18, 2012,Ghosts in the Machine surveys the constantly shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art. On view will be a reconstruction of Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome (1963–65), an immersive cinematic environment where the viewer is bathed in a constant stream of moving images, anticipating the fusion of information and the body, typical of the digital era. To coincide with the re-staging of VanDerBeek's Movie-Drome, American Contemporary will be exhibiting a series of writing, drawings and collages, curated in collaboration with Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek. 

Ghosts in the Machine

18 July 2012 - 30 Septemeber 2012

New Museum

235 Bowery  New York, NY 10002

For further information, please go here. 

Stan VanDerBeek 

July 12 – August 17, 2012 

Opening reception July 18, 2012 6 – 8pm 

American Contemporary

4 East 2nd Street New York, NY

For further information, please go here. 

The Box will be closed for Independence Day, and reopen Thursday with our normal hours. 

Mike Bouchet: Selected Works 1989-2009 now available on Sternberg Press.
Texts by Lucas Ajemian and Colin Gardner. Conversation with Daniel Birnbaum.

2009, English
21.5 x 28 cm, 216 pages, 171 color ill., hardcover
ISBN 978-1-933128-73-3
€26.00

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Box Gallery's new site