Our dear friend, and favorite poet ARIANA REINES is opening for PSYCHIC TV on December 9 at the club EUROPA in Brooklyn. If you’re in NYC that night, and if you enjoy listening to that kind of dope. RUN FOR IT. And for the fun of it, send us back images, sounds, and/or words, on and about that very special night. We’ll be very happy to make a post with all the good material we receive from you!

Till then enjoy a video of Psychic TV performing at Europa club two years ago.

—dp

Birdcalls is a sound piece created by Louise Lawler from 1972/1981. The artwork mocked the inequity between male and female representation in the art market of the time. In 2008 “Women in the City” (an ongoing viral public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles) restaged Birdcalls­ — outside the conventional white cube space — in a nautral environment at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino.

Following are the videos of the piece at the Huntington Botanical Gardens :

And in case your ears missed the calls here is the list of the artists’ names recorded in the piece, followed by the recording of the piece from 1972 : Vito Acconci, Carl André, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Gucchi, Gilbert and George, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Neil Jenney, Donald Judd, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mario Merz, Simar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Laurence Weiner.

The Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Sherrie Levine. The exhibition opens on November 5 and will remain on view through December 18, 2010.

Khmer Torso, 2010 (detail), cast bronze.

The exhibition will include two series of 18 monochrome paintings based on the various tones of grey and blue found in Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalents. The Equivalents are a series of photographs of cloud formations taken between 1925 and 1934 that form the cornerstone of Stieglitz’s reflection on the medium of photography and its unique ability to capture abstraction in the natural world. Levine’s monochromatic series extends her career-long inquiry into abstract painting, from the stripe and checkerboard patterns of the 1980s to works after Blinky Palermo, Piet Mondrian, the Russian avant-garde and others. A recent series of monochrome works, titled Salubra (2007), was based on a color chart for wallpapers designed by Le Corbusier in 1931.

This is Levine’s second series of works inspired by Stieglitz’ work. In 2006, she created Equivalents: After Stieglitz 1-18, a suite of 18 photographic prints which break down the gray scale of the original photographs into chessboard-pattern squares of solid hues.

Also on view will be a series of new bronze sculpture, including Khmer Torso, a headless and armless male figure based on a carved stone sculpture of a male divinity from 12th century Cambodia; and Les Deux Chèvre-Pieds, a reference to the Greek god Pan and the goat-satyrs who attend Dionysus.

Sherrie Levine was born in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, grew up in St. Louis and moved to New York in 1975. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., 1988; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1988; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1991; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1992; and Portikus, Frankfurt, 1994, among others. In 2005, she was one of the four artists included in Quartet, the opening exhibition of the new Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Her work was included in Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, at the Museum of Modern Art (2008). That same year she was part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. The Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Germany, is currently presenting a one-person exhibition of Levine’s sculpture, Pairs and Posses (through February 6, 2011). The Whitney Museum is preparing the first full-scale retrospective of Levine’s work, scheduled for Fall 2011.