Opening this Friday at HVW8 Art & Design Gallery in Los Angeles, Hassan Rahim presents his new exhibition, The Air Above This Ground. Bringing together high and low themes in a way that conjures vague childhood memories and adolescent fantasies, Rahim utilizes photography, collage and mixed media to create bold contextual pieces which both appeal to and alarm their audience. Themes of competition, excellence and the decadence that comes with them are present, and expanded on in a way that exposes the curious details behind them.

Source - HVW8

Jack Smylie

Since its establishment in 2002, JTQ has been deeply committed to "sending messages through space as ultimate media", in creating communication spaces. In commemoration of its 10th anniversary this fall, JTQ will publish the Artist book, recording its creation history. It's the exploration and disclosure of the Space Composer, Junji Tanigawa's philosophy, conception, and creation by Theseus Chan, one of the leading art directions in Singapore. It's another shade of the JTQ experience, expressed in print form.

Photographer - Yoshiaki Tsutsui

Source - JTQ Inc.

Jack Smylie

Dancing Around Duchamp is a series of events to be held at London's Barbican Centre from mid February that explore the work of Marcel Duchamp, his precursors, collaborators and the artists he influenced across music, dance, theatre, film and art.

Susan Strongman

We recently visited the studio of American artist Ethan Cook, (feature coming soon), who is preparing for his first solo show in France, opening this Saturday, 12 March, at Galerie Jeanroch Dard in Paris. Entitled "Felman", Cook works with textures and takes the idea of the canvas one step further, so that surface and showpiece are one and the same. Hand loomed canvases are color blocked and framed, while others are pigmented and dyed, with all entries capturing a sense of the movement that went into their making.

// www.jeanrochdard.com

Jack Smylie

New York-based artist Max Snow presents his new exhibition "The Lady Of Shalott" at colette, Paris. Snow's first solo show in the French capital, "The Lady Of Shalott" is inspired by the Alfred Tennyson poem of the same name. Both the poem and the show serve to raise questions about society and the artist's role, responding to the conflicting commands to create art inspired by the world and also to live in it.

Jack Smylie

A new show at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts showcasing photography by Juergen Teller opens on 23 January 2013.

Susan Strongman

It's always welcome news to hear of a new publication by Daido Moriyama, a photographer who has continually sought new ways of presenting and recontextualizing his work, frequently recasting his images through the use of different printing techniques, installation, or re-editing and reformatting. His latest printed work, Labyrinth, sees Moriyama return to his contact sheets from the past five decades, selecting previously known images as well as ones never before published.

Source - Aperture Foundation

Jack Smylie

Wolfgang Tillmans focuses his lens on the outside world in a new collection of work that sees the photographer turn away from the self-reflexive exploration of the photography medium that had occupied him for years. The results are found in Neue Welt, Tillman's most recent book, which offers a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world - from London and Nottingham to Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia, and Papua New Guinea - seen from many angles.

Jack Smylie