This Week in LA

First Annual LA Art Book Fair, February 1-3
The companion to the NY Art Book Fair in October, the LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by 220 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

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Outsider Art Fair, January 31 - February 3, 2013
The leading, annual event in the field of Outsider, Self-Taught and Folk Art. Recognized for its maverick spirit, the fair has played a vital role in building a passionate collecting community for 15 years. Now under Wide Open Arts, a new company formed by art dealer Andrew Edlin, the Outsider Art Fair has moved to Chelsea at the site of the former Dia Foundation and will continue to provide a dynamic atmosphere for dealers to showcase compelling and unusual art works and present special events and programs. Center 548, 548 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Above: Francis Alÿs (In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi), video capture from REEL-UNREEL, 2011; Single channel video projection, 19:28 min, color, sound. Continuing through February 9 at David Zwirner, 525-533 West 19^th Street, NY, NY. View Francis Alys's videos here.

Tuesday, January 29

Opening reception, 6:30 pm: Lessons from Modernism, which examines selected works of architecture completed between 1925-70 through the lens of sustainability. The Arthur A. Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7^th Street, between 3^rd and 4^thAvenues, NY, NY. Information.

Book launch party, 6-8 pm: Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield | The Art of Doing. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

School of Visual Arts presents, 7 pm: The Spring 2013 Art in the First Person lecture series. Tonight: Photographer and filmmaker Jean-Christian Bourcart, 136 West 21^st Street, Room 418F, NY, NY. Free and open to the public. Information.

Curator talk/Q&A, 7 pm: Roman Vishniac Rediscovered: A Lecture with Maya Benton and Q&A with Alana Newhouse. School at ICP, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets $15/Free.

Wednesday, January 30

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Max Warsh | Bilder. Toomer Labzda, 100a Forsyth Street, between Grand and Broome Streets, NY, NY.

The Lower East Side Printshop presents, 6-8 pm: How To Emerge, a career development discussion with artist Sebastiaan Bremer. 306 West 37^th Street, 6^th Floor, NY, NY. Tickets $15/$12.

The Photographers Lecture Series presents, 7 pm: Ari Marcopoulos, moderated by Philip S. Block. Tickets/ $15. The School at ICP, Shooting Studio 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY.

Thursday, January 31

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: How & Nossum | Late Confessions. Jonathan LeVine Gallery pop-up location, 557 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.RSVP appreciated.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Photography | William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, Martin Parr, Terry Richardson, and Stephen Shore.Curated by Ken Miller. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 pm: Kazuo Sumida | Notes from Underground: Memories of My Uncle, with performances by Japanese dancer Nana Miki and French actress/singer Flo Ankah from 6-7 pm. Laurence Miller Gallery, 20 West 57^th Street, NY, NY.

School of Visual Arts Office of Alumni Affairs presents, 7-9 pm: Post-Sandy Panel Discussion with Charles H. Traub, artist and chair of the MFA Photography and Related Media Department; John Mattiuzzi (MFA 2012 Computer Art) will discuss his video Frankenstorm, capturing the human and emotional impact of the storm in Brooklyn; Jessica Rionero (BFA 2010 Film and Video) and BeGracious.org Founder Chelsea Marino explain the non-profit’s mission to raise money for the purpose of re-building people's homes; Dena Muller, director of new initiatives at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), discusses the impact the storm has had on the wider community as well as the art world, and what steps NYFA is taking to provide assistance. SVA, 209 East 23^rd Street, 3^rd Floor Amphitheater, NY, NY. Free and open to the public.

In Newark, NJ Opening reception, 5-7 pm: No Place Like Home, featuring works by Corinne May Botz, Marisa DiPaola, Kate Gilmore, Thomas Green, Mikhail Gubin, Louise Halsey, Sarah Hoskins, Aron G. Johnston Jr., Stephen Lorber, George Lorio, Jeanette May, Caitlin Parker, Martha Rosler, and David H. Wells. Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Newark, NJ.

In Stoneham, MA Artist reception and talk, 6-7:30 pm: Saul Robbins | Initial Intake. Griffin Museum of Photography, 37 Main Street, Stoneham, MA.

Above: Sarah Hoskins, Hog and Gun, 2002, from The Homeplace; work from this series is represented in No Place Like Home [above].

Friday, February 1

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: X-tra, featuring works by Lisa Beck, Lydia Dona, Scott Grodesky, Black Lake, Fabian Marcaccio, Kanishka Raja,Peter Rostovsky, Daniel Wiener. Leslie Heller Workspace, 54 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening day, 10 am-6 pm: David “Chim” Seymour and Roman Vishniac. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, Suite 1406, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6 pm: Illustrators 55 Part Two | Editorial, Book, and Advertising, featuring a live performance by The Half-Tones, with Barry Blitt (keyboard), Kenny Wessel (guitar), Joe Fitzgerald (bass), Joe Ciardiello (drums). Refreshments and cash bar. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening day, 11am – 6 pm: Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture. Featuring works by artists Nick Cave, Thornton Dial, Tom Friedman, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Betsy Saar, Bill Viola; and architects Greg Lynn, Kate Orff and MosheSafedie. National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue, at 89^th Street, NY, NY.

Above: Holly Roberts, Couple Dancing (2012), included in the exhibition As the Crow Flies, continuing through March 2 at Catherine Edelman Gallery. 300 W. Superior Street, Chicago, IL.

Saturday, February 2

Opening reception, 2-6 pm: Nevermore | featuring works by gallery artists: Athansios Argianas, Maiken Bent, John Brill, Liam Everett, ZiporaFried, Samara Golden, Leigh Ledare, Dorothea Tanning, This is our work, and Hans Witschel. On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

In Los Angeles The LA Art Book Fair presents, 2 pm: Photography Publishing in Transition, with Chris Boot, Executive Director of Aperture Foundation. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Free with fair admission. Information.

Sunday, February 2

In Pasadena Discussion, 3 pm: Artist Jessica Rath, Cornell University apple breeder Dr. Susan K. Brown, and Cal State University Long Beach Art Museum curator Kristina Newhouse discuss the human need to beget beauty in art and food and the drive to share it through horticultural cloning and aesthetic mimesis in connection with the exhibition take me to the apple breeder. Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 East Union Street, Pasadena, CA.