Gelitin: Palais Meyer Kainer

Transforming a gallery with a staircase made out of found scrap lumber, tree branches and reclaimed tables and chairs, Austrian art collective Gelitin's latest stunt continues their interactive work exploring materiality, DIY aesthetics and their own brand of decadent foolishness. While the title of the piece ironically refers to the gallery's location at Vienna's Palais Eschenbach, the work itself looks like the maniacally inspired work …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

1. Jacques Magazine Video: JamieIn addition to their highbrow smut on paper, the new publication Jacques also brings their aesthetic to the screen with videos like this black-and-white short featuring a beautiful topless woman starting her day. via Street Boners and TV Carnage 2. Kwakwaka'wakw ArtThe work of a native tribe from Vancouver, the bold graphic elegance of these images depicting sacred creatures fits right …

Federico Solmi: From the Uterus to the Grave with No Happy Ending

Combining luridly hand-drawn animations, paintings, mechanical sculptures and more, 2009 Guggenheim Video Art Fellow Federico Solmi continues to explore his controversial interests in sociopolitical affairs—last year his native Italy charged him with obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion—in his second solo exhibition "From Uterus to Grave With No Happy Ending," which opens tomorrow at NYC's LMAK gallery. The entrance to the show, marked with a …