There are a bunch more nice openings across the globe that we didn’t mention earlier this week, we’ll start off with Brett Cook at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco this Saturday.

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We’re not quite sure how to describe I’ll Be John Brown‘s music.  It’s like almost Psychedelic Speed Country, if that makes sense?  Have a listen over at their site, and if you’re into it, they’ll be playing a show at Spike Hill in Brooklyn this Sunday night.

Opening this Saturday is a great show with a nice concept, and the longest artist list I think I’ve ever seen.  Curated by Jordan Isip and Rodger Stevens,

“Dime Bag 3 is the ninth in an ongoing series of events by Isip and Stevens, bringing together over 200 artists from New York City and beyond representing an extraordinary variety of disciplines. Painters, illustrators, graphic designers, filmmakers, photographers, product designers, and others have been invited to create artworks specifically designed to be exhibited in 3-inch plastic bags: dime bags. Each artist was sent one of the symbolic baggies and asked to fill it in any way they wished.”

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We have a bunch of friends in this show, so stop by and show some love.

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Lot 211 – Phillips De Pury, Modern and Contemporary Editions, November 23rd
ED RUSCHA
Yo, 1991
Lithograph, on Arches paper, with full margins, I. 6 x 4 1/4 in. (15.2 x 10.8 cm) S. 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)  signed, dated and numbered 7/30 in pencil (there was also an edition of 10 in Roman numerals), published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque (with their blindstamps), in excellent condition, framed.
ESTIMATE $1,800-2,500

For this months Interesting Lots, I decided to turn my attention to the print market and two auctions happening in the coming week, Prints & Multiples at Christie’s in London and a very strong Modern and Contemporary Editions at Phillips De Pury in New York.  Big names and great pieces at affordable prices.  After the jump, some excellent options.

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Check out the list according to Smashing Magazine, “35 Beautiful Album Covers”, S.F. has a few in the list. What, no Joy Division? Such a travesty.

Elton John pictured above.

Thanks again Porridge

Everything and anything, in a way, can be pretty ugly.

ARTISTS INCLUDE: Pierre Alechinsky, John Alexander, Ida Applebroog, John Armleder, Kristin Baker, Georg Baselitz, Hans Bellmer, Lynda Benglis, Carol Bove, Glenn Brown, Guy Bourdin, Louise Bourgeois, Günter Brus, Bernard Buffet, Chapman Brothers, James Lee Byars, Brian Calvin, Chivas Clem, Ann Craven, Roberto Cuoghi, John Currin, Verne Dawson, Otto Dix, Richard Diebenkorn, Louise Fishman, Mark Flood, Llyn Foulkes, Gelitin, Isa Genzken, Nan Goldin, Leon Golub, Mark Grotjahn, Marsden Hartley, Eva Hesse, Jonathan Horowitz, Gary Hume, Jörg Immendorff, Tony Just, Alex Katz, Karen Kilimnik, Martin Kippenberger, Bruce LaBruce, Eugéne Leroy, Lee Lozano, Markus Lüpertz, Edward Middleton Manigault, Paul McCarthy, Cory McCorkle, John McCracken, Otto Muehl, Takashi Murakami, Alice Neel, Hermann Nitsch, Jim Nutt, Albert Oehlen,Laura Owens, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Francis Picabia, Jack Pierson, Rob Pruitt, Carol Rama, Charles Ray, Anselm Reyle, Julian Schnabel, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Agathe Snow, Frances Stark, Pat Steir, Haim Steinbach, Stanislaw Szukalski, Richard Tuttle, Piotr Uklanski, Kaari Upson, Stan VanDerBeek, Erik van Lieshout, Abraham Walkowitz, Andy Warhol, Hans Weigand, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Sue Williams and others….

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The walls are now painted purple at Phillips De Pury, an inspiring color for the forthcoming Saturday @ Phillips auction. The idea of kids watching Saturday morning cartoons bounced around as I entered the toy room where two of Kaws‘ vinyls are the centerpiece. The brown dissected companion took a main page of what will be a coveted catalogue in years to come. As the auction approaches, collectors worldwide will be focusing in on his work specifically as this is the first introduction of his vinyls to the auction world. There are many other interesting pieces, as well. A nice Barry McGee liquor bottle sits just to the right of Kaws, a set of Jeff Koons’ Supreme Monkey Train Skate decks around another corner, and many, many Murakami’s. Saturday @ Phillips is for the younger collectors, but maybe the older ones have started to realize that we have all come to play and they need to catch up. All is fun on a Saturday morning.

After the jump some more highlights.
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Photographed at the Corcoran Museum, in DC, during the J.Seward Johnson exhibit. (Manet’s Olympia). Photographed by 13inc