The VIEWS: Three artists walk into a bar... April 30 - May 6

(Walter Bortolossi, Mark Zuckerberg meets Immanuel Kant, 2011, oil on canvas, 120 x 150cm) Three artists walk into a bar... The joke's on us because there's no punchline, as this artist collective in Amsterdam proves. But if it were a set-up for a real joke, maybe those artists could be George Grosz, Henry Darger, and R. Crumb, sitting in a dive bar where Dasha Shishkin was the bartender. Maybe a conversation arises about what's the preferred nomenclature for lady parts when discussingHannah Wilke's vaginal ceramic sculptures. Or maybe it's something about Nicolas Sarkozy, obnoxious frat-house antics and a thirty-hour non-stopperformance-art-a-thon. Or the classic(al) girls could be boys could be boys could be girls intrigue in Evgeny Mokhorev's photographs. Or we could just return to childhood, jumping on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's bunk beds. May Saint Anne have mercy... In the RACKROOM From the Archive: Trong Gia Nguyen with Marc Ganzglass. GEOSLANT Views Joel Kuennen's encounter with light, space, and the work of Anthony McCall. In the EDITIONS We've got Frieze fever as we set out for Randall's Island this week!

INTERVIEW WITH MARC GANZGLASS Opening during Frieze New York week 2012, Science on the back end, an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth curated, or rather selected, by artist Matthew Day Jackson features Larry Bamburg, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirref... [more]

THE BUZZ from other SLANT cities Los Angeles Dasha Shishkin New York Hans & Gieves, Evgeny Mokhorev London Paulina Olowska Amsterdam Haseeb Ahmed, Roi Alter , more... Paris Leonardo da Vinci Chicago Henry Darger, Minnie Evans , more... San Francisco Hannah Wilke India Sathyanand Mohan Miami Ted Vasin