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Land Grab, a group show addressing the politics of land occupation on both local and global scales, is open at apexart through December 22nd. This show provides eye-opening accounts of how public space often excludes people based on class, race, and sexuality.

(Lasse Lau, Secret Bush Planting, 2005. Image: lasselau.dk)

Carey Young’s If/Then, opening at Paula Cooper Gallery through January 12th, explores the frontier spaces of globalized commerce.

(Carey Young, both images from the Body Techniques series, 2007. Courtesy: Paula Cooper Gallery.)

Yo .n .I, new work by Global Feminisms artist Wangechi Mutu, is presented by Victoria Miro in London through January 19th. The title of Mutu’s exhibition is derived from the Sanskrit “yoni,” or “divine passage.” Appropriately, in this work Mutu considers the unification of within and without.

(Wangechi Mutu, A dragon kiss always ends in ashes, 2007. Courtesy: Victoria Miro.)

Opening…

Work by Phranc, artist and folk singer-songwriter of 1980s L.A. punk scene note, opens December 6th at Cue Art Foundation. Phranc and curator/feminist performance artist Ann Magnuson will be speaking with William Corbett on December 7th at 6:30pm, followed by a performance.

Fame, new video and photographic work by Jeremy Kost, on view beginning early December at Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C.

(Jeremy Kost, Fame (Lindsay Lohan), screenprint on canvas, 2007. Image: Conner Contemporary Art.)