Detail of a Tom Sachs painting on view now at Transmission LA at the MOCA Los Angeles.

Danny Sangra captures A$AP Rocky on his first trip to Paris for an upcoming film project.

Impulse Pictures will be reissuing DVD’s from Japan’s golden age of erotica from the early 70s to 80s from the Nikkatsu Film Studios. Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest major movie studio, launched their “Roman Porno” erotic film line in 1971.  Until 1988, the studio released more than one thousand of these films, made in a diverse range of styles and genres aimed squarely at the adult market. Impulse Pictures will be releasing over twenty-five Nikkatsu films. First up are two films: Sex Hell by director Koyu Ohara set in a women’s prison and Debauchery, by director Hidehiro Ito about a prostitute immersed in a life of bondage.

Koudlam performs See You All at ACME in New York for the Dom Pèrgnon dinner last Wednesday night with a video installation by Rita Ackermann.

Clad in her signature all-black attire and plum-colored lipstick, with a pensive disposition and a laugh that can only be described as infectious, the artist Kathe Burkhart presides regally over the massive paintings and wooden haiku letters that fill her light-dappled, paint-spattered Brooklyn studio. Black-and-white stills from Elizabeth Taylor films, old love letters and lists of materials are pasted to the walls; tubes and cans of acrylic paint, mannequin parts and [SEE MORE....]

Transmission LA, curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys, is a multi-disciplinary festival that will be the meeting point for the Los Angeles art and music community. The sequel to the series of festivals that premiered in Berlin last year with curator and fashion designer Raf Simons, the 17-day collaborative festival includes work by Roy Choi, Benjamin Jones, Mike Mills,Tom Sachs, Public Fiction, and additional artists and musicians. Tomorrow night Santigold opens the festival tonight at The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Transmission LA will be on view until May 6.

On view now in Toronto the Seveth Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards. Tonight will be a screening of selected films by filmmakers Erika Lust, Buck Angel, Nenna and N Maxwell Lander.

“Shia [LaBeouf] is in some ways an art rapist,” says Marilyn Manson.  Who knew the actor was such the consummate artist and publisher. LaBeouf says he “is obsessed with the history of visual culture” and puts out around 10 books a year with his publishing imprint The Campaign Book.  Right now the modest, but impressive catalogue includes graphic novels by himself like Let’s Fucking Party and Cyclical, as well as books by Marilyn Manson and Kid Kudi. Above is an illustration by LeBeouf himself from Cyclical.

An exhibition honoring the 20th anniversary of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at the Copro Gallery at Bergamont Station in Los Angeles will be on view April 21 at the  featuring rare, unreleased music from “Twin Peaks” and a special DJ set by Dean Hurley, David Lynch’s engineer and musical collaborator on his album “Crazy Clown Time.” On view April 21 until May 12 at Copro Gallery, Bergamont Station, 2525 Michigan Ave , Unit T5, Santa Monica , CA.