In his largest exhibition thus far, Thomas Zipp is transforming the Kunsthalle Fridericianum into a “mental institution”. For the show (WHITE REFORMATION CO-OP) MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO, Zipp combines sculptures, drawings and paintings with a comprehensive exhibition architecture to create a total installation.

Did you see The Hurt Locker? If you did, great, but if you haven’t, you should do it now. It’s a great film. Great story, great direction, great acting, great everything. It’s about a soldier who pushes all his limits (and those of the people around him) and it reveals a great truth: men love war. They love to fight and they love to win. And that’s it. As you probably already know, the director of THL is a woman by the name of Kathryn Bigelow. But what you might not know is that, besides being James Cameron’s ex-wife, Bigelow is also an ex-conceptual artist. Back in the ’70s she collaborated with people like Lawrence Weiner, Vito Acconci and Richard Serra. Some might say her conceptualist past isn’t more than a footnote in her biography, a funny anecdote to tell at a social dinners. But how can one determine whether one’s early years are just a hitch or the origin of everything that followed? Breaking Point, at castillo/corrales until March 20, traces Kathryn Bigelow’s trajectory in art in the 1970s and her subsequent progression into the contemporary popular cinematic landscape.

Ninni Morgia is a Sicilian guy who lives in New York and plays guitar in a very intense, psychedelic way. Today you can go and listen to his noise at 9 PM in via Pastrengo 12, Milan.

Kaye Donachie’s portraits recognise the charisma of a cast of historical figures including modernist performers, futurist actresses and non-conformist poets. The British artist creates portraits that serve to evoke the atmosphere of the particular time, place or movement surrounding the various subjects of her investigation. In the past, Donachie has focused her attention on hippie communes and political radicals of the 1960’s like the members of the Charles Manson family. Until April 11, at Maureen Paley, you will find beutiful portraits of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nina Hamnett, Michael Corinne West, Mina Loy and many others. Don’t miss it.

Today at Peep-Hole, from 6 to 9 p.m., will take place Mad Marginal: antipsychiatry tradition and marginality as artistic position, a workshop by Dora Garcia with Stefano Graziani, Cesare Pietroiusti and Nicola Valentino. On this occasion the new issue of Peep-Hole Sheet—the quarterly of artist’s writings published by Mousse—will also be presented. The third issue features an exclusive text by American artist Jonathan Horowitz. See you there.