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Art inspired by the Lower East Side is coming to Whole Foods.

The grocery chain's Bowery location will open a pop-up gallery in September, offering an exhibit of neighborhood-centric pieces, said Natalie Raben, spokeswoman for the Lower East Side Business Improvement District, which is co-hosting the show.

Whole Foods and the BID are asking artists to submit drawings, paintings and photos for the show, which will be hung on the second-floor mezzanine. A panel of BID and Whole Foods representatives, as well as community group like Fourth Arts Block, will choose five winners whose work will be on display for a month.

In case further proof was needed that Silicon Valley has become an art destination in its own right, Pace Gallery has announced that the pop-up space it opened in Menlo Park last March — and intended to keep open for just three months — will remain open until the end of 2014.  “We’re having too much fun to stop,” Pace president Marc Glimcher told Artinfo on a phone call from California. Located in a former Tesla dealership on the El Camino Real highway, the gallery plans to keep its current Tara Donovan exhibition up until the end of the summer and then mount a cross-generational group exhibition in the fall.

For Glimcher, the project has been a way to get away from gallery business as usual. “It’s a fresh group of people with a great energy,” he said. “They’re really interested in what the artists are trying to accomplish. Conversations here are about the art, the artists, history. A lot less about auctions, art fairs, and prices. The art market is just not that fascinating. It’s very refreshing to talk about the art.”

On Thursday, May 22, “Tara Donovan: Untitled” opened at Pace Gallery’s pop-up in Menlo Park, California. It will be the final exhibition held at the Gallery’s temporary West Coast location. Prior to the Tara Donovan show, Pace presented an exhibition of stabiles, bronzes, standing and hanging mobiles, colorful gouaches, and wearable jewelry by Alexander Calder. Pace, which specializes in contemporary art, has permanent spaces in New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

“Untitled” surveys work by the Brooklyn-based artist Tara Donovan from 2000 to the present. Donovan is best known for her large-scale installations and sculptures made from manufactured materials, such as Scotch tape, Styrofoam cups, paper plates, toothpicks, and plastic drinking straws. Donovan creates her process-driven works by repeatedly layering a single material until an everyday object is transformed into a complex, otherworldly work of art. Donovan also plays with perceptual phenomenon through light and scale, using a variety of materials and three-dimensional forms to create captivating optical effects.