alberto burri

Alberto Burri, the late Italian Arte Povera artist, will have the first New York exhibition of his work in over twenty years at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in December. The show will span his entire career, with a large amount of works on view from the estate of his widow, Minsa Burri. Burri, a key figure in the Arte Povera movement, displayed an extraordinary "command of a wide variety of materials, including burlap, sack cloth, pumice, tar, plastic, Cellotex (an industrial material), ceramic and glue." A medic in World War II, much of his work suggests the horror of bloody wounds suffered on the battlefield.



ALBERTO BURRI
Mitchell-Innes & Nash
534 W. 26th St.

November 29 - January 19

banksy

Street-artist turned art-world pet Banksy will be having a show at Vanina Holasek Gallery this December. You can count on the show being crowded, and selling out, but will the work be any good?


BANKSY
Vanina Holasek Gallery
502 W. 27th St
Dec 2 - Dec 29
opening: Dec 2 1-5PM

wade guyton

Wade Guyton uses an Epson large format printer to create black monochrome paintings. This inkjet work "transcribes a visual record of the printer's actions: the trace of movement of the print heads, the varying states of their clogged-ness, the track marks of the wheels on wet ink all mixed with the scratches and smears on the paintings from being dragged across the floor to be fed back again into the printer." The results are grotesquely stunning with their raw and primitive delicacies. It's the coolest show I've seen in Chelsea this season.


WADE GUYTON
friedrich petzel gallery
537 w. 22nd
nov 13 - dec 15

francis bacon

The Postwar and Contemporary Auction at Sotheby's this week garnered $315.9 million, prooving that the art market bubble has yet to burst. Numerous artists set auction records for their prices, with the highest of the evening going to Francis Bacon's "Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1" (1969) which went for a cool $45.9 million. A $million is the new $ten thousand.

triple candie

Triple Candie is a super great gallery that is showing two interesting shows right now. In the main space is "Welcome To Tomorrowland", an exhibition of large-scale architectural models that envision the gallery's future home. In the Project Space is an installation dedicated to "The Matthew Higgs Society". Both are great and should be seen. And both are closing soon.


Triple Candie
461 W. 126th St.
at Amsterdam Ave.
NYC

martin puryear

Now at the MoMA, a retrospective of sculptor Martin Puryear. Featuring 45 pieces, the show will follow the development of his work from 1977 to the present day. Sounds like a SureThing.

Martin Puryear
MoMA
53rd St. ~ 5/6th Ave
Nov. 4 - Jan 18, 2008

el museo del barrio

"El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 007" will be on view through January 6, 2008 and really should be seen. 51 artists from NYC and Ecuador are represented with paintings, drawings, sculptures, light and sound installations, and interactive perfomance pieces. Keep an eye out for Jose Lerma's painting "Paradise" and Jose Ruiz's piece "Ghost Signatures and Minimalist Graffiti".

"El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 07"
El Museo Del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave
@ 104th St.
July 25th 2007 - January 6th 2008

anthony miler

so great. so great.

kara walker

Kara Walker seems to be everywhere these days. Now you can see her at the Whitney too. "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love" will be on view until Februray 2008. As the press release states, "The intricacy of her imagination and her diligent command of art history have caused her silhouettes to cast shadows on conventional thinking about race representation in the context of discrimination, exclusion, sexual desire, and love." Ms. Walker is one of the most important artists of our day.

Kara Walker
The Whitney Museum of Art
Madison Ave. and 75th St.
October 11 - Februrary 3, 2008

new new musuem

The new New Museum opens December 1. Finally a space strictly for contemporary art.

New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery
NYC

open studios

Join the CCNY MFA Program as they celebrate their Fall 2007 Open Studios.
Thursday, November 15 from 6-10 PM.
Art, Wine and Conversation.


The City College of New York
MFA Department
Open Studios
Thursday, Nov. 15
6-10 PM

140th and Amsterdam
1 train to 137th
A/C to 145th