erikjsommer.com

1.30.2009

miroslaw balka


Miroslaw Balka will become the 10th artist to be featured in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Balka, a Polish born artist whose "work contains references to his Catholic upbringing, to his country’s past, the Nazi Holocaust, love and death," will create a piece for the five-story space to be shown in October.

story here and here

1.29.2009

yaddo


The D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library has an exhibition that explores the role of Yaddo, the artist retreat, in "fostering 20th-century American arts and letters. Founded in 1900 by financier and philanthropist Spencer Trask and his wife, Katrina Trask, Yaddo began receiving guests in 1926 and was immediately hailed by The New York Times as a "new and unique experiment, which has no exact parallel in the world of fine arts." Since that inaugural season, Yaddo has navigated the roiled cultural and political life of 20th-century America while hosting thousands of artists and writers, including such luminaries as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Jacob Lawrence, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Guston and Sylvia Plath."

Yaddo: Making American Culture
D. Samual and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue at 42nd Street

October 24 - February 15

1.27.2009

peter doig


Peter Doig has a joint exhibition at Gavin Brown's enterprise and Michael Werner Gallery. This is his first solo show of new work to be held in the states in nearly ten years.

Peter Doig
New Paintings

Michael Werner Gallery
4 E. 77th St.

Gavin Brown's enterprise
620 Greenwich St.

January 17 - March 14

1.25.2009

rachel reese


Rachel Reese's MFA Thesis Show Auspex will run from January 26 - February 6 at The City College Art Gallery. With work that is both playful and profound, Reese's future is very bright.


Rachel Reese
Auspex
The City College Art Gallery
1619 Amsterdam at 140th St.

January 26 - February 6

1.24.2009

david zwirner


There are two great shows now at David Zwirner. Fred Sandback's yarn sculptures outline planes and volumes in space. On Kawara's One Million Years is "a monumental 20-volume collection, comprised of One Million Years [Past], created in 1969 and containing the years 998,031 B.C. through 1969 A.D., and One Million Years [Future], created in 1981 and containing the years 1996 A.D. to 1,001,995 A.D. Together these volumes make up 2,000,000 years." Visitors to the gallery can witness the reading and recording of this epic piece.


David Zwirner
519/525 W. 19th St.

January 14 - February 14

1.22.2009

amy sillman


The Amy Sillman show at Sikkema Jenkins should be seen.


Amy Sillman
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 W. 22nd St.

January 17 - February 21

1.20.2009

1.16.2009

andrew wyeth


Andrew Wyeth, best known for his iconic painting “Christina’s World,” has passed away. He was 91.

1.14.2009

museo del prado


Google Earth has teamed up with the Museo del Prado to film and present 14 masterpieces from its collection. According to Google,"the paintings have been photographed in very high resolution and contain as many as 14,000 million pixels (14 gigapixels). With this high level resolution you are able to see fine details such as the tiny bee on a flower in The Three Graces (Las Tres Gracias), delicate tears on the faces of the figures in The Descent from the Cross (El Descendimiento) and complex figures in The Garden of Earthly Delights (El Jardin de las Delicias)."

more here

1.12.2009

anthony miler


Anthony Miler's website is up and running. Visit often.

1.10.2009

stop - action!


Adarsh Alphons has curated a show at The Harlem School of the Arts that features work by Ryan Hartley Smith, Rudy Collins and Kyu Seok Oh. While in the neighborhood stop by St. Nick's Jazz Pub for some of the best live music in the city.


stop - action!
The Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Avenue, at 141st Street

January 8 - February 3

1.06.2009

imi knoebel


Imi Knoebel, whose painting "24 Colors - For Blinky" is currently on view at Dia: Beacon, has a show at Mary Boone opening this week. A student of Joseph Beuys, Knoebel's work incorporates painting, sculpture and architecture as he investigates space, pictorial support and color.

Imi Knoebel
Mary Boone Gallery
541 W. 24th Street

January 8 - February 14

1.02.2009

william eggleston


The first American retrospective of William Eggleston closes at the end of this month at the Whitney. The show includes both color and black-and-white photographs, as well as a video piece from the 1970s. Eggleston is widely regarded as securing a legitimate place for photography in the history of art.


William Eggleston
Democratic Camera
Whitney Museum of American Art
Madison Ave at 75th Street

November 7 - January 25