gerhard richter

The first ever exhibition of Richter's work on paper in the United States, Lines Which Do Not Exist will open at the Drawing Center on September 11.

liao yibai

Bill Brady ATM Gallery has very aggressively promoted this show. It opens September 10.

leslie wayne

The doldrums of summer were interrupted by Leslie Wayne's show at Jack Shainman.

hope gangloff

I had forgotten how much I enjoy Hope Gangloff's work.

robert ryman

Autumn is the perfect time for a day trip to the Dia:Beacon to see Robert Ryman's on-going exhibit.

brice marden

It is never too early to start looking ahead. Brice Marden's show Letters at Matthew Marks opens in October.

julie mehretu

This show somehow flew under the radar. Julie Mehretu: Grey Area,, which has been up since May, closes October 6.

james franco

James Franco's first solo exhibition, The Dangerous Book Four Boys, is on view at AIR's Clocktower Gallery.

bove, ruby and schutz

The Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby and Dana Schutz show at Andrea Rosen closes this week.

sound of art

Art Fag City is celebrating its 5-year Anniversary with The Sound of Art, a "documentation of the sounds heard in galleries, museums, and project spaces in New York over the past five years." Submit.

abdi farah

The Brooklyn Museum is giving Abdi Farah a show, because he won a television program.

michelangelo pistoletto

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's survey of Michelangelo Pistoletto, From One to Many, will "trace the progression of his artistic focus from a rigorous investigation of the representations of the self in the mid-1950s to his collaborative actions of the mid-1970s that lie at the heart of many artists’ participatory practices today."

a bell for every minute

A Bell For Every Minute, a sound installation by Stephen Vitiello, will remain at the High Line through the rest of the summer.

video courtesy of Creative Time

rafael sanchez

Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award, presents a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work, at Exit Art through the end of August.

egon schiele

Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally is on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through August 18. This is the only chance to see it in the states before it moves to its permanent home at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

otto dix

The Neue Galerie's exhibition of Otto Dix closes at the end of August. This is the "first solo museum exhibition of works by this major German artist ever held in North America," and should be seen.

bruce nauman

"A recent addition to the Museum’s collection, Bruce Nauman’s Days (2009) was created for, and debuted at, the 2009 Venice Biennale, where the artist represented the United States with the solo exhibition Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens. Days is a “sound sculpture” consisting of a continuous stream of seven voices reciting the days of the week in random order. Fourteen suspended speakers are installed in two rows with one voice emanating from each pair of speakers as the visitor passes between them. There are men’s voices and women’s voices, old and young. Some speak swiftly, others with pause, each with his or her own cadence. The collection of distinctive voices produces a chorus—at times cacophonous, at others, resonant—and creates a sonic cocoon that envelops the visitor. The work invokes both the banality and the profundity of the passing of each day, and invites reflection on how we measure, differentiate, and commemorate time."