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8.31.2011

residency unlimited


Residency Unlimited seeks a New York City based artist for an 8 month residency in Brooklyn. The residency begins October 1 and the deadline to apply is September 9. More information may be found here.

8.30.2011

lisa yuskavage


It is a month away, but the Lisa Yuskavage show at David Zwiner should be fun.

8.29.2011

kiseok kim


Kiseok Kim's show Plastics at Hionas Gallery opens September 9.

8.27.2011

ryan trecartin


Ryan Trecartin's, another young digital artist, show at MoMA PS1 consists of seven films that "are interconnected spatially via networked viewing rooms and materially by characters, semblances of plot, and formal, recurring motifs."

8.26.2011

cory arcangel


Cory Arcangel, the art world's current it-boy, has a show at the Whitney with work that has "been created by means of technological tools with an emphasis on the mixing and matching of both professional and amateur technologies, as well as the vernaculars these technologies encourage within culture at large."

8.25.2011

stefanie gutheil


Stefanie Gutheil's show at Mike Weiss opens September 8.

8.22.2011

the women in our life


Cheim & Read celebrate their fifteenth anniversary with a group show of the women with whom they work.

8.20.2011

andrea ursuta


Andra Ursuta's show at Ramiken Crucible consists of a single sculpture that "depicts the aftermath of the artist’s attempt to catapult herself into space using a large medieval siege engine."

8.19.2011

hilary lloyd


Hilary Lloyd's show at Artist Space consists of video diptychs of mundane subjects presented on flat-screen televisions mounted on steel poles.

8.18.2011

leo villareal


Leo Villareal's Volume at Gering & Lopez consists of a single piece made from "20,000 white LED nodes that are suspended in a three-dimensional matrix of mirror-finished stainless steel." Experience it before August 19.

8.17.2011

david lachapelle


Raft of Illusion: Raging Toward Truth, David LaChapelle's large photo-based mixed media piece, is being shown at the Lever House through September 2.

8.16.2011

maskull lasserre


Artist Maskull Lasserre carves skeletal features into wooden objects.

8.15.2011

nancy palubniak


Nancy Palubniak's show at Alliance Gallery opens August 26.

8.13.2011

cy twombly


Cy Twombly's sculpture exhibit at the MoMA hasn't been getting much press, which is too bad. The seven pieces on view are composed "from found materials, small objects, scrap wood, and plaster," and covered in white paint for "an ethereal presence."

8.12.2011

henry codax


Henry Codax's show at Carriage Trade closes August 13.

8.11.2011

the bowery


The Bowery, Raoul Walsh's "rowdy celebration of Gay 90s low life," is playing at the Film Forum.

8.10.2011

de kooning


The "first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning" opens at the MoMA in September.

8.09.2011

newcriteria


newcriteria is a nice, new art blog. Hop in.

8.08.2011

lisa cooley


Lisa Cooley presents work by Miriam Böhm, Rosy Keyser, and Erin Shirreff that "share a nuanced exploration of visual perception and the subjective excesses it enables."

8.06.2011

la carte d'apres nature


La Carte d'apres Nature, curated by Thomas Demand, features "works by artists whose concern with the natural world connects them across spatial and temporal distances."

8.04.2011

un(framed)


The Center for Book Arts presents The Un(Framed) Photograph, an exhibit featuring "current members of CBA's artistic community and other invited artists whose work will further the discourse, focuses on how the art of photography, the photographic process, and related media, such as video stills, are used to convey content, form, text, and image within a broader context of book arts practices."

8.03.2011

yago hortal


Yago Hortal's show at Rooster opens August 4.

8.02.2011

erik benson


Erik Benson will have a show at Edward Tyler Nahem in September.

8.01.2011

wanna see my portfolio?


Wanna See My Portfolio?, at Pace/MacGill, consists of portfolios produced by Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Robert Rauschenberg, and Garry Winogrand.