12.31.2011
12.30.2011
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12.28.2011
helen frankenthaler
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Helen Frankenthaler, a "New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions," has passed away. She was 83.
12.27.2011
the guggenheim
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The Guggenheim recently announced the digitization of over 60 exhibition catalogues, now freely accessible via their archives.
12.26.2011
cullman education building
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The Cullman Education Building at the MoMA is showing rare holdings of artists' publications from Eastern and Central Europe from the 1960s and 1970s.
12.24.2011
vivian maier
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Vivian Maier, a former nanny who secretly took thousands of photographs, continues her posthumous accent with a show at Steven Kasher.
12.23.2011
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12.21.2011
fausto melotti
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Sculpture and Ceramics, at Barbara Mathes Gallery, features Fausto Melotti's "signature metal sculptures, as well as a selection of his rarely seen polychrome ceramics of the fifties and sixties."
12.20.2011
andrew moore
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Andrew Moore's photographs at the Queens Museum of Art show the ruins of Detroit after the collapse of the auto industry.
12.19.2011
david smith
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David Smith's show at the Whitney "offers new insights into the artist’s career-long involvement with geometric forms."
12.18.2011
12.17.2011
bgc booksale
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The Bard Graduate Center will host its annual Holiday Book Sale at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery December 15-18.
12.16.2011
12.15.2011
francis picabia
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Francis Picabia's show at Michael Werner focuses on work from "the mid-1930s through the 1940s and beyond, a time when Picabia experimented not only with a range of imagery but with the methods and materials of painting itself."
12.14.2011
12.13.2011
matthew brannon
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Matthew Brannon's show at Casey Kaplan suggests "various props, personas, sets, dialogues, and scenarios of an unpublished noir mystery narrative."
12.12.2011
betty woodman
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For her debut show at Salon 94, Betty Woodman "presents her monumental Roman Fresco / Places and Pleasures, originally created for and exhibited at the American Academy in Rome, Italy in 2010."
12.10.2011
suzanne mcclelland
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left, Suzanne McClelland's show at Sue Scott Gallery, "continues to investigate the space between script and physical gesture, making and unmaking what’s left in the air after action or speech."
12.09.2011
howard hodgkin
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Howard Hodgkin's work at Gagosian "is a presence that is sensed rather than apprehended, remaining resistant to interpretation, allusive, and fragmentary."
12.08.2011
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12.06.2011
nan goldin
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Scopophilia, Nan Goldin's show at Matthew Marks, "pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection."
12.05.2011
edward burtynsky
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Edward Burtynsky's work at Howard Greenberg continues to "push the boundaries of contemporary photography and social awareness."
12.03.2011
george condo
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George Condo's show at Skarstedt "continues to expand his Drawing Paintings with a series of works known as Compressions."
12.02.2011
jessica dickinson
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Jessica Dickinson's new work at James Fuentes furthers "an unstable matrix of migratory light, color, and form."