best of 2012

Soloway presents The Best of 2012, "the finest combination of established experts and promising adepts in the fields of art-creation and meaning-production."

on the street

On February 1 at 7:00PM the NYPL Stephen Schwarzman Building presents On The Street, a film that documents Amy Arbus as she tracks down the subjects of her photographs from 30 years ago.

monogold

Monogold have a show Saturday night at The Schoolhouse in Brooklyn.

joyce pensato

Joyce Pensato's show at Friedrich Petzel features "paintings and drawings incorporating her familiar cartoon imagery of clowns, Homer Simpson, Groucho Marx, Mickey Mouse, and a character the artist refers to as 'The Juicer.'"

nick mauss

Nick Mauss's show at 303 Gallery "articulates the experience of looking at something that you have seen, thought about and made."

jason fox

Jason Fox's show at Peter Blum "creates a dialogue between pop culture, religious icons, and abstraction."

günther förg

Günther Förg's work at Greene Naftali "reduces the act of painting to its most elemental gesture, monumentalized on a human scale."

artists' book not artists' book

ARTISTS’ BOOK NOT ARTISTS’ BOOK, at Boo-Hooray, includes work by Chris Burden, Ira Cohen, Richard Meltzer, John Baldessari, Seth Price, Richard Hell, and many others.

graham durward

Graham Durward's show at Louis B. James "renders formally the intangibility and ephemerality of desire."

slater bradley

Don't Let Me Disappear, Slater Bradley's video at Team, "follows Bradley’s Doppelgänger, model and actor Benjamin Brock, as he wanders alone through New York City."

michael snow

Michael Snow's show at Jack Shainman "examines the act of looking and the process of viewing though projections, holography and photo-based works."

london art fair

The London Art Fair, of which I was invited to participate by Pertwee, Anderson & Gold, runs January 18-22 at the Business Design Centre.

on kawara

Parts of On Kawara's infamous Today series is at David Zwirner.

bill jensen

Bill Jensen's show at Cheim & Read features "saturated densely worked surfaces" that "seemingly transcend any sense of the struggle."

dana schutz

Götterdämmerung, Dana Schutz's show at Gallery Met, is based on Wagner's final installment of the Ring.

hanksy

Hanksy (who is it??) has a show at Krause Gallery that opens Friday the 13th.

benjamin kress

Benjamin Kress's show at Callicoon Fine Arts features masks that serve "as a potent symbol of mortality and transformation, extending the genres of self-portraiture and allegorical painting."

david gilbert

Angels, David Gilbert's show at von Nichtssagend Gallery, features paper, fabric and string installations that are photographed to create "a dialogue between image and actuality."

lola montes schnabel

The Hole presents Lola Montes Schnabel's first solo painting exhibition in the United States.

ai weiwei

Ai Weiwei, the most talked about artist of 2011, brings his installation Sunflower Seeds to Mary Boone.

the wedding

The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project), curated by Ydessa Hendeles, explores the architectural space and dichotomy between the Polaroids and Andrea Rosen Gallery.

icp

The International Center of Photography recently announced its Winter 2012 Lecture Series.

kianja strobert

Going on Foot, Kianja Strobert's show at Zach Feur, closes January 14.

esther kläs

Nobody Home, Esther Kläs's show at Peter Blum, consists of "a group of work that specify the strength and independence of sculpture."

jeff wall

Jeff Wall's show at Marian Goodman closes January 21.

sarah sze

Infinite Line, Sarah Sze's show at the Asia Society, features her first works on paper.