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1.31.2012

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."

1.30.2012

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.

1.28.2012

monogold


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

1.27.2012

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.'"

1.26.2012

nick mauss


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

1.25.2012

jason fox


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

1.24.2012

günther förg


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

1.23.2012

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.

1.21.2012

graham durward


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

1.20.2012

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."

1.19.2012

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."

1.18.2012

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.

1.17.2012

on kawara


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

1.16.2012

bill jensen


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

1.14.2012

dana schutz


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

1.13.2012

hanksy


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

1.12.2012

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."

1.11.2012

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."

1.10.2012

lola montes schnabel


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

1.09.2012

ai weiwei


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

1.07.2012

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.

1.06.2012

icp

1.05.2012

kianja strobert


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

1.04.2012

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."

1.03.2012

jeff wall


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

1.02.2012

sarah sze


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