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5.31.2013

rain room


Rain Room, Random International’s immersive environment installation at MoMA, "offers visitors the experience of controlling the rain."

5.29.2013

101 spring street


Donald Judd's loft at 101 Spring Street, "one of the founding sites in the program of Historic Artists' Homes and Studios for the National Trust for Historic Preservation," will be open to the public beginning June 3.

5.28.2013

jannis kounellis


Jannis Kounellis's show at Cheim and Read "incorporates the themes and concerns of Kounellis's best known work, while also reacting to and engaging with the gallery as a unique space."

5.27.2013

yoshitomo nara


Yoshitomo Nara's show at Pace "features new paintings, bronzes, and works on paper."

5.25.2013

and riding clouds


 I will be given an artist talk today at 1:00pm at Rooster Gallery for my current show And Riding Clouds.

5.24.2013

arne svenson


Arne Svenson's show at Julie Saul consists of photographs he secretly took of his neighbors, in an attempt to "capture unadulterated representations of humankind."

5.23.2013

anselm kiefer


Anselm Kiefer's show at Gagosian "further explores the historical and formal concerns of "Morgenthau Plan," his exhibition that inaugurated Gagosian Le Bourget in Paris last October."

5.22.2013

rob pruitt


The Last Panda, Rob Pruitt's show at Gavin Brown, "exploits the problematic tension of artistic invention threatened with imminent cultural extinction."

5.21.2013

brendan fowler


Brendan Folwer's show at Untitled runs through June 16.

5.20.2013

jeff koons


Jeff Koons' show at David Zwirner consists of "the world debut of a new series of sculptures."

5.18.2013

liars


Tonight at 7:00pm Liars will perform at the Temple of Denbur at the Met.

5.17.2013

julie mehretu


Julie Mehretu's show at Marian Goodman consists of "a series of new paintings as well as a suite of five new etchings."

5.16.2013

alex hubbard


Alex Hubbard's show at Maccarone consists of "seven new "bent paintings", pigmented urethane casts of a single trash painting which the artist contorts into sculpture in seven different ways."

5.15.2013

out of memory


Out of Memory, at Marianne Boesky, "brings together a diverse group of internationally based artists, who mirror the attitudes, rituals and compulsivity of the post-digital generation’s unprecedented access to an infinite database."

5.14.2013

erin shirreff


Erin Shirreff's show at Lisa Cooley "explores the effect of mediation on our experience of form."

5.13.2013

bert stern


Original Mad Man, Bert Stern's show at Staley-Wise Gallery, features "the full sweep of his remarkable career."

5.11.2013

alexi worth


Alexi Worth's show at DC Moore features "large images of private and public subjects: solitary smokers, wine-drinkers, crumpled texts, and crowds of protesters in damaged cities."

5.10.2013

blinky palermo


Blinky Palermo's show at David Zwirner "has been organized in collaboration with the Palermo Archive on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the artist’s birth."

5.09.2013

tracy emin


I Followed You To The Sun, Tracy Emin's show at Lehmann Maupin, is a "two-part exhibition featuring over 100 works of art, including a series of new bronze sculptures, paintings and drawings, embroideries, and a short film."

5.08.2013

mark di suvero


Mark di Suvero's show at Paula Cooper consists of "an assemblage of intersecting l-beams and carved kinetic spirals."

5.07.2013

ugo rondinone


Human Nature, Ugo Rondione's project for the Public Art Fund at Rockefeller Center, includes "nine colossal stone figures, standing like ancient sentries along the full length of Rockefeller Plaza between 49th and 50th Streets."

5.06.2013

elizabeth peyton


Elizabeth Peyton's show at Michael Werner brings together many of her pieces of the artist Klara Liden.

5.04.2013

body double


Body Double, at Craig F. Starr Gallery, compares the work of Jasper Johns and Bruce Nauman through "body consciousness, conceptual dash, and the color gray."

5.03.2013

grant cornett


Grant Cornett's photographs at Picture Farm in Brooklyn "shift contexts gracefully between fictional illustration, editorial, and advertising, into the exhibition space of a gallery."

5.02.2013

robert mapplethorpe


Self Portraits, Robert Mapplethorpe's show at Skarstedt, features eleven photographs that are "intensely personal and self-reflexive."