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klara liden

2012-02-13T00:08:00.000-05:00

Pretty Vacant, Klara Liden's show at Reena Spaulings, closes February 19.

jon kessler

2012-02-11T01:05:00.000-05:00

The Blue Period, Jon Kessler's show at Salon 94, consists of "kinetic machines, surveillance cameras, video monitors and life-size cardboard figures."

graham durward

2012-02-10T02:01:00.000-05:00

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

antoni tàpies

2012-02-09T00:56:00.001-05:00

doug wheeler

2012-02-08T02:51:00.002-05:00

Doug Wheeler's SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 at David Zwirner "explores the materiality of light while emphasizing the viewer’s physical experience of infinite space."

terry winters

2012-02-07T02:49:00.002-05:00

Terry Winters' show at Matthew Marks "depicts forms inspired by mathematical concepts like tessellations and knot theory, as well as shapes from the natural and scientific worlds."

jean dubuffet

2012-02-06T00:46:00.001-05:00

The Last Two Years, at The Pace Gallery, focuses on Dubuffet's final works.

jordan wolfson

2012-02-04T00:41:00.001-05:00

Jordan Wolfson's show at Alex Zachary Peter Currie runs through February 18.

sergej jensen

2012-02-03T01:35:00.003-05:00

Sergej Jensen's show at Anton Kern features more of his processed mixed-medium fabrics.

tony cragg

2012-02-02T03:27:00.003-05:00

Tony Cragg's show at Marian Goodman features "recent sculptures in bronze, corten steel, wood, cast iron, and stone."

rashid johnson

2012-02-01T00:59:00.002-05:00

Rashid Johnson's show at Hauser & Wirth closes February 25.

best of 2012

2012-01-31T00:40:00.001-05:00

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

2012-01-30T00:51:00.000-05:00

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

2012-01-28T04:43:00.001-05:00

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

joyce pensato

2012-01-27T00:36:00.000-05:00

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

2012-01-26T01:33:00.001-05:00

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

jason fox

2012-01-25T02:28:00.002-05:00

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

günther förg

2012-01-24T02:23:00.005-05:00

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

2012-01-23T00:45:00.001-05:00

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

2012-01-21T01:02:00.006-05:00

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

slater bradley

2012-01-20T00:51:00.003-05:00

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

2012-01-19T03:42:00.003-05:00

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

2012-01-18T00:24:00.000-05:00

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

2012-01-17T03:36:00.003-05:00

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

bill jensen

2012-01-16T00:19:00.003-05:00

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

dana schutz

2012-01-14T01:11:00.000-05:00

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

hanksy

2012-01-13T01:36:00.014-05:00

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

benjamin kress

2012-01-12T03:23:00.000-05:00

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

2012-01-11T09:13:00.004-05:00

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

2012-01-10T03:27:00.000-05:00

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

ai weiwei

2012-01-09T00:22:00.000-05:00

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

the wedding

2012-01-07T01:10:00.000-05:00

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

2012-01-06T01:04:00.000-05:00

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

kianja strobert

2012-01-05T00:45:00.000-05:00

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

esther kläs

2012-01-04T00:41:00.000-05:00

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

2012-01-03T00:38:00.000-05:00

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

sarah sze

2012-01-02T00:35:00.000-05:00

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

new photography

2011-12-31T00:30:00.000-05:00

The 2011 New Photography showcase at the MoMA closes January 16.

margaret evangeline

2011-12-30T01:14:00.000-05:00

Margaret Evangeline's show at Stux opens January 5.

whitney biennial

2011-12-29T00:05:00.000-05:00

The Whitney has announced the artists participating in its 2012 Biennial.

helen frankenthaler

2011-12-28T09:00:00.002-05:00

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.

the guggenheim

2011-12-27T00:06:00.000-05:00

The Guggenheim recently announced the digitization of over 60 exhibition catalogues, now freely accessible via their archives.

cullman education building

2011-12-26T00:02:00.001-05:00

The Cullman Education Building at the MoMA is showing rare holdings of artists' publications from Eastern and Central Europe from the 1960s and 1970s.

vivian maier

2011-12-24T01:14:00.000-05:00

Vivian Maier, a former nanny who secretly took thousands of photographs, continues her posthumous accent with a show at Steven Kasher.

tommy hartung

2011-12-23T00:12:00.000-05:00

Anna, Tommy Hartung's show at On Stellar Rays, closes December 23.

simone jones

2011-12-22T00:09:00.000-05:00

Simone Jones's show at Ronald Feldman explores the relationship between time and space.

fausto melotti

2011-12-21T01:06:00.000-05:00

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."

andrew moore

2011-12-20T00:03:00.000-05:00

Andrew Moore's photographs at the Queens Museum of Art show the ruins of Detroit after the collapse of the auto industry.

david smith

2011-12-19T01:01:00.000-05:00

David Smith's show at the Whitney "offers new insights into the artist’s career-long involvement with geometric forms."

dead sea scrolls

2011-12-18T01:57:00.000-05:00

The Dead Sea Scrolls are on view at Discovery Times Square.

bgc booksale

2011-12-17T00:51:00.000-05:00

The Bard Graduate Center will host its annual Holiday Book Sale at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery December 15-18.

damien hirst

2011-12-16T00:01:00.001-05:00

Damien Hirst's The Complete Spot Paintings takes over Gagosian on January 12.

francis picabia

2011-12-15T00:51:00.000-05:00

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."

daniel gordon

2011-12-14T00:38:00.000-05:00

Daniel Gordon's show at WALLSPACE closes December 17.

matthew brannon

2011-12-13T00:34:00.000-05:00

Matthew Brannon's show at Casey Kaplan suggests "various props, personas, sets, dialogues, and scenarios of an unpublished noir mystery narrative."

betty woodman

2011-12-12T00:04:00.000-05:00

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."

suzanne mcclelland

2011-12-10T01:01:00.000-05:00

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."

howard hodgkin

2011-12-09T00:56:00.001-05:00

Howard Hodgkin's work at Gagosian "is a presence that is sensed rather than apprehended, remaining resistant to interpretation, allusive, and fragmentary."

teresa henriques

2011-12-08T00:43:00.000-05:00

Problem, Teresa Henriques's show at Rooster Gallery, opens December 8.

layer current

2011-12-07T01:45:00.002-05:00

Layer Current, a group show at Like the Spice Gallery, opens December 8.

nan goldin

2011-12-06T03:34:00.000-05:00

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."

edward burtynsky

2011-12-05T00:31:00.000-05:00

Edward Burtynsky's work at Howard Greenberg continues to "push the boundaries of contemporary photography and social awareness."

george condo

2011-12-03T02:25:00.000-05:00

George Condo's show at Skarstedt "continues to expand his Drawing Paintings with a series of works known as Compressions."

jessica dickinson

2011-12-02T01:14:00.000-05:00

Jessica Dickinson's new work at James Fuentes furthers "an unstable matrix of migratory light, color, and form."

jeronimo elespe

2011-12-01T00:09:00.000-05:00

Jeronimo Elespe's show at Eleven Rivington runs through December 4.

carsten höller

2011-11-30T01:05:00.000-05:00

Carsten Höller: Experience, at the New Museum, "gathers together a number of the artist’s signature works in an arrangement that transforms the viewer’s experience of time and space."

eddie martinez

2011-11-29T01:18:00.000-05:00

Everybody loves Eddie Martinez.

robert graham

2011-11-28T20:13:00.002-05:00

David Zwirner currently has several shows worth seeing, including Robert Graham's Early Work 1963-1973.

alex kanevsky

2011-11-26T01:29:00.001-05:00

Alex Kanevsky's show at J. Cacciola closes December 31.

marc trujillo

2011-11-25T00:26:00.001-05:00

Marc Trujillo has a show at Hirschl & Adler Modern that closes December 3.

amaranth ehrenhalt

2011-11-24T00:24:00.000-05:00

Amaranth Ehrenhalt's show at Anita Shapolsky runs through January 31.

edwin dickinson

2011-11-23T00:18:00.000-05:00

An Edwin Dickinson retrospective opens November 28 at Babcock Galleries.

paul balmer

2011-11-22T01:15:00.000-05:00

Paul Balmer has a show opening at Arden Gallery in Boston on December 9.

aleksandr kosenkov

2011-11-21T01:10:00.000-05:00

Aleksander Kosenkov's show at TEN43 runs through December 10.

tom evans

2011-11-19T12:34:00.004-05:00

Tom Evans's show at Sideshow opens November 19.

german traces NYC

2011-11-18T12:11:00.000-05:00

The Goethe-Institut New York and Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, celebrate the launch of German Traces NYC, a project that brings German traces in NYC to life via a mobile website and augmented reality.

social forces visualized

2011-11-17T01:02:00.000-05:00

The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Social Forces Visualized, "an innovative view of the beginnings of social documentary photography in the United States."

ken walker

2011-11-16T01:00:00.000-05:00

Ken Walker's MFA Thesis exhibition is currently on view at The City College. There will be a reception on Thursday, November 17, from 6-8pm

Location: Compton-Goethals Hall Gallery
(corner of 140th Street and Amsterdam Ave.)

knoedler & company

2011-11-15T00:46:00.000-05:00

The Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently digitized the early exhibition catalogs of Knoedler & Company, a renowned art gallery in New York. The catalogs’ contents are full-text searchable via CONTENTdm.

over the river

2011-11-14T00:16:00.001-05:00

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Over the River, scheduled for August 2014, has been granted permission by the Bureau of Land Management.

smack mellon

2011-11-12T00:39:00.000-05:00

The deadline for the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program is November 17.

joan mitchell

2011-11-11T11:11:00.002-05:00

Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings can be seen at Cheim & Read through January 4.

brooklyn college

2011-11-10T01:37:00.000-05:00

Brooklyn College will host their fall Open Studios the weekend of November 18.

shani peters

2011-11-09T01:35:00.000-05:00

Shani Peters is participating in GET IT ON THE RECORD, a show "curated by Yulia Tikhonova and organized around poet Amiri Baraka's repeated artistic command."

nancy woods

2011-11-08T00:30:00.000-05:00

Concrete Utopia presents Under Pressure: A Night of Action Printmaking with Nancy Woods on Saturday, November 19, at 7:00PM.

ccny open studios

2011-11-07T11:27:00.004-05:00

The City College of New York will host their fall Open Studios on November 10 from 6:00-9:00PM.

simpson kalisher

2011-11-05T00:28:00.000-05:00

Photographs from Simpson Kalisher's latest book will be on view at Keith de Lellis through November 5.

picasso to koons

2011-11-04T02:24:00.000-05:00

Picasso to Koons, at the Museum of Art and Design, looks at the "works of sculptural beauty created by artists in the form of jewelry."

the (s) files

2011-11-03T01:19:00.000-05:00

The (S) Files , El Museo's Biennial, "takes on a broad exploration of the visual energy, events, and aesthetics of the street."

robbie riley

2011-11-02T01:02:00.000-05:00

I recently saw Robbie Riley's show in Seattle.

john copeland

2011-11-01T01:56:00.001-05:00

I was recently introduced to the work of John Copeland, who has a show right now in Portland.

2011-10-31T16:54:00.000-05:00

rosy keyser

2011-10-29T00:55:00.000-05:00

Rosy Keyser's show at Peter Blum Chelsea "brings together a group of large-scale canvases and small works that relate themes of transmutation and rebirth to the concept that energy can neither be created nor destroyed."

bruce davidson

2011-10-28T00:47:00.000-05:00

Bruce Davidson: Subway, first realized in 1986, is being shown at Aperture to coincide with the re-relase of this highly influential book.

gary panter

2011-10-27T00:39:00.000-05:00

Gary Panter, known for his “punk nuclear hillbilly” aesthetic, has a show at Fredericks & Freiser through November 5.

raw

2011-10-26T03:04:00.000-05:00

RAW, a group show at PA&G, closes October 27th.

brian dewan

2011-10-25T01:01:00.000-05:00

Brian Dewan's show at Pierogi, The Tide Waits for No Man, "features a new I-CAN-SEE Film Strip of the same name, to go with his previous pieces Before the White Man Came, Deuteronomy, Grimm’s Tales, Neighbors in the Solar System, The Course of Your Research, The King of Instruments, and The Habit of Innovation, among others."

patti smith

2011-10-24T01:06:00.000-05:00

Patti Smith's show at Robert Miller focuses on photographs taken during her travels.

alexander calder

2011-10-22T00:03:00.000-05:00

Pace focuses on Alexander Calder in 1941, "a seminal moment in Calder’s career and the apotheosis of a decade of experimentation following his invention of the mobile in 1931."

sterling ruby

2011-10-21T11:10:00.000-05:00

Sterling Ruby's work at Andrea Rosen is quite interesting. See it before it comes down October 22.