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New York at a Glance
Catherine Opie: American Photographer
@Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Exhibitions | Today
Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of transgender people and performance artists to her expansive urban landscapes of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined. this exhibition provides audiences with a valuable opportunity to examine firsthand the interconnections between Opie’s various styles and subjects.
Credit crunch crushes art auction in Hong Kong
by dylan / about 4 hours ago / Source: news.bbc.co.uk
“Asia’s contemporary art market suffered a blow at the weekend as bidders failed to buy several paintings at a major Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong. Nineteen of the 47 prominent works under the hammer were left unsold, while others barely hit low estimates. It is thought potential buyers are feeling the effects of the current global financial crisis.”
How Poster Boy Turns Subway Ads Into Political Art
found by dylan / about 4 hours ago / Source: nymag.com
“The defacing of posters doesn’t sound particularly lofty, but Poster Boy—who, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain anonymous (vandalism is, after all, a crime)—has intentions that are surprisingly high-minded.”
New York at a Glance
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
@Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Exhibitions | Sunday
Closing 10/20. Home Delivery and its accompanying Web site (www.momahomedelivery.org) display the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result. Within the gallery, eighty-four architectural projects spanning 180 years are presented by means of film, architectural models, original drawings and blueprints, fragments, photographs, patents, games, sales materials and propaganda, toys, and partial reconstructions.
Come You Masters of War, You That Build the Big Bombs Lauren Bergman
posted by triagallery / Meta-data
Bergman explains that her paintings explore the “dislocation between our comfortable, complacent lives and the horrific reality of war to which we have become numb.” She chose an historic context removed from our contemporary cultural climate to “underscore the lack of progress or lessons learned from one war to the next…”
Emerging - New York
Aurel Schmidt: Maneater
@Deitch
Openings | Saturday
6-8pm
In this new body of work, Ms. Schmidt munches her way through Modernist masterpieces, transforming them with graphite and colored pencil into seething masses of interwoven debris.
The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. The exhibition comprises more than eighty pictures created since 1970, among them more than a dozen that are only in the Brooklyn presentation. The exhibition traces their stylistic and emotional evolution through their pictures and art in other media, ranging from charcoal on paper sculpture from the early 1970s to postcard pieces to ephemera dating back to the 1960s.
Still #99229
posted by pierogi / Meta-data
Les Stone, “Food Drop,” 1991 Digital C-print, Edition of 5, 40×50 inches
Emerging - New York
Radio Silence: Selected Photography
@Riviera
Openings | Friday
8-10pm
Drop by the Riviera in Williamsburg this evening for the opening of Radio Silence – a selected visual history of American Hardcore Music featuring selected photographs from JJ Gonson, Glenn Maryansky, Rusty Moore, Philin Phlash, Gail Rush Davo Schiech, Dave Sine, & Jeff Winterberg.



























I just went to see the show today. I highly recommend it. The works make you dizzy, they are relentless and sincere.