Artlog

Daniel Richter, A Major Survey
Denver Art Museum | 2008-12-02
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

German contemporary artist Daniel Richter’s first solo museum exhibition in the US. Richter explores themes from pop culture, politics, music, movies, and history in colorful paintings that seem to leap out of the artist’s imagination and onto the canvas.

Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | 2008-11-22
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

Pipilotti Rist’s lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality. MoMA commissioned the Swiss artist to create a monumental site-specific installation that immerses the Museum’s Marron Atrium in twenty-five-foot-high moving images.

Looking at Music: Media Art of the 1960s
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | 2008-11-19
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

In the 1960s, the decade that saw astronauts land on the moon, artists were likewise seeking to expand boundaries of time and space and to have new experiences. At the same time, portable video equipment reached the consumer market, suddenly simultaneity and “now,” the present and the past, became content. Musicians led the way in developing new working methods, and music was at the forefront of interdisciplinary experimentation during the early days of media art. This exhibition looks at the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others.

Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949
The Jewish Museum | 2008-11-16
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

This is the first exhibition devoted to the extraordinary artwork created for Russian Jewish theater productions in the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition brings to light a remarkable period in the early years of the Soviet Union when innovative visual artists, including Marc Chagall, Natan Altman, and Robert Falk joined forces with avant-garde playwrights, actors, and theatrical producers to create a theater experience with extraordinary mass appeal. Through paintings, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, film clips and theater ephemera – many of which have never been exhibited before- the exhibition captures an exhilarating but fleeting moment in the cultural history of the Soviet Union.

Richard Avedon: Performance
PaceWildenstein (22nd Street) | 2008-11-13 | 6pm
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

Through the lens of his camera, legendary fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004) captured a social history of the artists who defined the 20th century. Featuring 60 photographs of performers, dancers, artists, choreographers, and musicians

Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev, A New Silk Road
Winkleman Gallery | 2008-11-13 | 6-8pm
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

“A New Silk Road” is a solo exhibition by Kyrgyz artists Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev. Featuring photography and a stunning five-channel video, commissioned in 2007 by the Art Institute of Chicago, together this gorgeous body of work forms an essay on the local impact of global economics.

Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York
Pier 92 | 2008-11-09
Art Fair | New York at a Glance

One of the most important exhibitions of contemporary Asian art, the fair features more than 60 international galleries with work from China, Japan, Korea, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam.

Ad Reinhardt: In the Minds of Me
Woodward Gallery | 2008-11-08 | 6pm
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

In the Minds of Me” – The never-before-seen collection of unique drawings and thoughts on paper revealing rare insight into Reinhardt’s personal nature.

THE SEDUCTION OF LIGHT: AMMI PHILLIPS | MARK ROTHKO COMPOSITIONS IN PINK, GREEN, AND RED
American Folk Art Museum | 2008-11-07
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

Ammi Phillips (1788 – 1865) and Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), two American masters disparate in time, place, and presentation, pursued the soul-thirsting creation of inner light through the “realm of the canvas,” as Rothko once termed it.

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1958-2008
Whitney Museum of American Art | 2008-11-07
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

One of the most influential photographers of the last half-century, William Eggleston has defined the history of color photography. This exhibition will be the artist’s first retrospective in the United States and will include both his color and black-and-white photographs as well as Stranded in Canton, the artist’s video work from the early 1970s

John Beech & Edward Albee, Obscure/Reveal
Peter Blum (Soho) | 2008-11-06 | 6pm
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

John Beech and Edward Albee have known each other since 1991, when Albee acquired the first of several of Beech’s works for his collection. In the summer of 2006, upon the suggestion by the publisher that they collaborate on a book project, John Beech set out for Montauk to meet with Edward Albee. He brought with him a group of over-painted photographs, which he had been working on. Together they selected 40 works from the original group of 130 and decided on their order

Andreas Gursky, Cocoon II
Matthew Marks Gallery | 2008-11-05 | 6-8pm
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

Gursky has long been interested in electronic music and for more than a decade his photographs of raves and concerts have made up an important part of his work. For his newest pictures, Gursky has photographed The Cocoon Club in Frankfurt, a famous German nightclub designed by his friend, the DJ Sven Väth.

Zoe Leonard - Hispanic Society Project
Dia at the Hispanic Society of America | 2008-11-05
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

For the second of Dia’s projects at the Hispanic Society, New York-based artist Zoe Leonard will present her monumental work, Analogue (1998-2007), a series of nearly 400 photographs, along with a selection of rare maps and navigational charts dating back to the fifteenth century from the Hispanic Society’s extensive collection.

Election Night Party at Exit Art
Exit Art | 2008-11-04 | 7pm
Parties | New York at a Glance

Exit Art is hosting a raging $10 election night party in its huge space with drinks, music, art and live projected news feeds! While there check out Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now thru 12/6. It features hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera that bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice.

ANDY WARHOL - Still-Life Polaroids
Paul Kasmin (27th) | 2008-11-04
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

Andy Warhol’s Still-Life Polaroids is comprised of unique photographs of objects and arrangements taken by Andy Warhol between 1977 and 1983.

Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | 2008-11-03
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

This first major museum exhibition to focus on Miro the “anti-painter” identifies the core practices and strategies he used to attack “painting” between 1927 and 1937, a crucial decade within his long career. Taking Miro’s notorious declaration of 1927 “I want to assassinate painting” as its starting point, the exhibition begins with the remarkable series of works on unprimed canvas singled out by Louis Aragon as collage avant la lettre, and concludes with Miro’s return to realism in Still Life with Old Shoe.

Picasso's Marie-Thérèse
Acquavella Galleries | 2008-11-01
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

The exhibition features Picasso’s colorful portraits, painted in 1932 of a young, voluptuous, blond girl named Marie-Thérèse Walter who first captivated him five years earlier. Many of these works, such as The Dream, are in private collections and are rarely, if ever, placed on public display.

Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967
The Ukrainian Museum | 2008-10-31
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

Internationally renowned as the “father of Futurism” in his native Ukraine and in Russia, David Burliuk was a major contributor to the seminal period of modernism in the early decades of the 20th century.

THE SEDUCTION OF LIGHT: AMMI PHILLIPS | MARK ROTHKO COMPOSITIONS IN PINK, GREEN, AND RED
American Folk Art Museum | 2008-10-29
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

Ammi Phillips (1788 – 1865) and Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), two American masters disparate in time, place, and presentation, pursued the soul-thirsting creation of inner light through the “realm of the canvas,” as Rothko once termed it.

Photographic Tribute to the Life of Robert Rauschenberg
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 2008-10-26
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance

The Guggenheim presents photos, encounters, remembrances and anecdotes on their “muse wall In honor of the late Robert Rauschenberg’s birthday (10/22/1925). Visitors can contribute to this collaborative exhibition which is up through November 5th.