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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Get ready for art OVERLOAD. This week, the sleeping monster that is the art industry wakes up and comes roaring back to life all over the city: uptown, downtown, in the museums and in just about every...
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A key member of New York’s Abstract Expressionist school gets a retrospective at MoMA, textiles get trippy at the Japan Society, caricature and satire get a thorough going-over at the Met and early...
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A piano-studded tree grows in Brooklyn, rare African sculptures at the Met, revolutionary drawings at the Morgan, the conceptualists of Fluxus in two cities, and on the Lower East Side, art melds with...
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Bulbous babes in Chelsea, masterful Indian paintings covering a span of 800 years, photos of New York City cops on the beat and eight contemporary Latin American artists. Not to mention a fair that's...
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David Smith cubes and art works that explore the boundary between the real and the imagined at the Whitney, psychedelic paintings that incorporate the human figure at Dodge Gallery, Edward Sorel's...
View Article'Work of Art': Jerry Saltz on the TV Show the Art World Loves to Hate
When the Bravo television series "Work of Art" debuted last year, the art world ridiculed it, complained about it and dismissed it as "piddle." They also obsessively chronicled -- in blogs and on...
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There is so much going on this week, I don't even know where to begin. There's crafty modernism at MAD, artsy urban planning proposals at The Noguchi Museum in Queens and the scratchy-pop paintings of...
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The otherworldly mobiles of Alexander Calder on 57th St., rare Islamic manuscripts at the Morgan, the art collection of photographer Alfred Stieglitz at the Met, Canadian cartoonists get their due on...
View ArticleArtist in Wonderland: Carsten Höller at the New Museum
Giant mushrooms in the lobby. Pills that pop from the ceiling. And a sensory deprivation pool where museum-goers can float weightlessly in a body-temperature solution of salty water. Oh, and did I...
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Youth and beauty in Brooklyn, architectural Modernism in the Bronx, Matisse and his models on the Upper East Side and assorted musicians and quirky conceptualists downtown. Things are cooking in New...
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Photos chronicling the grinding poverty of the Depression, daily life during World War II and the rise of 1950s consumerism. The hyperreal sculptures of an Italian conceptualist-prankster....
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A tribute to Romare Bearden, "portable" murals by Diego Rivera, an artist who reproduces the work of other artists, and the roots of documentary photography in New York. Plus: enough performance art to...
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An important exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum examines gay identity, street photography gets its due at Laurence Miller, a contemporary artist showcases geometric wood abstractions and a renowned fine...
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4 Reasons to go See 'HIDE/SEEK' at the Brooklyn Museum
It's the exhibit that made headlines: HIDE/SEEK, the groundbreaking examination of sexuality and gay identity in American portraiture.The exhibition, which opened in Washington, D.C.'s National...
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A camper gets chopped up at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Soviet propaganda goes on view at Andrew Edlin, the appropriation-remixes of Robert Heinecken are up at Friedrich Petzel and a 20-foot blue spruce...
View ArticleArt Explosion: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim
If a naughty Catholic schoolboy had an unlimited budget to put on an exhibit at the Guggenheim, Maurizio Cattelan's All is likely what you'd end up with.A retrospective for the notorious Italian...
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The Basel Frazzle is going down in Miami this week, which means that a lot of folks in the art industry have decamped to the swamps of Southern Florida for the world's most extravagant flea market. But...
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The intersection of Tibet and comic books at the Rubin, a Brazilian street artist at Jonathan LeVine, a (sort of) final showing at a Bushwick space and optical illusions in an empty West Village...
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The forgotten photos of a Chicago nanny, a street artist that turns paint buckets into self-playing drums and the multimedia work of one of Croatia's early feminists. Plus: a talk at the New Museum...
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Renaissance portraiture at the Met, geometric explosions (or are they implosions?) at the Asia Society, and a painter who bucked a trend at the National Academy. The holidays may be upon us, but...
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2011 Year in Review: Gallerina’s Second Annual Year-End Round-Up of Year-End...
It’s that time again! Stuffed into the informational crevices between the clusterbomb of year-end holidays, everyone with a working keyboard has published a piece that wraps up the cultural year that...
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The New Year is getting started with a bang -- with shows about corporations, 1970s America, gender identity and the super galactic sculptures of a 20th century stalwart. Note that from here on out the...
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A daring lensman from the 1930s, trippy light and space from the '60s, sculptural optical illusions and a round-up of painters who are very contemporary (in both Chelsea and Bushwick). New York has got...
View ArticleSneak Peek: Met Museum Debuts Revamped American Galleries
For the past decade, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been giving the American Wing a thorough renovation. On Monday, the museum will be drawing back the curtain on the final phase of the project: 26...
View ArticleAmerican Folk Art Museum Starts 2012 with New Show -- and a Commitment to...
After months of keeping a low profile because of financial troubles, the American Museum of Folk Art on Tuesday unveiled a new exhibit of works from its permanent collection, and trustee and board...
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Reclaimed wood sculpture in the form of a burned bridge, sunflower seeds made of porcelain, an international film festival and a 48-hour reading of a novel by Gertrude Stein. It may be chilly, but that...
View ArticleThrough the Doors of Perception: Doug Wheeler's Mind-Bending Installation at...
Since the 1960s, the artists of California's "light and space" movement have been using light and paint and other subtle materials to create room-sized environments that toy with a viewer's sense of...
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A California portraitist gets his due at MoMA PS1, a Red Hook painter installs site-specific works at the Brooklyn Museum and a photographic chronicler of mayhem gets a thoughtful examination at the...
View ArticleSpace Cruising: The American Museum of Natural History Unveils a...
File this under things that will make you say, Duuuuude. The American Museum of Natural History will transform the 70 foot-wide domed ceiling of the Hayden Planetarium into a multi-player video game...
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A photography series devoted to hermits, the reflective paintings of a Berkeley-born painter, a long-time Long Island sculptor shows off his fascination with unusual materials and a twin brother duo...
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Work from ashes and dust at MAD, an early video pioneer in the Bronx, artists inspired by museums at the Met, and a fashionista chronicles his home and his friends in a solo exhibit in Chelsea. Plus:...
View ArticleHidden City: Unearthing Kevin Sudeith's Urban Petroglyphs
The images reveal themselves slowly: a hot air balloon covered in moss, an NYPD helicopter darting across a granite sky, the delicate outline of what appears to be the Space Shuttle. Overhead,...
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Rethinking architecture during a time of recession, the myriad ways in which artists create prints, drawings that chart unusual histories, a feminist examination of war and abstract paintings that...
View ArticleUngovernables: The New Museum Triennial
In 1971, the artist John Baldessari made a video in which he assumed all kinds of Vogue-ing-like poses and repeated the phrase, "I am making art" over and over and over. The video was part gag, part...
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Crushed cars at the Guggenheim, costumed self-portraits at MoMA, site-specific installations in the Brooklyn Museum's period rooms and a gallery show that is all about nudes. It's a hopping week in New...
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Art about animals, the collection of important Parisian patrons, the architectonic works of a Cuban artist, art about performance art and early '80s photographs from Northern Africa and beyond. There's...
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The rarely-seen junk sculptures of a New York performance artist and MC, an installation that explores our city from the water, important post-war artists from Italy and a pop-up show that features...
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Early works by a pop-graffitist in Brooklyn, paintings of devils in Chelsea, art from the Byzantine era at the Met, the stark look of Deco in Japan, the stirring self-portraits of Francesca Woodman at...
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Crazy paintings of cats, a photographer channels the '70s, the art of the Vegas casino, turning political dialogue into romantic drama and three decades of an important New York art space. There's...
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The art of the nude at the Met, early digital works at the Museum of the Moving Image, paintings from a secret chapel go on view at St. Peter's in Manhattan, and painters and performance artists all...
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A Bronx building is reborn as an art gallery (albeit temporarily), the fine drawings of Dürer and his Northern Renaissance contemporaries goes on view at the Met, a Brooklyn gallery creates a free...
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The earliest Egyptian art at the Met, a house grows in the Brooklyn Museum, an igloo made of coal on the Lower East Side and a Brazilian artist's climb-able piece in Chelsea. Plus: an art video tribute...
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A figure whose photography and performances chronicle a life of survival and loss in Chelsea, a super giant salad on the High Line, the act of grooming gets thoroughly picked apart in Bushwick and...
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The U.S. as seen by Chinese and Chinese-American photographers, the late work of pop forebear Larry Rivers, an East Village gallery space from the '80s gets its own show at Winkleman and Spanish-born...
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The portraiture of Alice Neel in Chelsea, the weird-grotesque films of a Swedish artist at the New Museum and the filmy interiors of a post-Impressionist at the Jewish Museum. Plus: photographic...
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Two Italian designers face off at the Met, a group of artists take on the art market and a moody photographer shows his latest in Chelsea. Plus, forget about Bushwick ... this weekend, it's all about...
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It seems like space is in the air this week: there is a Cloud City at the Met and a mission to Mars at the Armory. Not that there aren't other things to do. The International Center of Photography...
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Exhibits that are all about the artistic contributions of women, a 150th birthday party (with gilded cake) for Gustav Klimt, web-like installations by an Osaka-born artist and an exhibit that focuses...
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Art about sex, art about sci-fi landscapes, art about dilapidated industry and art in which the everyday is turned into abstraction. There is lots of trippy-weird stuff going on in New York City this...
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Post-war abstraction gets international at the Guggenheim, Ellsworth Kelly's tender plant drawings hit the Met, Sikkema Jenkins organizes a group show that is all about small and the Museum of Arts and...
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