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...
View Article4 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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