Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tris Vonna-Michell, X Initiative
Tris Vonna-Michell occupies the entire fourth floor of X Initiative, combining new and existing works in a site-specific installation featuring 35-mm slide projectors and analog stereo equipment. The vast exhibition space is divided into three rooms in which several projectors show selections of snapshots while tables, chairs, a tape deck and headphones form three listening stations. Two sheets of white copy paper are stuck to opposite walls: transcripts of the prelude and conclusion of a performance. This minimalist installation is intriguing but disjointed.
At each listening post, Vonna-Michell tells an autobiographical anecdote: the inner monologue of a frenzied traveler who goes from Berlin to Japan and back again, chasing ephemeral moments with “a bulbous camera in a bulbous bag” but never quite managing to capture every fleeting experience. A clever wordsmith with a breakneck delivery but impeccable diction, Vonna-Michell transmutes fragments of his personal history into a gleaming alloy of immediacy, nostalgia and wanderlust.
Those exhausting but poetic spoken word pieces are the strongest works in this show. By contrast, the installation’s other elements seem to have been included as an afterthought. Though eye-catching and vaguely related to the recordings - the slide shows illustrate the narrations; the hum of the projectors offsets the loud voice coming through the headphones; the printed words act like parentheses around the recorded ones - they prevent visitors from fully immersing themselves in the travelogues. Vonna-Mitchell is a promising new voice but this exhibition would have had a stronger impact if it had been conceived as a sound installation.
MoMA- “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976” REVIEW
“In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art”, is a group exhibition at the MoMA, which unites 11 of the most influential Conceptual artists of the 1960’s and 70’s.
The exhibition encompasses of a variety of media including installation, collage, video, photography, slide projections, and sculpture; and appears to be centered on the connection between these Conceptual pioneers and the city of Amsterdam- whether it was the artist’s birthplace or just a temporary residence. However, its repetition of maps, custom postcards, letters, and text quickly reveals “Amsterdam” as a larger representation for the reoccurring theme of travel and the importance of place.
Sol Lewitt, Stanley Brouwn and Jan Dibbets use maps as a vehicle to evoke this theme. In Lewitt’s Map of Amsterdam without Vondelpark… he presents a map of Amsterdam with its most vital parts cut out, causing the viewer to stress on the absent areas. Simultaneously, Allen Ruppersberg as well as Gilbert and George utilize correspondence to imply travel. In his piece Overnight, Ruppersberg displays 45 self-addressed airmail envelopes sent to different Hilton Hotel locations throughout the world.
Thus “In & Out of Amsterdam” creates a cohesive paradigm of the Conceptual art movement’s obsession with travel. Because Conceptual art broke free from the constraints of a museum or gallery space it has, since its inception, been in constant travel, searching for its own place. Emanating from a range of sources and approaches, this exhibition successfully captures this sentiment.
The exhibition encompasses of a variety of media including installation, collage, video, photography, slide projections, and sculpture; and appears to be centered on the connection between these Conceptual pioneers and the city of Amsterdam- whether it was the artist’s birthplace or just a temporary residence. However, its repetition of maps, custom postcards, letters, and text quickly reveals “Amsterdam” as a larger representation for the reoccurring theme of travel and the importance of place.
Sol Lewitt, Stanley Brouwn and Jan Dibbets use maps as a vehicle to evoke this theme. In Lewitt’s Map of Amsterdam without Vondelpark… he presents a map of Amsterdam with its most vital parts cut out, causing the viewer to stress on the absent areas. Simultaneously, Allen Ruppersberg as well as Gilbert and George utilize correspondence to imply travel. In his piece Overnight, Ruppersberg displays 45 self-addressed airmail envelopes sent to different Hilton Hotel locations throughout the world.
Thus “In & Out of Amsterdam” creates a cohesive paradigm of the Conceptual art movement’s obsession with travel. Because Conceptual art broke free from the constraints of a museum or gallery space it has, since its inception, been in constant travel, searching for its own place. Emanating from a range of sources and approaches, this exhibition successfully captures this sentiment.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Maya Lin "Three Ways of Looking at the Earth" Review
The warm interior of PaceWildenstein provides a fitting space for Maya Lin’s current exhibition, “Three Ways of Looking at the Earth.” Lin offers the viewer a different perspective of the world by replicating three distinct natural forms and changing their context and material composition. Nature takes on a different form when created with man-made materials and viewed indoors.
2 x 4 Landscape, an undulating hill composed of some 50,000 cut 2X4 pieces of lumber commands the opening space of the gallery. The exhibition’s centerpiece, it embodies the show’s title by emphasizing that viewing nature in an unusual setting and medium gives an opportunity to contemplate man’s role in nature by interacting with it in a different context. For Water Line, Lin suspends aluminum wire from the ceiling to re-create dips and peaks taken from topographical maps of a specific stretch of the ocean floor. The spectator walks under the piece and is thus able to view the ocean floor from below.
Unlike Walter DeMaria’s Earth Room, which places actual soil in a gallery, Lin re-creates nature using man-made materials. Her use of 2x4's instead of tree stumps and wire instead of seaweed (for example) emphasizes the complex duality of these landscapes; although they mimic and reference nature, they still celebrate their unnatural qualities. Lin does not mask their artificiality, yet manages to create organic and fluid pieces. The viewer recognizes the artificial and organic qualities of these landscapes simultaneously and reflects on his role in the natural world.
2 x 4 Landscape, an undulating hill composed of some 50,000 cut 2X4 pieces of lumber commands the opening space of the gallery. The exhibition’s centerpiece, it embodies the show’s title by emphasizing that viewing nature in an unusual setting and medium gives an opportunity to contemplate man’s role in nature by interacting with it in a different context. For Water Line, Lin suspends aluminum wire from the ceiling to re-create dips and peaks taken from topographical maps of a specific stretch of the ocean floor. The spectator walks under the piece and is thus able to view the ocean floor from below.
Unlike Walter DeMaria’s Earth Room, which places actual soil in a gallery, Lin re-creates nature using man-made materials. Her use of 2x4's instead of tree stumps and wire instead of seaweed (for example) emphasizes the complex duality of these landscapes; although they mimic and reference nature, they still celebrate their unnatural qualities. Lin does not mask their artificiality, yet manages to create organic and fluid pieces. The viewer recognizes the artificial and organic qualities of these landscapes simultaneously and reflects on his role in the natural world.
Anthony Goicolea: Once Removed Review
“Once Removed”, the current exhibition at Postmasters Gallery, features the latest mixed media work by the artist Anthony Goicolea. Visiting his family’s native land of Cuba (first time) and searching for family remnants, Goicolea generates paintings, photographs, sculpture, and video installation in an attempt to reconcile with his lost sense of family tradition. The exhibition succeeds on displaying his nostalgia because Goicolea ties all these mediums together with multiple visual metaphors.
When you first arrive you immediately notice the tropical flora filling the middle of the gallery floor. The paintings in the main gallery depict two events, one being a large family photo session with idealized characters and Hollywood props. The other paintings showing stacked Concrete Masonry Units (CMU) with a glass jar on top containing a family bust. Contrasting these works are multiple photographs of empty tropical landscapes and destroyed architecture. The rear gallery contains a model of a constructed home, which houses a projector. The film shows Goicolea sitting in a row boat and dropping CMU blocks into the water, which is a familiar image from one of the photographs in the main gallery.
The photographs are a great historical archive of reality, and the paintings display the idealization of family memories. By repeating the CMU blocks, row boats, and architectural remnants throughout the works Anthony Goicolea was able to illustrate the complex duality of family tradition. The burden of responsibility and the extravagant commemoration we feel for our family history is constantly at odds and will always be a part of the human experience.
Once Removed
Once Removed
September 12 - October 17 2009
Anthony Goicolea has in this exhibition left his fabricated and sexualized images behind, but keeps many of the same photographic tricks up his sleeve. He uses these stagings now with a subtler hand to create beautiful photos of Cuba. At first look they are simply striking images, but at a second glance their unreality reveals itself. Take for example “Jettisoned”, which at first looks like Anthony Goicolea has been incredibly lucky to snap a picture of such a beautiful scene, but the photo slowly reveals it’s artificiality, the cinderblocks that float, and if you look closely the hands that hold them up. The cinderblock becomes a theme for Once Removed, popping up over and over, representing the home that his family left behind just after the revolution. His family’s past and a sense of nostalgia for that past permeate the work. The exhibit being the result of his travels to Cuba, a life that he never experienced.
Once Removed mixes photography, painting, video, and installation. Anthony Goicolea blurs the boundries between the mediums, and has the same theme running through all of them. Many of the painted portraits have a photonegative quality, while the photographs insist on their being created rather than captured. The painting “Self-Contained Pedestal” has tromp l’oeil characteristics and Escher-like qualities. The video installation really gets to the heart of what he is expressing in this exhibit, on a boat he throws cinderblocks overboard before drifting away. The sense of things left behind for better or worse is unmistakable.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
FALL (and some SPRING) 2009 EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
MOMA:
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Through October 5, 2009
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
WHITNEY:
Dan Graham: Beyond
through October 11
Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
Opens November 6, 2009
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
September 17–January 17, 2010
GUGGENHEIM:
Kandinsky
September 18, 2009–January 13, 2010
Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn
October 2, 2009–January 6, 2010
Rob Pruitt Presents: The First Annual Art Awards
October 29, 2009
Tino Seghal
January 29 - March 10
NEW MUSEUM:
Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt
July 15, 2009 - October 11, 2009
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
July 22, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Dorothy Iannone: Lioness
July 22, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Urs Fischer
October 28, 2009 - January 24, 2010
BROOKLYN MUSEUM:
Yinka Shonibare MBE
June 26–September 20, 2009
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
May 1, 2009–January 10, 2010
MET:
Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans
September 22, 2009–January 3, 2010
PS 1:
Kenneth Anger
February 22, 2009 - September 14, 2009
Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or
February 22, 2009 - September 14, 2009
Between Spaces
October 25, 2009 - April 5, 2010
For the second time in P.S.1 history, the junior curatorial staff will produce and organize a large-scale group exhibition. Between Spaces will include film, installation, photography, and sculpture that address themes of nostalgia, a preoccupation with materiality, and the creation of illusionistic and psychological shifts in space. Playing the role of alchemist, each artist in Between Spaces will recast familiar materials and objects such as wood, mirrors, moving blankets, ceramics, smoke, and metal grating to make the ordinary strange.
1969
October 25, 2009 - April 5, 2010
This will be the first exhibition at P.S.1 of works drawn from virtually all of the collecting areas of The Museum of Modern Art and will fill P.S.1's second-floor galleries with examples of painting, sculpture, photography, print, illustrated books, design, drawing, media, and film, nearly all produced during the year 1969. These works will explore the artistic aesthetic incited by a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult. Within the collection show will be a series of interventions by a current generation of artists whose work will refract the concerns of 1969 and the MoMA collection forty years after the original date and on the 80th anniversary of the museum.
100 Years (version #1, ps1, nov 2009)
November 1, 2009 - April 5, 2010
This exhibition will gather important happenings, actions, moments, and gestures to outline a history of performance art that is still largely unknown. Organized by P.S.1 and Performa, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to presenting and researching performance art, 100 Years will then travel to other venues, with content varying and developing over time. For each version, works can be added to or detracted from, or include a greater local emphasis, depending on where the exhibition takes place.
QUEENS MUSEUM:
Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center
Through September 27, 2009
DIA BEACON:
Antoni Tàpies
May 16 through October 19, 2009
Zoe Leonard, You see I am here after all
through September 7, 2009
DIA @ HISPANIC SOCIETY:
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
chronotopes & dioramas
September 23, 2009- April 18, 2010
STUDIO MUSEUM:
Hurvin Anderson: Peter’s Series 2007–2009
July 16-October 25, 2009
Artists in Residence 2008-9
Khalif Kelly, Adam Pendleton and Dawit L. Petros
July 16–October 29, 2009
30 Seconds off an Inch
November 12, 2009–March 13, 2010
This survey will bring together contemporary artworks by a group of artists who, having absorbed the lessons of U.S.-based Conceptual art and identity politics, imbue their respective practices with a critical sense of play and irreverence adopted from Fluxus, Arte Povera, Gutai and Neoconcretism, among other international movements. Presenting approximately one hundred works by dozens of artists, the exhibition will provide an overview of a generation of artists who use a variety of media, including photography, video, large-scale sculpture, figurative painting and site-specific installations. 30 Seconds aims to show how this group of artists engages with the body and race in clever, subtle and astute ways.
JEWISH MUSEUM:
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010
ICP:
Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010
NEUE GALERIE:
Oskar Kokoschka
July 16-October 5, 2009
From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection
October 15, 2009-February 22, 2010
Otto Dix
March 18-June 28, 2010
BRONX MUSEUM
Intersections Commissions
August 2, 2009– January 3, 2010
Open House: Sunday October 4, 12pm – 5pm
The second of a three-part exhibition, Intersections: The Grand Concourse Commissions presents specially commissioned projects by three contemporary artists considering present-day conditions along the Grand Concourse: Katie Holten (Ireland), Kabir Carter, and Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (Taiwan).
In addition, a special Lobby installation by Acconci Studio will significantly alter the Museum architecture.
Katie Holten, Tree Museum
through October 25, 2009
MUSEO DEL BARRIO
Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis (1900-1945)
Opens Saturday, October 17, 2009- February 28, 2010
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement
March 21 – June 6, 2010
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
October 21, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés
through Nov. 29
ICA PHILADELPHIA
Dance with Camera
September 11, 2009 - March 21, 2010
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
September 11, 2009 - December 6, 2009
Video Art: Replay
Part I: Asking Not Telling
September 11, 2009 - December 6, 2009
SCULPTURE CENTER:
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
Mike Kelley and Michael Smith
September 13 - November 30, 2009
Grand Openings
September 13 - November 30, 2009
Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether, Jay Sanders, Emily Sunblad, and Stefan Tcherepnin
THE DRAWING CENTER:
Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World
September 18–December 18, 2009
X INITIATIVE:
Fritz Haeg, Dome Colony X in the San Gabriels
through October 24, 2009
Solo shows of Tris Vonna-Michell, Luke Fowler, and Keren Cytter
WHITE COLUMNS:
September 10 – October 24, 2009
Gallery Registered - Elena Bajo, Margarida Correia, Gregg Evans, Claudia Weber
White Room Gavin Watson
White Room Rick Myers
The Bulletin Board Brian Kennon
Other People's Projects 2nd Cannons Publications, Opening reception Thursday September 10, 6 - 8PM
THE KITCHEN:
One Minute More: Kate Gilmore, Jamie Isenstein, Oliver Lutz, Clifford Owens, Georgia Sagri, Aki Sasamoto, and Josh Tonsfeldt
September 10 – October 31, 2009
The New York-based artists in this group exhibition create performance-based videos, photographs, and sculptural installations that experiment with various approaches to presenting and documenting durational actions or live events. Some of the artists structure their work around carefully choreographed, task-based activities relating to self-imposed constraints, while others develop more intricate, narrative scenarios responding to a given environment. In both cases, the artists alternatively explore a range of issues relating to labor and stamina, risk and vulnerability, as well as questions of identity that together form of a larger investigation into the physical and mental conditions of contemporary life.
ART IN GENERAL:
Rancourt/Yatsuk, Phase IV
Guy Benfield, Night Store
Shana Moulton
Oct 29- Jan 9, 2010
PERFORMA 09:
Performa 09, the third visual art performance biennial happening November 1-22, 2009 [and 100th anniversary of Futurist Manifesto]
SOME COMMERCIAL GALLERIES [further information about exhibitions in commercial galleries in New York can be obtained at The Douglas Kelley Show List (http://dks.thing.net/) and http://oneartworld.com/]:
Lili Dujourie & Ion Grigorescu at Ludlow 38 (August 28–October 11)
Tauba Auerbach: Here and Now/and Nowhere at Deitch Projects (September 3–Oct. 17). A super-promising artist who uses sign-painting techniques, math, mysticism, and philosophy to “explore the impossible … to violate itself, or crumple it, or double it back on itself.” It’s retinally exciting, logical, and cerebral all at once.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Genesis P-Orridge at Invisible Exports (September 9)
Tom Burr at Bortolami (September 10)
Trine Bumiller at Kathryn Markel (September 10)
Chris Ofili - Afro Margin, and Raoul De Keyser at Zwirner, 19th Street (Sept. 10 – Oct 24)
Mark Bradford, Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins, 22nd St (Sept 10)
Stephen Dean at Sara Meltzer (Sept 10)
Lisa Oppenheim at Harris Lieberman, 89 Vandam at Hudson, (Sept 12- Oct 10)
Carol Bove David Lamelas Corey McCorkle Oscar Tuazon Eli Hansen at Maccarone (September 12- October 24)
Gavin Brown, Europäisch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (three young European artists:
Ida Ekblad, Alistair Frost, and David Hominal) (Sept 12 – Oct 17)
Janine Antoni: Up Against at Luhring Augustine (Sept. 12– Oct. 24). This MacArthur winner returns with a video of herself hanging by ropes, spiderlike, in her daughter’s room—and with a copper device in the form of a gargoyle that allows a woman to urinate standing up. As Antoni puts it, “The body becomes a funnel through which the world has been poured.” I’ll say.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
K8 Hardy at Reena Spaulings (September 13)
Anselm Reyle at Gagosian, 24th Street (September 17)
Paulina Olowska, Stephen G. Rhodes and Catherine Sullivan at Gladstone (September 17- Oct 17)
Damian Ortega at Gladstone's 21st Street project space (September 17)
Sarah Anne Johnson: House on Fire, Julie Saul Gallery [22nd Street] (September 17–November 14). For her third solo show, Johnson combines photography, sculpture, and painting to tell the story of her grandmother’s medical mistreatment. Dark scenarios, enacted by small figures, unfold in an elaborate dollhouse. Uncanny, touching, and formally inventive.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Group shows Swiss Institute opening (Friday Sept 18)
Scott Lyall at Miguel Abreu (Sept 18
Clive Murphy / Ghost Machine at Magnan Projects, 317 Tenth Ave (Sept. 18 - Oct. 31)
Justin Matherly at Dispatch, 127 Henry Street (September 20 - November 1)
Jeff Wall at Marion Goodman (September 22)
Allan Kaprow YARD at Hauser and Wirth, 62 E 69th Street (Sept 23)
YARD will include unique public reinventions of Kaprow’s enduringly influential and highly picturesque 1961 Environment Yard by the prominent performance artist and interventionist William Pope.L, as well as atists Sharon Hayes and Josiah McElheny.
Maya Lin's installation at Salon 94 (September 24)
Justine Kurland at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (Oct. 15–Nov. 14). This photographer’s exploration of fictive utopias and the dreams of the itinerant gives us pictures of empty freight trains rolling through mountain landscapes, hobo musicians, and wizened prospectors still looking to strike it rich. A perfect photographic chaser to the Met’s Robert Frank show.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Barbara Ess at Thierry Goldberg (October 16)
Paul Chan: Sade for Sade’s Sake at Greene Naftali (Oct. 22– Dec. 5). Chan’s five-hour-plus looped video of shadowy figures engaging in religious rituals and mayhem, experiencing natural disasters, and having sex is a visual ballad, putting all Chan’s interests in one darkly sexual, psychologically challenging basket.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Sarah Morris at Petzel (October 23 - December 5)
Emily Jacir at Alexander and Bonin (October 24 – November 28)
Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps (October 24)
Olaf Breuning at Gladstone (October 29- Dec 5)
Peter Fischli & David Weiss at Matthew Marks (Oct. 30–Jan. 16). I think of this extraordinary Swiss team as “Shamans of the Alps.” For this extravaganza, they’re building an installation out of 800 magazine ads, and showing their gnarly clay-and-rubber figures as well as a new film starring their animal avatars, a rat and a bear.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Sylvia Sleigh at I-20 Gallery (Nov. 5–Dec. 19). The 93-year-old painter will present small-scale portraits (made in the sixties and seventies) of noted critics, curators, and other artists, nude, with big heads of bad hair, and flowery clothes. Sleigh’s paintings and watercolors are diamonds in the rough, waiting to be rediscovered and savored.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read (Nov. 19–Dec. 19). Our perennial and underappreciated wizard of the artistic id will exhibit her wily ways with phallic and labial forms, her penchant for intense color, and her knack for turning any material into something talismanic and weird.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University at Susan Inglitt Gallery (Dec. 4–Jan. 23). This artist collective of aesthetic marauders and walking bullshit detectors has opened its own academy, in a donated Tribeca building, intending to subvert art schools’ market-driven ethos. The semester-end exhibition of work could be the most interesting new thing you’ll see all fall.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
SOME EVENTS:
Dia Talks:
Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Moyra Davey on Louise Bourgeois
Monday, September 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
T.J. Wilcox on Dan Flavin
and the Hudson River School
Monday, November 16, 2009, 6:30 pm
Charline von Heyl on Bruce Nauman
Monday, December 7, 2009, 6:30 pm
Liz Deschenes on Robert Irwin
Monday, December 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
Walid Raad on Bernd and Hilla Becher
Monday, January 11, 2010, 6:30 pm
BRIC Contemporary, Status Report, Wednesday, September 9, 7 pm, artists Coco Fusco, Vicky Funari, and Alex Rivera will discuss moving image portrayals of border issues, immigration, and work. The evening will focus on Coco Fusco's video installation, Dolores from 10 to 10; Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre's film, Maquilapolis, and Alex Rivera's film, Sleep Dealer. Moderated by Elizabeth Ferrer, curator of Status Report and Director of Contemporary Art.
Artists Talk on Art panel on "Post Crisis Aesthetics" at SVA (23rd Street auditorium) moderated by Alexandra Peers (September 18) Richard Flood etc.
New Museum, Michael Smith, Thursday, September 24, 7 PM
Michael Smith's original approach to video, installation, and performance has broken artistic ground. His eponymous alter ego Mike, known for pathologically banal behavior, sends up cultural normalcy and spotlights the ways people consume ideas and lifestyles marketed to them. For this event, New Museum Adjunct Curator and Rhizome Executive Director Lauren Cornell will talk with Smith about his use of comedy, both as a way to engage and quantify audience response and to generate new work.
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Through October 5, 2009
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
WHITNEY:
Dan Graham: Beyond
through October 11
Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
Opens November 6, 2009
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
September 17–January 17, 2010
GUGGENHEIM:
Kandinsky
September 18, 2009–January 13, 2010
Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn
October 2, 2009–January 6, 2010
Rob Pruitt Presents: The First Annual Art Awards
October 29, 2009
Tino Seghal
January 29 - March 10
NEW MUSEUM:
Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt
July 15, 2009 - October 11, 2009
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
July 22, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Dorothy Iannone: Lioness
July 22, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Urs Fischer
October 28, 2009 - January 24, 2010
BROOKLYN MUSEUM:
Yinka Shonibare MBE
June 26–September 20, 2009
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
May 1, 2009–January 10, 2010
MET:
Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans
September 22, 2009–January 3, 2010
PS 1:
Kenneth Anger
February 22, 2009 - September 14, 2009
Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or
February 22, 2009 - September 14, 2009
Between Spaces
October 25, 2009 - April 5, 2010
For the second time in P.S.1 history, the junior curatorial staff will produce and organize a large-scale group exhibition. Between Spaces will include film, installation, photography, and sculpture that address themes of nostalgia, a preoccupation with materiality, and the creation of illusionistic and psychological shifts in space. Playing the role of alchemist, each artist in Between Spaces will recast familiar materials and objects such as wood, mirrors, moving blankets, ceramics, smoke, and metal grating to make the ordinary strange.
1969
October 25, 2009 - April 5, 2010
This will be the first exhibition at P.S.1 of works drawn from virtually all of the collecting areas of The Museum of Modern Art and will fill P.S.1's second-floor galleries with examples of painting, sculpture, photography, print, illustrated books, design, drawing, media, and film, nearly all produced during the year 1969. These works will explore the artistic aesthetic incited by a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult. Within the collection show will be a series of interventions by a current generation of artists whose work will refract the concerns of 1969 and the MoMA collection forty years after the original date and on the 80th anniversary of the museum.
100 Years (version #1, ps1, nov 2009)
November 1, 2009 - April 5, 2010
This exhibition will gather important happenings, actions, moments, and gestures to outline a history of performance art that is still largely unknown. Organized by P.S.1 and Performa, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to presenting and researching performance art, 100 Years will then travel to other venues, with content varying and developing over time. For each version, works can be added to or detracted from, or include a greater local emphasis, depending on where the exhibition takes place.
QUEENS MUSEUM:
Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center
Through September 27, 2009
DIA BEACON:
Antoni Tàpies
May 16 through October 19, 2009
Zoe Leonard, You see I am here after all
through September 7, 2009
DIA @ HISPANIC SOCIETY:
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
chronotopes & dioramas
September 23, 2009- April 18, 2010
STUDIO MUSEUM:
Hurvin Anderson: Peter’s Series 2007–2009
July 16-October 25, 2009
Artists in Residence 2008-9
Khalif Kelly, Adam Pendleton and Dawit L. Petros
July 16–October 29, 2009
30 Seconds off an Inch
November 12, 2009–March 13, 2010
This survey will bring together contemporary artworks by a group of artists who, having absorbed the lessons of U.S.-based Conceptual art and identity politics, imbue their respective practices with a critical sense of play and irreverence adopted from Fluxus, Arte Povera, Gutai and Neoconcretism, among other international movements. Presenting approximately one hundred works by dozens of artists, the exhibition will provide an overview of a generation of artists who use a variety of media, including photography, video, large-scale sculpture, figurative painting and site-specific installations. 30 Seconds aims to show how this group of artists engages with the body and race in clever, subtle and astute ways.
JEWISH MUSEUM:
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010
ICP:
Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010
NEUE GALERIE:
Oskar Kokoschka
July 16-October 5, 2009
From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection
October 15, 2009-February 22, 2010
Otto Dix
March 18-June 28, 2010
BRONX MUSEUM
Intersections Commissions
August 2, 2009– January 3, 2010
Open House: Sunday October 4, 12pm – 5pm
The second of a three-part exhibition, Intersections: The Grand Concourse Commissions presents specially commissioned projects by three contemporary artists considering present-day conditions along the Grand Concourse: Katie Holten (Ireland), Kabir Carter, and Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (Taiwan).
In addition, a special Lobby installation by Acconci Studio will significantly alter the Museum architecture.
Katie Holten, Tree Museum
through October 25, 2009
MUSEO DEL BARRIO
Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis (1900-1945)
Opens Saturday, October 17, 2009- February 28, 2010
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement
March 21 – June 6, 2010
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
October 21, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés
through Nov. 29
ICA PHILADELPHIA
Dance with Camera
September 11, 2009 - March 21, 2010
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
September 11, 2009 - December 6, 2009
Video Art: Replay
Part I: Asking Not Telling
September 11, 2009 - December 6, 2009
SCULPTURE CENTER:
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
Mike Kelley and Michael Smith
September 13 - November 30, 2009
Grand Openings
September 13 - November 30, 2009
Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether, Jay Sanders, Emily Sunblad, and Stefan Tcherepnin
THE DRAWING CENTER:
Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World
September 18–December 18, 2009
X INITIATIVE:
Fritz Haeg, Dome Colony X in the San Gabriels
through October 24, 2009
Solo shows of Tris Vonna-Michell, Luke Fowler, and Keren Cytter
WHITE COLUMNS:
September 10 – October 24, 2009
Gallery Registered - Elena Bajo, Margarida Correia, Gregg Evans, Claudia Weber
White Room Gavin Watson
White Room Rick Myers
The Bulletin Board Brian Kennon
Other People's Projects 2nd Cannons Publications, Opening reception Thursday September 10, 6 - 8PM
THE KITCHEN:
One Minute More: Kate Gilmore, Jamie Isenstein, Oliver Lutz, Clifford Owens, Georgia Sagri, Aki Sasamoto, and Josh Tonsfeldt
September 10 – October 31, 2009
The New York-based artists in this group exhibition create performance-based videos, photographs, and sculptural installations that experiment with various approaches to presenting and documenting durational actions or live events. Some of the artists structure their work around carefully choreographed, task-based activities relating to self-imposed constraints, while others develop more intricate, narrative scenarios responding to a given environment. In both cases, the artists alternatively explore a range of issues relating to labor and stamina, risk and vulnerability, as well as questions of identity that together form of a larger investigation into the physical and mental conditions of contemporary life.
ART IN GENERAL:
Rancourt/Yatsuk, Phase IV
Guy Benfield, Night Store
Shana Moulton
Oct 29- Jan 9, 2010
PERFORMA 09:
Performa 09, the third visual art performance biennial happening November 1-22, 2009 [and 100th anniversary of Futurist Manifesto]
SOME COMMERCIAL GALLERIES [further information about exhibitions in commercial galleries in New York can be obtained at The Douglas Kelley Show List (http://dks.thing.net/) and http://oneartworld.com/]:
Lili Dujourie & Ion Grigorescu at Ludlow 38 (August 28–October 11)
Tauba Auerbach: Here and Now/and Nowhere at Deitch Projects (September 3–Oct. 17). A super-promising artist who uses sign-painting techniques, math, mysticism, and philosophy to “explore the impossible … to violate itself, or crumple it, or double it back on itself.” It’s retinally exciting, logical, and cerebral all at once.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Genesis P-Orridge at Invisible Exports (September 9)
Tom Burr at Bortolami (September 10)
Trine Bumiller at Kathryn Markel (September 10)
Chris Ofili - Afro Margin, and Raoul De Keyser at Zwirner, 19th Street (Sept. 10 – Oct 24)
Mark Bradford, Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins, 22nd St (Sept 10)
Stephen Dean at Sara Meltzer (Sept 10)
Lisa Oppenheim at Harris Lieberman, 89 Vandam at Hudson, (Sept 12- Oct 10)
Carol Bove David Lamelas Corey McCorkle Oscar Tuazon Eli Hansen at Maccarone (September 12- October 24)
Gavin Brown, Europäisch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (three young European artists:
Ida Ekblad, Alistair Frost, and David Hominal) (Sept 12 – Oct 17)
Janine Antoni: Up Against at Luhring Augustine (Sept. 12– Oct. 24). This MacArthur winner returns with a video of herself hanging by ropes, spiderlike, in her daughter’s room—and with a copper device in the form of a gargoyle that allows a woman to urinate standing up. As Antoni puts it, “The body becomes a funnel through which the world has been poured.” I’ll say.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
K8 Hardy at Reena Spaulings (September 13)
Anselm Reyle at Gagosian, 24th Street (September 17)
Paulina Olowska, Stephen G. Rhodes and Catherine Sullivan at Gladstone (September 17- Oct 17)
Damian Ortega at Gladstone's 21st Street project space (September 17)
Sarah Anne Johnson: House on Fire, Julie Saul Gallery [22nd Street] (September 17–November 14). For her third solo show, Johnson combines photography, sculpture, and painting to tell the story of her grandmother’s medical mistreatment. Dark scenarios, enacted by small figures, unfold in an elaborate dollhouse. Uncanny, touching, and formally inventive.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Group shows Swiss Institute opening (Friday Sept 18)
Scott Lyall at Miguel Abreu (Sept 18
Clive Murphy / Ghost Machine at Magnan Projects, 317 Tenth Ave (Sept. 18 - Oct. 31)
Justin Matherly at Dispatch, 127 Henry Street (September 20 - November 1)
Jeff Wall at Marion Goodman (September 22)
Allan Kaprow YARD at Hauser and Wirth, 62 E 69th Street (Sept 23)
YARD will include unique public reinventions of Kaprow’s enduringly influential and highly picturesque 1961 Environment Yard by the prominent performance artist and interventionist William Pope.L, as well as atists Sharon Hayes and Josiah McElheny.
Maya Lin's installation at Salon 94 (September 24)
Justine Kurland at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (Oct. 15–Nov. 14). This photographer’s exploration of fictive utopias and the dreams of the itinerant gives us pictures of empty freight trains rolling through mountain landscapes, hobo musicians, and wizened prospectors still looking to strike it rich. A perfect photographic chaser to the Met’s Robert Frank show.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Barbara Ess at Thierry Goldberg (October 16)
Paul Chan: Sade for Sade’s Sake at Greene Naftali (Oct. 22– Dec. 5). Chan’s five-hour-plus looped video of shadowy figures engaging in religious rituals and mayhem, experiencing natural disasters, and having sex is a visual ballad, putting all Chan’s interests in one darkly sexual, psychologically challenging basket.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Sarah Morris at Petzel (October 23 - December 5)
Emily Jacir at Alexander and Bonin (October 24 – November 28)
Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps (October 24)
Olaf Breuning at Gladstone (October 29- Dec 5)
Peter Fischli & David Weiss at Matthew Marks (Oct. 30–Jan. 16). I think of this extraordinary Swiss team as “Shamans of the Alps.” For this extravaganza, they’re building an installation out of 800 magazine ads, and showing their gnarly clay-and-rubber figures as well as a new film starring their animal avatars, a rat and a bear.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Sylvia Sleigh at I-20 Gallery (Nov. 5–Dec. 19). The 93-year-old painter will present small-scale portraits (made in the sixties and seventies) of noted critics, curators, and other artists, nude, with big heads of bad hair, and flowery clothes. Sleigh’s paintings and watercolors are diamonds in the rough, waiting to be rediscovered and savored.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read (Nov. 19–Dec. 19). Our perennial and underappreciated wizard of the artistic id will exhibit her wily ways with phallic and labial forms, her penchant for intense color, and her knack for turning any material into something talismanic and weird.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University at Susan Inglitt Gallery (Dec. 4–Jan. 23). This artist collective of aesthetic marauders and walking bullshit detectors has opened its own academy, in a donated Tribeca building, intending to subvert art schools’ market-driven ethos. The semester-end exhibition of work could be the most interesting new thing you’ll see all fall.—Jerry Saltz, New York, Aug. 23, 09
SOME EVENTS:
Dia Talks:
Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Moyra Davey on Louise Bourgeois
Monday, September 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
T.J. Wilcox on Dan Flavin
and the Hudson River School
Monday, November 16, 2009, 6:30 pm
Charline von Heyl on Bruce Nauman
Monday, December 7, 2009, 6:30 pm
Liz Deschenes on Robert Irwin
Monday, December 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
Walid Raad on Bernd and Hilla Becher
Monday, January 11, 2010, 6:30 pm
BRIC Contemporary, Status Report, Wednesday, September 9, 7 pm, artists Coco Fusco, Vicky Funari, and Alex Rivera will discuss moving image portrayals of border issues, immigration, and work. The evening will focus on Coco Fusco's video installation, Dolores from 10 to 10; Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre's film, Maquilapolis, and Alex Rivera's film, Sleep Dealer. Moderated by Elizabeth Ferrer, curator of Status Report and Director of Contemporary Art.
Artists Talk on Art panel on "Post Crisis Aesthetics" at SVA (23rd Street auditorium) moderated by Alexandra Peers (September 18) Richard Flood etc.
New Museum, Michael Smith, Thursday, September 24, 7 PM
Michael Smith's original approach to video, installation, and performance has broken artistic ground. His eponymous alter ego Mike, known for pathologically banal behavior, sends up cultural normalcy and spotlights the ways people consume ideas and lifestyles marketed to them. For this event, New Museum Adjunct Curator and Rhizome Executive Director Lauren Cornell will talk with Smith about his use of comedy, both as a way to engage and quantify audience response and to generate new work.
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