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Edith Maybin "The Tenby Document"
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[0]- at Edwynn Houk Gallery
- Media: Photography
- Ends Today
"The Tenby Document" is an intimate exploration of the interactions between mother and daughter, and the discovery of the “self” through another. In 2005, Maybin began to photograph herself and her daughter (...)
Miriam Wosk Bigas Luna "Collar de Moscas"
[1] [0]- at The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts
- Media: Painting - Other - Video installation
- Ends Today
The Gabarron Foundation presents “Miriam Wosk - Bigas Luna: Collar de Moscas”, a two-person exhibition featuring large-scale paintings and collages by Wosk, and an installation that includes a short, experimental (...)
"Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City" Exhibition
[3] [0]- at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
- Media: Photography
- Closes tomorrow
The exhibition "Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City" features the work of five contemporary New York–based photographers drawn primarily from new acquisitions in the Photography Collection. (...)
"Garbage Picker! The Contemporary Artist as Chiffonnier(e)" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Affirmation Arts
- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Other
- Closes tomorrow
Drawing on the concept of the 19th century Parisian chiffonnier(e), or ragpicker, Garbage Picker! explores the concept of today's artist as an artist-chiffonnier(e) - or one who attributes new aesthetic (...)
"It’s Not Easy" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Exit Art
- Media: Installation
- Closes tomorrow
"It’s Not Easy" is an exhibition inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green.” As new buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations (...)
"Lisette Model 1901-1983" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Zabriskie Gallery
- Media: Photography
- Closes tomorrow
[Image: Lisette Model "Woman at Coney Island, New York" (1977) gelatin silver print 19.25 x 15.25 in.]
"Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Exit Art
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- Closes tomorrow
Long after the cassette tape has become an obsolete relic of a clumsier analog era, the essence of the mixtape lives on through CDs and MP3 playlists. "Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition" pays (...)
Frank Gohlke "Where We Live"
[0] [0]- at Howard Greenberg Gallery
- Media: Photography
- Closes tomorrow
[Image: Frank Gohlke "Karweg Place and Eldert Lane, Woodhaven, Queens, NY 2003" (2006) gelatin silver print 30 x 40 in.]
"Everything Else" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Franklin Parrasch Gallery
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 2 days
[Image: Sandra Eula Lee "The Work of Memory" color copies, foam core, wood 84 x 75 x 15 in.]
"Pace Prints Summer '08" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Pace Prints Gallery
- Media: Prints
- Closes in 2 days
Emily A. Gruppe Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Spanierman Gallery
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 2 days
A prolific artist and an influential teacher, Emile Gruppé enjoyed a long and successful career that spanned over six decades. Best known for his vigorous portrayals of the harbors and houses of Gloucester, (...)
Summer Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Bill Hodges Gallery
- Media: Painting - Photography
- Closes in 2 days
"Summer '08" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Lower East Side Printshop
- Media: Prints
- Closes in 3 days
"Summer '08" is guest curated by William Villalongo, and features new works. [Image: Hope Dector "One of the many views from the foot trails near Cadillac Mountain Highway" Etching on postcard (2008) (...)
"Summer Group Show" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Mckee Gallery
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 3 days
[Image: Philip Guston "Untitled (Red & Black Book)" (1969) acrylic on panel 24 x 26.5 in.]
Jana Maneva Cuposka “Connection”
[0] [0]- at Gallery MC New York
- Media: Drawing
- Closes in 3 days
In her first exhibition outside Europe, the artist will exhibit around thirty drawings made in the combine technique, in which grotesque figures are dominant.
Philip Guston "Works on Paper"
[3] [0]- at The Morgan Library & Museum
- Media: Drawing
- Closes in 3 days
The first retrospective of Philip Guston's (1913–1980) drawings in twenty years, this exhibition is the only opportunity to view these drawings in America. Philip Guston was a prolific draftsman who often (...)
"Hot & Cold" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Maxwell Davidson Gallery
- Media: Photography - Prints - Sculpture
- Closes in 4 days
[Image: Tim Prentice "Red Zinger" (2007) Stainless steel, aluminum and plastic, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of Maxwell Davidson Gallery.]
Group Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Leo Kaplan Modern
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes in 4 days
A rotating showcase of gallery artists. [Image: Dan Dailey "Vulamina, from Illuminated Sculpture Series" (2007) Fabricated, patinated, nickel and gold plated bronze. Blown glass globe and shade, sandblasted (...)
"Ceremonies of Summer" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at latincollector gallery
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Digital
- Closes in 9 days
Ceremonies of Summer is a multimedia exhibition curated by Mónica Espinel. The exhibition is an homage to Marta Traba, critic, author, curator and historian, and was inspired by her first novel “Las ceremonias (...)
"Gallery Selections" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Spanierman Gallery
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 9 days
"Gallery Selections" includes examples dating from the 1920's to the present. The exhibition reflects many strands of interconnection among artists belonging to different contexts and generations. [Image: (...)
"Original Books" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Cohen Amador Gallery
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 9 days
"Original Books,” features a selection of black and white photographs from five prominent, contemporary photographers from five different countries. Culled from unique photo-book projects, the styles and (...)
Charles Matton "Selected Works"
[0] [0]- at Forum Gallery
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes in 9 days
Charles Matton's box constructions each an exquisitely detailed miniature recreation of a real or imagined location. Matton has said of his works: "I create two kinds of boxes: those whose purpose is to (...)
"Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection" Exhibition
[2] [1]- at International Center of Photography
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 10 days
This exhibition brings together works by three of the most important photographers of the 1960s: Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Lisette Model. The intense creative relationships between these three artists (...)
"Bill Wood's Business" Exhibition
[2] [0]- at International Center of Photography
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 10 days
Bill Wood's business was photography—and he produced tens of thousands of images over the course of his career. From 1937 (the tail end of the Great Depression) through the boom years that followed World (...)
"Harding Puls: Hardanger Artists inspired by Olav H. Hauge and Geirr Tveitt" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Trygve Lie Gallery
- Media: Painting - Prints - Crafts
- Closes in 10 days
2008 marks the 100 year anniversary for the birth of poet Olav H. Hauge and pianist and composer Geirr Tveitt. The two artists are honored in New York with a special exhibition and concert. The art exhibition (...)
"Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan" Exhibition
[7] [5]- at International Center of Photography
- Media: Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 10 days
"Heavy Light" will present the exciting and highly individualistic work of a new generation of Japanese artists who have come of age following the Asian economic crash of 1990. For the last several years, (...)
Morris Louis "Summer Selections"
[0] [0]- at Ameringer Yohe Fine Art
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 13 days
[Image: Morris Louis "Pillar of Risk" (1961) acrylic on canvas 89.25 x 52.5 in.]
"Bread and Soccer" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Austrian Cultural Forum NYC
- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- Closes in 16 days
In June 2008, Austria and Switzerland play host to the European championship soccer tournament UEFA Euro 2008. Spectators and players alike will celebrate a game that has been a cultural phenomenon long (...)
"Frida Kahlo and the Mexican Renaissance" Exhibition
[2] [0]- at Throckmorton Fine Art
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 17 days
The twentieth century’s first revolution was in Mexico, 1910-1920. The Revolution was calamitous— seven percent of the population perished. However, the social convulsions gave birth to new political (...)
Asa Ames "Occupation Sculpturing"
[0] [0]- at American Folk Art Museum
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes in 17 days
Asa Ames is a mysterious and tragic figure. The young sculptor died from consumption when he was 27 years, 7 months, and 7 days old. Though his own life was short, he immortalized family members and neighbors (...)
"Dalí: Painting and Film" Exhibition
[2] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Film
- Closes in 18 days
Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist's work. Both an inspiration and (...)
"Jazz Score" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Prints - Other - Film
- Closes in 18 days
The introduction of contemporary jazz to film scoring in the mid-twentieth century brought fresh forms of sophistication and innovation to world cinema. Musicians like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John (...)
"Salvador Dalí: Consumer/Consumed" Film Program
[1] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Film
- Closes in 18 days
In the natural world, the acts of consuming and being consumed create an inherent tension between organisms; the transfer of energy that links organisms in a specific community creates producers and primary (...)
"Four Summer" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Bonni Benrubi Gallery
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 23 days
"Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger" Exhibition
[7] [5]- at American Folk Art Museum
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- Closes in 24 days
There is a long history of academically trained artists drawing inspiration from self-taught artists and thus freeing themselves to think in unexpected ways and on their own idiosyncratic terms, almost (...)
"Adoption: Palimpsest of Identity" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Gallery Korea
- Media: Photography - Other - Video installation
- Closes in 27 days
Curated by Jeehey Kim, "Adoption: Palimpsest of Identity" features six artists who deal with the identity of the adoptee, an identity that is barely discussed in identity politics using the media of video (...)
"19th & 20th Century European & American Paintings: Selected Works from the Gallery Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Hammer Galleries
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 28 days
[Image: Robert Henri "Thammy" (1915) Oil on canvas 24 x 20 in.]
"Recent Acquisitions (And Some Thoughts on the Current Art Market)" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Galerie St. Etienne
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- Closes in 29 days
Galerie St. Etienne's summer exhibition is a potpourri of recent acquisitions and highlights of the preceding season. While the booming art scene has somewhat diminished the availability of top-quality (...)
"Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" Exhibition
[4] [2]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Architecture - Product
- Closes in 53 days
This exhibition surveys the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and displays the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result. Within the gallery, (...)
"Young Architects Program 2008" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Architecture
- Closes in 53 days
The Young Architects Program, jointly presented by MoMA and P.S.1 each year since 2000, enables emerging architects to design creative interpretations of P.S.1's large entrance courtyard, with the winning (...)
"Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Architecture
- Closes in 60 days
Rem Koolhaas's watercolor "Plan of Dreamland" (1977), a recent acquisition, is the point of departure for this presentation of selections from the Architecture and Design collection. "Dreamland: Architectural (...)
"Implant" Exhibition
[1] [2]- at The UBS Art Gallery
- Media: Painting - Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 64 days
Organized by The Horticultural Society of New York, "Implant" investigates the intimate bond between artists and plants through the perspective of contemporary art. Ranging from botanically accurate sculptures (...)
"Focus: Picasso Sculpture" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes in 67 days
Pablo Picasso is perhaps best known for his paintings, but his sculptures are among the most radical, thought-changing works of art of the modern period. This installation, drawn from the Museum's collection, (...)
"Kirchner and the Berlin Street" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- Closes in 74 days
This exhibition brings together German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's renowned Street Scenes series, created between 1913 and 1915. Considered by many to be the highpoint of Kirchner's career as (...)
"Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Prints
- Closes in 74 days
Wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosities, arose in mid-sixteenth-century Europe as repositories for all manner of wondrous and exotic objects. In essence these collections which combined specimens, diagrams, (...)
"Elected Members Invitational" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at National Sculpture Society
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes in 78 days
The Elected Members Invitational showcases the sculpture of some of National Sculpture Society's finest artists. The open-theme exhibition alternates annually with NSS's Fellows Invitational and the works (...)
"Just In: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Drawing - Architecture - Product
- Closes in 94 days
Organized by Paola Antonelli, Curator, and Christian Larsen, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, this installation draws from acquisitions made over the past two years by the Department (...)
"Looking at Music" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Painting - Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 130 days
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 (...)
"Focus: Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 191 days
This installation, drawn from the Museum's collection of paintings by Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, focuses specifically on the fertile years between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, during which each (...)
"Ateliers Jean Prouvé" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Furniture
- Closes in 214 days
With all the excitement surrounding today's digital manufacturing technologies, it is interesting to look at an earlier historical moment of workshop mass-production, as practiced by the great French architect (...)
George Lois "The Esquire Covers"
[5] [1]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Graphics - Photography
- Closes in 215 days
From 1962 to 1972, George Lois changed the face of magazine design with his ninety-two covers for Esquire magazine. He stripped the cover down to a graphically concise yet conceptually potent image that (...)
"Focus: Joseph Beuys" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- Closes in 266 days
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) is widely understood to be the most important German artist of the post–World War II period. Highly provocative and always controversial, he and his peers reinvented a thriving (...)
"The Gutenberg Bible" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
- Media: Other
- Closes in 368 days
The first substantial printed book in the West is the royal-folio two-volume Bible on display, comprising nearly 1,300 pages and printed in Mainz on the central Rhine by Johann Gutenberg (ca. 1390s–1468) (...)
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"Folk Art Revealed" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at American Folk Art Museum
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Furniture - Crafts
"Folk Art Revealed," opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings, (...)
"The Adventures of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
- Media: Other
The REAL Winnie-the-Pooh won't be found on a video, in a movie, on a T-shirt or a lunchbox. Since 1987, the REAL Pooh and four of his best friends--Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tigger--have been living at (...)
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Akemi Nishimura "Mind of Flower"
[0] [0]- at A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
- Media: Prints
- Starts in 5 days
[Image: Akemi Nishimura "Madonna Ver. 5" Etching on Paper 28.5 x 28.5 in.]
Ana Rosa Farias Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Jadite Galleries
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 5 days
Group Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Jadite Galleries
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 5 days
[Image: Oscar Barra "Sirena Iluminada" (2008) watercolor]
Sal Panasci "New Paintings"
[0] [0]- at Jadite Galleries
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 5 days
[Image: Sal Panasci "Planes" (2008) oil on canvas, 40 x 36 in.]
11th Annual Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition by Ceramic Artist Friendship Association
[0] [0]- at Nippon Gallery
- Media: Ceramics
- Starts in 6 days
The purpose of this exhibition is to further the cultural ties between the sister cities of New York and Tokyo by encouraging and honoring the creativity of their ceramic artists. The exhibition will include (...)
Josef Koudelka "Invasion 68: Prague"
[0] [0]- at Pace MacGill
- Media: Photography
- Starts in 7 days
A selection of images from Josef Koudelka's award-winning record of the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968.
"Unforeseen Reflections: Recent Paintings by Gallery Artists" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 7 days
John Ashbery "Collages"
[0] [0]- at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
- Media: Other
- Starts in 7 days
Judith Joy Ross "Protest"
[0] [0]- at Pace MacGill
- Media: Photography
- Starts in 7 days
[Image: Judith Joy Ross "Peter Christine, Protesting the U.S. War in Iraq, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania" (2007) gold-toned gelatin silver print 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.]
Mark Podwal "Jewish Magic"
[0] [0]- at Forum Gallery
- Media: Painting - Drawing
- Starts in 7 days
Superstitions, ritual, mythology, angels and magic have long had a place in religious traditions and writings. In Judaism, these elements have been used to emphasize the Powers of Good; thus, "Jewish Magic." (...)
Trevor Winkfield "Recent Paintings"
[0] [0]- at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 7 days
[Image: Trevor Winkfield "As Moth to the Flame..." (2007) acrylic on linen 30 x 36 in.]
"In Residence: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at EFA Gallery
- Media: Sculpture
- Starts in 8 days
"In Residence" is a collaboration between The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Sculpture Space, Utica. The exhibition is co-curated by Christa Erickson and Patterson Sims, and celebrates the crucial (...)
"Color and Light" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at David Findlay Jr. Fine Art
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 9 days
[Image: John Opper "Jazz-M-68" (1968) acrylic on canvas 46 x 46 in.]
Charles Seliger "Ways of Nature"
[0] [0]- at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 9 days
Charles Seliger's ninth solo exhibition at the gallery, "Ways of Nature," includes nineteen paintings on Masonite completed between 2006 and 2008. The artist’s newest works are all dense, small-scale, (...)
Theodore Roszak Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- Starts in 9 days
This exhibition of works by Theodore Roszak includes one major bronze sculpture, "Insect Plant" (1957), and sixteen works on paper that date from c.1947 to 1958. Many of the detailed drawings represent (...)
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