Paula Cooper Gallery "534 W 21st St." - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Paula Cooper Gallery "534 W 21st St.". Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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David Novros Exhibition
A series of new paintings by David Novros, monumentally scaled to the gallery’s main location at 534 West 21st Street, are composed of modular painted panels and large open areas of wall. Novros is known...More »
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Luciano Fabro Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an expansive exhibition of works by Luciano Fabro across both New York galleries. This will be the gallery’s first one-person exhibition of Fabro’s work since announcing the...More »
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Ja’Tovia Gary “You Smell Like Outside…”
For her second exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, Ja’Tovia Gary will premiere a new film, Quiet As It’s Kept, and a sculpture from her ongoing Citational Ethics series. The artist continues her practice...More »
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Rudolf Stingel Exhibition
For his tenth one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, Rudolf Stingel presents five new oil paintings at the gallery’s original Chelsea location at 534 W 21st Street. Over the past few years,...More »
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Sol LeWitt “Wall Drawings & Structures”
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Bruce Conner & Jay DeFeo “(“we are not what we seem”)”
Together with the Bruce Conner Trust and The Jay DeFeo Foundation, the Paula Cooper Gallery presents the first two-person exhibition of their work. Throughout their careers Conner andDeFeo were in frequent...More »
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Jennifer Bartlett Exhibition
A sense of place permeates the work of Jennifer Bartlett. From the specific homes and gardens of friends and family, to such universal natural phenomena as the ocean, each new site presents challenges...More »
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Cecily Brown Exhibition
Painted with a diverse palette, from warm polychrome hues to brooding velvety blacks, Brown’s work demonstrates a unique combination of abstraction and figuration. Transcending classical notions of genre...More »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sarah Charlesworth and Sherrie Levine Exhibition
Curated by Sherrie Levine Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sarah Charlesworth, and Sherrie Levine. Curated by Sherrie Levine, the exhibition brings together...More »
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Dan Walsh Exhibition
An exhibition of new work by Dan Walsh will examine the artist’s ever-expanding vocabulary of material, form and scale. On view will be paintings, works on paper, artist books, and sculptures whose geometric...More »
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John Chamberlain & Donald Judd Exhibition
A two-person exhibition of work by John Chamberlain and Donald Judd, organized by Jim Jacobs and Paula Cooper Gallery, will open on November 2, 2019. The show will examine the artists’ parallel experimentation...More »
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Christian Marclay Exhibition
48 War Movies (2019) is a single-channel video that collapses conflicts from the Civil War to Iraq into a horrifying aggregate spectacle of war. Dramatizations are collaged into almost indistinguishable...More »
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“Non-Vicious Circle” Exhibition
“Non-Vicious Circle,” Paula Cooper Gallery’s summer show will present a selection of sculptures and installations by Sam Durant, Liz Glynn, Walid Raad, Kelley Walker, and Meg Webster. The exhibition takes...More »
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David Novros Exhibition
An exhibition of work by David Novros will open at Paula Cooper Gallery, highlighting the breadth of his artistic production. In addition to several large-scale multipartite canvases—for which the artist...More »
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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Liz Glynn, Robert Grosvenor, Justin Matherly, Paul Pfeiffer Exhibition
Opening on April 4th, 2019 is a group exhibition of major sculpture by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Liz Glynn, Robert Grosvenor, Justin Matherly, and Paul Pfeiffer, each inhabiting a discrete part of the...More »
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Sarah Charlesworth Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013). The show will focus on Charlesworth’s rarely exhibited work from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, beginning with...More »
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Group Exhibition
The presentation includes work by Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Jonathan Borofsky, Elizabeth Murray, Joel Shapiro, and Jackie Winsor—artists who were central to the gallery’s program during the 1970s...More »
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Tauba Auerbach “A Broken Stream”
A BROKEN STREAM, an exhibition of video, sculpture, drawing and painting by Tauba Auerbach, will open on November 10, 2018, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Working in several new media, Auerbach will probe fluid...More »
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“50 Years: An Anniversary” Exhibition
A Benefit Exhibition for March For Our Lives “50 Years: An Anniversary” celebrates the October 1968 opening of the Paula Cooper Gallery, the first art gallery in SoHo at 96-100 Prince Street. The inaugural...More »
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Carl Andre and Lynda Benglis Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents two one-person exhibitions: Carl Andre and Lynda Benglis. The presentations celebrate both artists’ long history with the gallery, as they first exhibited with Paula Cooper...More »
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“Bernd and Hilla Becher In Dialogue with Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt” Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents Bernd and Hilla Becher: In Dialogue with Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt, an exhibition organized in collaboration with Max Becher and Antonio Homem. The Bechers’ well-known and...More »
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Bruce Conner Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of two films by Bruce Conner, REPORT (1963-1967) and MARILYN TIMES FIVE (1968-1973), both recently restored by the Conner Family Trust. Conner, a protean...More »
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Mark di Suvero Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Mark di Suvero. Throughout his sixty-year career, di Suvero has created vibrant and dynamic works, which fuse vitality and movement with complex construction....More »
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Cecily Brown “A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!”
Paula Cooper Gallery presents a one-person exhibition of recent paintings by Cecily Brown. Titled “A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!” after a poem by Emily Dickinson. Steeped in the academic tradition...More »
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Carey Young “Palais de Justice”
Paula Cooper Gallery presents a one-person exhibition of recent work by Carey Young. The show will present Young’s video work, Palais de Justice (2017), as well as a new series of photographs. Palais...More »
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David Novros Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of important works by David Novros created in the 1970s. The exhibition will be the artist’s first one-person show with the gallery since 2009 and will include...More »
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Evan Holloway Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of recent work by Evan Holloway. The exhibition will be the artist’s first one-person show in New York since 2010, and his first with Paula Cooper Gallery. ...More »
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Julian Lethbridge Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of recent work by Julian Lethbridge. The exhibition will be the artist’s first one-person show since 2013. Informed by the vocabulary of abstract and minimal...More »
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Liz Glynn “The Myth of Singularity”
Paula Cooper Gallery presents eight bronze figurative sculptures by Liz Glynn from her project, The Myth of Singularity. Throughout 2013, Glynn executed a cycle of site-specific performances entitled...More »
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Mark di Suvero Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Mark di Suvero. The exhibit highlights the artist’s continued preeminence in abstract sculpture throughout his near sixty-year career. As art...More »
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Sol LeWitt Exhibition
At 534 West 21st Street, the gallery will present an exhibition of Sol LeWitt wall drawings. Diverging from his early austere minimalist aesthetic, Wall Drawing #368 (1982) as well as two Styrofoam wall...More »
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Meg Webster Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery present an exhibition of new work by Meg Webster. Meg Webster’s work finds inspiration in the intrinsic beauty of natural materials. Using metal, glass and organic elements like...More »
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Charles Gaines Exhibition
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Walid Raad “Letters to the Reader”
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents Letters to the Reader, a major sculptural installation by Walid Raad, in an exhibition scheduled to open on February 27th, 2016 at 534 West 21st Street. Letters to...More »
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Tauba Auerbach “Projective Instrument”
The Paula Cooper Gallery announces Projective Instrument, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Tauba Auerbach. Projective Instrument celebrates and builds on the 1915 treatise Projective...More »
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Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen “Things Around the House”
Things Around the House, an exhibition of works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The exhibition includes nearly 100 works from the house and studio where Oldenburg has lived since 1971 and which...More »
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Christian Marclay Exhibition
Presented for the first time in North America, the large-scale video installation Surround Sounds (2014-15) consists of animated onomatopoeias projected onto four walls of a darkened room. To make the...More »
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“Robert Grosvenor” Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents a selection of works by Robert Grosvenor. The exhibition includes two large-scale sculptures from different periods as well as a selection of recent photography, all shedding...More »
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Kelley Walker Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents a series of twelve recent brick paintings by Kelley Walker. This will be Walker’s fifth one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery. Created between 2013-14, Walker’s...More »
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Peter Moore Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs by Peter Moore (1932-1993). The exhibition is on view in the front gallery of 534 West 21st Street. In the early 1960s, Moore began documenting...More »
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Dan Walsh Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents a selection of works (1994-2014) by Dan Walsh. The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper, books, and mixed media, shedding light on Walsh’s artistic evolution...More »
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Rudolf Stingel Exhibition
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Mark di Suvero “Luney Breakout”
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents Mark di Suvero’s new powerful sculpture, Luney Breakout. Several of the artist’s large, joyously colorful paintings are shown with the sculptures. Luney Breakout...More »
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Carl Andre Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents a selection of major sculptures by Carl Andre produced over a thirty year period. The exhibition highlights Andre’s commitment to pure matter in simple, often geometric...More »
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Sherrie Levine “Red Yellow Blue”
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents Red Yellow Blue, an exhibition of new works by Sherrie Levine. The title Red Yellow Blue is taken from Aleksander Rodchenko’s three panel monochrome of 1921, Pure...More »
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Matias Faldbakken Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents Matias Faldbakken’s one-person exhibition. Matias Faldbakken’s work, a combination of iconophilia and iconophobia, is primarily concerned with the various tensions...More »
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Joel Shapiro Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents the exhibition of a major new work by Joel Shapiro. The show marks the work’s debut in New York after an initial version of the piece was presented in 2012 at Rice University...More »
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Christian Marclay “New Paintings and Works on Paper”
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Christian Marclay. This new group of works consists of silkscreen on painted backgrounds, featuring onomatopoeias...More »
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Sophie Calle “Absence”
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents Absence, a special exhibition of works by Sophie Calle created between 2006 and the present. The works, an ever-changing project inspired by the loss of Calle’s mother...More »
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Sol LeWitt Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents the exhibition of an important wall drawing conceived by Sol LeWitt for the Venice Biennale of 1988. Not exhibited since, Wall Drawing #564: Complex forms with color ink...More »
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Mark di Suvero “Little Dancer”
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents Little Dancer, a new large-scale steel sculpture by Mark di Suvero. The work is an assemblage of intersecting l-beams and carved kinetic spirals. Mark di Suvero was...More »
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Wayne Gonzales Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works by Wayne Gonzales. The artist has been represented by the gallery since 1999 and is known for his paintings of crowds and other public gatherings based on found...More »
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Beatrice Caracciolo "Battaglia"
Paula Cooper Gallery presents Battaglia, an exhibition of new drawings by Beatrice Caracciolo. For this exhibition, Caracciolo brings her vigorous, precise linework to bear on the theme of the crowd...More »
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Julian Lethbridge Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Julian Lethbridge. Julian Lethbridge uses multiple, partially obscured layers of paint to create works of complex and disorienting spatial...More »
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Meg Webster Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Meg Webster. In the gallery’s front room, the artist is exhibiting a selection of works of varying scales, each formally bound by its naturally...More »
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Carl Andre "Redoubt"
The Paula Cooper Gallery announces an exhibition of Carl Andre’s large-scale sculpture, Redoubt. Consisting of four parallel rows of twenty-five western cedar red timbers, the sculpture was created...More »
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"Einstein on the Beach" Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery marks the revival of Robert Wilson’s and Philip Glass’ masterwork, Einstein on the Beach, with an exhibition of drawings, sketches, texts and notations used for the creation of...More »
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Paul Pfeiffer "Playroom"
The Paula Cooper Gallery announces Paul Pfeiffer’s first exhibition at the gallery and the artist’s first one-person show in New York since 2007. An artist working in the field of video, photography,...More »
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Sherrie Levine "A Dazzle of Zebra"
The Paula Cooper Gallery announces an exhibition of new works by Sherrie Levine. A Dazzle of Zebra proposes a series of encounters with newly made objects and images in bronze, glass and handmade paper....More »
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Dan Walsh Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Dan Walsh. Walsh will show paintings and works on paper in which he continues to explore “process generated images,” the artist’s...More »
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Robert Grosvenor Exhibition
Robert Grosvenor presents a new work at Paula Cooper Gallery. Untitled (2011) is a two-part sculpture whose components include fiberglass, aluminum and concrete blocks. The exhibition will also present...More »
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Mark di Suvero Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works, including a painting and a monumental steel sculpture, by the preeminent American artist Mark di Suvero. Mark di Suvero continues to test the limits of large-scale...More »
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Roy Lichtenstein "Entablatures"
Having already risen to prominence in the early 60’s with his Pop art subjects, Lichtenstein began a series of Mirrors paintings in 1969. By 1970, while continuing on the Mirrors series, he started work...More »
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Sol LeWitt "Arcs and Lines"
An exhibition of Sol LeWitt wall drawings composed of arcs and lines from the 1970s and 1980s. From the simple straight line, in black pencil on a white wall, of his first wall drawings, to the luminous...More »
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"Elemental" Exhibition
[Image: Donald Judd "Untitled" (1982) 4 brushed aluminum, yellow plexiglass elements, each: 19 3/4 x 39 5/8 x 19 3/4 in., overall:19 3/4 x 217 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.]More »
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John Chamberlain Exhibition
With works ranging from 1962 through 1990, the exhibition will present a selection of free-standing pieces and wall sculptures made in Chamberlain’s iconic idiom of crushed metal from car bodies and other...More »
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Christian Marclay "The Clock"
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents the US premiere of Christian Marclay's groundbreaking new 24-hour video work The Clock. Called "an abundant, magnificent work" (The Financial Times) "relentless and compelling"...More »
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Sherrie Levine Exhibition
The exhibition will include two series of 18 monochrome paintings based on the various tones of grey and blue found in Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalents. The Equivalents are a series of photographs of cloud...More »
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Dan Flavin Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of four early Dan Flavin works, produced between 1964 and 1975. The exhibition provides a look into Flavin’s varied configurations of paired contrasting...More »
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Mark di Suvero Exhibition
The exhibition presents Nova Albion, 1964-1965, a monumental 24-feet high sculpture made of steel and redwood logs. Nova Albion is named after the white cliffs of northern California that were seen by...More »
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Sam Durant "Dead Labor Day”
The show will include a large sculpture based on the scaffold used to hang the famous Chicago anarchists known as the Haymarket Martyrs (shown in the image above). Monument-like in scale, the sculpture...More »
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Group Show
Paula Cooper Gallery presents a group exhibition of sculpture and painting.More »
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Robert Grosvenor Exhibition
The works cover a period in Grosvenor’s work, from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, when the artist was working primarily with found industrial materials such as steel, concrete, plastic or fiberglass,...More »
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Walid Raad "Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World"
Raad’s ongoing project titled Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World proceeds from the recent emergence in the Arab world of a new infrastructure for the visual arts comprising...More »
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"Stripes/Solids" Exhibition
The works in this show, dating from 1962 to 2008, embody a clarity and resolution of line, color and form through simple gestures.More »
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David Novros Exhibition
An original member of Park Place, the historic New York artist collective, Novros is well known for his large, abstract paintings on irregularly shaped, multipaneled canvases. With their sensuous and reflective...More »
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"After Images" Exhibition
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of 19th, 20th and 21st century works organized in conjunction with Stephen Mazoh, exploring the tradition of artists copying the work of other artists. These...More »
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Sophie Calle "Take Care of Yourself"
In this “tour de force of feminine responses…executed in a wild range of media,” Sophie Calle orchestrates a virtual chorus of women’s interpretations and assessments of a breakup letter she received in...More »
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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Exhibition
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s work merges the realms of the musical and the visual, mining unexpected sources for their musical potential and creating situations or devices in which sonic events get expressed...More »
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Rudolf Stingel Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by internationally acclaimed artist Rudolf Stingel. In utilizing, and often de-mystifying, what seem to be radically varied techniques of...More »
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"Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice" Exhibition
The title of the exhibition is taken from the 1978 film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet, based on the poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" (A roll of the dice...More »
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Kelley Walker Exhibition
Highly conceptual and visually provocative, Kelley Walker’s work tackles some of today’s most complex debates around issues of circulation and reproduction, authenticity and authorship, and the banality...More »
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Carl Andre Exhibition
Continuing his strategy of arranging standardized elements in geometric configurations, Andre’s new works take pre-cut columns of western red cedar wood as their constituent building blocks. Placing these...More »
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Mark di Suvero "New Sculpture"
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of recent sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Mark di Suvero, from May 9 through June 30, 2008. The exhibition will present a 21-feet high structure...More »
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Sherrie Levine Exhibition
The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Sherrie Levine, from April 3 through May 3, 2008. The exhibition will include two new bronze sculptures cast from found objects: one, False...More »