November 2011
56 posts
Hide and Seek
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
“The first major museum exhibition to focus on themes of gender and sexuality in modern American portraiture, HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture brings together more than one hundred works in a wide range of media, including paintings, photographs, works on paper, film, and installation art. The exhibition...
Storefront for Art and Architecture →
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012
“Founded in 1982, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Our program of exhibitions, artists talks, film screenings, conferences and publications is intended to generate dialogue and collaboration...
Carsten Holler
Carsten Höller: Experience
10/26/11 - 1/15/12
New Museum 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002
From the website ““Carsten Höller: Experience” is the most comprehensive US exhibition to date of the artist’s engaging work. The current show gathers together a number of the artist’s signature works in an arrangement that transforms the viewer’s experience of time and space. Originally trained as a ...
Observer Profiles RoseLee Goldberg and Performa... →
“Repeat Performance: The Redoubtable RoseLee Goldberg’s Performa Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever.”
“Impress me, please, without taking your clothes off”
– RoseLee Goldberg on Performa 11
la mama transition
“TWO years ago, Ellen Stewart, the founder and longtime impresario of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in the East Village, was speaking to her entire staff at a nearby restaurant when she dropped a bombshell. “Mia,” she said, “will be the new me.”
That would be Mia Yoo, who, while it was widely understood was being groomed as a successor, had no idea this announcement was coming....
Pat Passlof 1928-2011
Pat Passlof, an Abstract Expressionist painter whose canvases vibrate with unpredictable line and thick, luminous color, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 83.
A long-planned exhibition of Ms. Passlof’s work is scheduled to go on view at the gallery on Saturday Nov. 19 and run through Dec. 23.
The New York Times has an obituary here and had just run an article about Ms. Passlof...
Maurizio Cattelan: All
All
November 4, 2011–January 22, 2012
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) New York, NY 10128-0173
From the website
“Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture,...
DANA SCHUTZ
IF THE FACE HAD WHEELS
Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College State University of New York 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577-1400
SEPTEMBER 25-DECEMBER 18, 2011
Dana Schutz combines fantasy and reality, humor and horror, to create figurative paintings that abound with expressionist energy. One of the most important young artists to emerge in the past ten years, she developed...
“‘De Kooning: A Retrospective,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is the most...”
– New York Magazine (read the rest here).
de Kooning - a Review →
“The Museum of Modern Art has never known quite what to do with Willem de Kooning. You can package Jackson Pollock as drips and Barnett Newman as zips, but de Kooning, who painted both opulent abstractions and big, blowsy dames, resists easy branding. So, apart from a show of late work in 1997, the museum has neglected him, until now.” — New York Times
de Kooning: A Retrospective
September 18, 2011–January 9, 2012
From MoMA’s website
“This is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s development over...
The Mill and the Cross
From the Press Kit
“In 2005, the writer and art critic Michael Francis Gibson saw Lech Majewski’s Angelus in a cinema in Paris. Fascinated by the director’s painterly vision, he gave him a copy of his book The Mill and the Cross, an analysis of Pieter Bruegel’s painting The Way to Calvary. Majewski, whose creative journey began with painting and poetry, admired the depth of Gibson’s...
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Eva Hesse Spectres 1960
The sculptor’s death at age 34 in 1970 turned every scrap from her hand, including these nineteen macabre selfportraits—brought together in a museum exhibition for the very first time—into an object of fascination.
thru January 8, 2012
Brooklyn Museum
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
