CLOSING SOON [75]

Presenting a group of artists working in film, drawing, sound, collage, and painting whose works open up portals to alternate universes, existing somewhere between reality, myth, fantasy, and the post-apocalypse.   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

This exhibition presents a group of works by Emilio Sanchez from The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, together with related archival material and a special interpretive project by Bronx-based artist Laura Napier. All the works depict commercial buildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With a colorful palette and rigorous architectural design, these works depict the bodegas an...   [more]

Inkternal showcases the recent work of New York City based artists Sky Pape and Kari Lindstrom. Working within the historical context of sumi ink brush painting, the artists’ practices reflect clarity, simplicity, and contemplation. The resulting abstract images speak to our internal and external nature. Pape moves the material in new directions, and Lindstrom experiments by drawing with innova...   [more]

Opening: May 19th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Rania Stephan (Lebanese, b. 1960) has been working with film for the last two decades. Stephan's body of work may at first appear perplexingly heterogeneous—ranging from video art to raw documentary—yet its underlying coherence stems from her country of origin, Lebanon, which stands at a crossroads of cultures and influences, East and West, and remains a place of both exile and return. Stephan fo...   [more]

Frances Stark (American, b. 1967) is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer whose work explores image-making and the written word. Known for her works on paper that often reference the acts of drawing and writing, Stark also makes videos, sculptures, and live performances that are suffused with self-doubt, speculation, and vulnerability. She regularly draws from popular culture, literature, and he...   [more]

This May, the New Museum will present an exhibition of works by British artist Tacita Dean—the most substantial presentation of the artist’s work in New York to date. The presentation focuses on a group of recent pieces that capture five important American artists and thinkers of the last fifty years and features Merce Cunningham, Leo Steinberg, Julie Mehretu, Claes Oldenburg, and Cy Twombly. Th...   [more]

Opening: May 6th, 2012   12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This May, the New Museum will present the first large-scale, American museum exhibition of the artist Klara Lidén, featuring a selection of works in the Museum’s second floor gallery. Lidén’s exhibition at the New Museum is part of a series of focus shows that began last May with presentations by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Gustav Metzger. In her practice, Lidén regularly mines the anxie...   [more]

Opening: May 6th, 2012   12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

On view in the New Museum Theater; screenings every half hour This latest presentation in the New Museum's ‘Stowaways’ series marks the New York premiere of Dani Gal’s Nacht und Nebel (2011). Gal’s works often reveal overlooked historical facts and question the ways in which meaning and information are typically conveyed in documentary film. Nacht und Nebel was originally commissioned f...   [more]

Stanya Kahn’s videos offer glimpses into alternate worlds populated by bizarre characters, mummified animals, natural forces, and primal impulses. Happy Song for You (2011), made with legendary artist Llyn Foulkes, demonstrates Kahn’s unique approach to storytelling in which humor and absurdity function as central forces. Featuring an original song written and performed by Foulkes, the video i...   [more]

Opening: May 4th, 2012   12:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Looking at these five watercolors you are enjoying an experience similar to that of John James Audubon’s (1785–1851) original subscribers to The Birds of America (1827-38). The watercolors are rotated on a quarterly basis to limit the potential damage caused by their exposure, ensuring that these national treasures are available to future generations. The double-elephant-size The Birds of Ameri...   [more]

Opening: April 11th, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Ken Weathersby’s exhibition, Strange Fit, presents abstract paintings that shuffle optical and physical elements, playing the visual against the tactile. In each painting there is an unraveling of expectations as paint, linen, and wood deviate from their usual roles. Grids of bright color on the painted fronts of the canvases create retinal effects like moiré patterns, and the suggestion of vi...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

In Action for the Delaware William Lamson creates the illusion that he is standing on the surface of the river, calmly floating downstream. The camera pulls back, however, and reveals his initial struggle against the strong current of cold water to hoist himself atop the flotation structure he has devised. It is a difficult negotiation to mount the structure, find his balance, and adjust his...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present. Highlights include René Lalique's "Swan" necklace of opals and amethysts, a newly acquired chair by Henry Van de Velde, a playfully brilliant room divider by Ettore Sottsass, and a chandelier by the Dutch designer Joris Laarman. Also presented are gl...   [more]

Opening: March 5th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Sunroom Project Space | May 19—July 1, 2012 To create this highly personal and contemplative sculptural installation, Annie Varnot collected unsellable eggs from a poultry farmer that she befriended in Nova Scotia during an artist residency. She then washed and hollowed the dirty or irregularly shaped eggs and set them in plaster, creating ambiguous forms with odd protrusions that seem myster...   [more]

Gallery 532 Thomas Jaeckel is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Kasia Domanska. This will be her first solo exhibition in New York „I look out on a summer’s day, a beach where we can daydream freely, where we look at the sky and we notice more than we do in everyday life. Everything seems easy, light and pleasant. We contemplate..“ – Kasia Domanska The Artists’ works speak of...   [more]

Opening: June 7th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Stories the City Tells Itself: The Video Art and Photography of Neil Goldberg is the first-ever exhibition of contemporary video art at the Museum of the City of New York. The exhibition presents nine video artworks and three photographic projects that capture the unexpected power and resonance of everyday moments in New York City. Goldberg stitches together images of people emerging from subway station...   [more]