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9 Scripts from a Nation at War (2007), a 10-channel video installation recently acquired by MoMA, marks the first work for which artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne have collaborated. The work responds to knowledge production and communication in the context of the Iraq war since the initial invasion by U.S. military forces in March 2003. The 10 videos co...   [more]

Opening: January 25th, 2012   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

THE ART OF WAR: EXHIBITION Featuring over 200 works on paper, the event marks the first time an entire graphic novel has been exhibited at a contemporary art institution. "This installation transforms the book into a new, immersive experience that will reinvent the way people interact with graphic novels,” states White Box founder and artistic director, Juan Puntes. The graphic novel adapts...   [more]

Opening: July 31st, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

David Zwirner is pleased to present People Who Work Here, an exhibition in the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space. Comprising, as its title suggests, a group of artists who work at the gallery, the show is complementary to David Zwirner’s main program, which features forty internationally acclaimed artists.Curated by Brooklyn-based Rawson Projects, whose co-directors James Morrill and Chris Ra...   [more]

Opening: July 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

DODGEgallery is pleased to present our summer group exhibition, Size Matters: Rebecca Chamberlain, Ted Gahl, Cassie Raihl, Matthew Rich and Michael Zelehoski.Size Matters is an exhibition with artists who regularly incorporate scale shifts into their practice without changing their material or process. Not many artists adeptly and successfully transition between dramatically different sizes. Whether th...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

DODGEgallery is pleased to present The Way of Things, an exhibition of new work by Jane Fox Hipple. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.Through both physical and figurative layers, Hipple approaches her paintings as a foil for ideas of totality, integration and completion. As no single work can illuminate all that Hipple wishes for her viewer, she creates entire exhibitions th...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

2012 MFA National Competition Reception: Thursday, July 19th 5-8pm FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present the 2012 MFA NATIONAL COMPETITION, the second in a series of annual exhibitions open exclusively to MFA students throughout the United States. Juried by John Yau, art critic, poet and professor at Rutgers University, the exhibition features paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media an...   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This June, Friedman Benda will open a survey of Ettore Sottsass’ works from 1992 to 2007. It will be the sixth exhibition by the gallery of his work and a rare look at the final stretch of his celebrated career, presenting ceramic and glass objects, and wooden, metal, and acrylic cabinets. The last fifteen years were a period of heightened craftsmanship for Sottsass, and they offer a gateway to t...   [more]

Jeff Bailey gallery is pleased to present, Up Do, a group exhibition of sculpture and painting, curated by Katia Rosenthal and featuring the work of Stacy Fisher, Joanne Greenbaum, Ann Kelly, Sarah Mattes, Nathlie Provosty, Alyse Ronayne and Tracy Thomason. As imperative phrases, Up! and Do! are action-oriented, and suggest movement or performance. When combined, the words characterize an elaborate way...   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Lehmann Maupin Gallery is pleased to present Friends with Benefits, a group exhibition on view 28 June - 10 August at 201 Chyrstie Street. Extending the gallery space to local emerging talent for our summer show, we turned to Tony Oursler, Angel Otero, Tim Rollins, Mickalene Thomas, and Nari Ward to reach out to New York artists whose work they wish to encourage. The show manifests the gallery co...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to present Cut, Drawn, Painted, an exhibition of works on paper by the artists Frank Badur, Jaq Belcher, Libby Black, Adam Fowler, Rainer Gross, Tad Mike, Barbara Takenaga, Winston Roeth and Nan Swid. Cuts that appear drawn (Jaq Belcher); drawings that are cut (Adam Fowler); and three-dimensional still-lifes delicately constructed out of paper, hot glue and paint (...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to introduce a selection of new works by the Montreal-based artist, Heidi Spector. Her paintings, composed of alykds, resins and oils painted as bands of color on canvas, linen or Russian birch create a surface where candy-like colors pulse and dance together, referencing electronic music and a club dance floor. To paraphrase the artist:“As each color bounces...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The art of the future (which will disappear, like everything else): Imitate nature in an approximate way; imitate in particular nature’s way of creating!” – August Strindberg, 1894 On the 100th anniversary of the death of the famous Swedish artist August Strindberg, “The Nature of Disappearance” takes as the exhibition’s point of departure Strindberg’s radical view of art, which he first...   [more]

The art of the future (which will disappear, like everything else): Imitate nature in an approximate way; imitate in particular nature’s way of creating!” – August Strindberg, 1894 On the 100th anniversary of the death of the famous Swedish artist August Strindberg, “The Nature of Disappearance” takes as the exhibition’s point of departure Strindberg’s radical view of art, which he first...   [more]

Opening: July 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

During the sultry dog days of summer Metro Pictures presents “Dogma,” a group exhibition organized by Swiss Institute director Gianni Jetzer. Bringing together works by a diverse group of contemporary artists, “Dogma” looks at the inextricable relationship tens of thousands of years of domestication have forged between mankind and dogs. The origin of the term dog days can be traced back to t...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

I have become a keeper of rooms; I no longer wander ecstatic among; the gardens. My dreams are the fabric of the walls. I have become so ridged in an attitude of listening that my body resents the movement of selection. From my high window I can see the mountains of Eternity and I can hear the legion song of the Soul and I would lift my own song at last. -Cameron Parsons¹ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased t...   [more]

Opening: June 21st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Summer hours (June 25 through September 2): Mon-Thurs 10-6; Fri 10-4; CLOSED on Saturday & Sundays     The first U.S. exhibition of Chinese artist Wang Guangle features seven new large-scale paintings from his Untitled series, which extends from his Coffin Paint series (begun in 2004). The paintings are made by applying layers of acrylic paint to a canvas in a pre-determined order, resultin...   [more]

Opening: June 21st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM