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This exhibition, covering the period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements—with a special emphasis on the medium's relation to Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Constructivism, New Objectivity, Conceptual, and Post-Conceptual art—and in the development of contemporary artistic practices. The shaping of what came to be known a...   [more]

Opening: April 18th, 2012   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s mixed-media constructions, collages, and installations are marked by a trashy opulence concocted from household items and dollar stores. Mimicking Byzantine decoration with cellophane, aluminum foil, tinsel and glitter, Lanigan-Schmidt (American, b. 1948) pioneered a maximalist aesthetic in the late 1960s that explored gay sexuality, class struggle, and religion. Mingling hi...   [more]

Opening: November 18th, 2012   12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Lisa Cooley is pleased to present Air de Pied-à-terre, an exhibition curated by Lisa Cooley and Alan Reid. Air de Pied-à-terre is a collection of works that address notions of the interpretive space between object and viewer, theatrically situated in a hypothetical pied-à-terre. As a pied-à-terre suggests transience, the objects collected here provide evidence of a range of thought in motion,...   [more]

Opening: January 13th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY invites you to an exhibition of new work by New York artist RAVEN SCHLOSSBERG, whose seamlessly layered dreamscapes of printed, drawn and superimposed imagery explore themes of cultural exchange, travel and the obsessive nature of collecting.RAVEN SCHLOSSBERG’s recent series of mixed-media collages function as landscapes - natural spaces composed from familiar elements. But they...   [more]

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present Louis Stettner: The Masterpieces, Celebrating 90 Years on view from Thursday, January 31st to Saturday, March 9th 2013. The first retrospective of the artist's work to be presented in New York in years, The Masterpieces will feature all original prints of many of Stettner's most iconic images.90 years after his birth to Austro-Hungarian parents in Brookly...   [more]

Central to Doug Aitken's "100 YRS" exhibition is a new "Sonic Fountain," in which water drips from 5 rods suspended from the ceiling, falling into a concrete crater dug out of the gallery floor. The flow of water itself is controlled so as to create specific rhythmic patterns that will morph, collapse and overlap in shifting combinations of speed and volume, lending the physical phenomenon the va...   [more]

Meriç Algün Ringborg’s New Commissions project, The Library of Unborrowed Books, opens at Art in General from 26 January – 23 March 2013, at the sixth floor galleries, 79 Walker Street, NY. The project, presenting hundreds of books that have never been borrowed from the Center for Fiction’s library, calls into question what subjects in any contemporary moment have ‘currency’ or desirability,...   [more]

Opening: January 26th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Mary Ryan Gallery is pleased to present "From Provincetown to Now: 100 Years of Women in Prints." The gallery has a history of championing prints by women artists and is responsible for bringing many to the forefront over the past 30 years. The work on view is an excellent selection of prints from varied movements throughout the last century that focus on dynamic themes of labor, identity, materialism, fe...   [more]

Opening: January 26th   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM