Zak Smith’s latest solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser gallery opens this Friday, October 10. From the press release:
Midnight in the Empire features compulsively dense abstract works, a grab bag of drawings and paintings on different subjects, as well as the latest installments of “Girls In The Naked Girl Business”–Smith’s ongoing series of portraits of […]
Through June 28, Gagosian Gallery is displaying 12 Roy Lichtenstein paintings featuring female subjects. Titled “Roy Lichtenstein: Girls,” the exhibit is another testament to Lichtenstein’s continuing relevance and ability to surprise the most jaded viewer of Pop Art. A retrospective at SFMoMA in 2005 transformed me from a passive admirer to a fervent, thrilled […]
The New York Times clued me in to an exhibit at the Jewish Museum that sounds fantastic. As someone who enjoyed a lot of William Steig’s artwork and somewhat macabre storytelling as a kid, I was intrigued to learn that he began his very successful career as a children’s author at the age of 60. […]
From January 17-February 16, Cueto Project presents the work of Brooklyn-based artist Fritz Welch.
Welch’s solo show, entitled “Under Your Wet Blanket,”:
deals with two ongoing conceptual themes for the artist: Revolution Blues and Vampire Blues. The former refers to a fundamental interest in activist occupation of space and direct political action. The latter is concerned with […]
Kara Walker’s traveling retrospective is on view at the Whitney through February 3, 2008.
Titled “My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppresor, My Love,” this comprehensive show should interest those with a passing interest in her work as well as longtime followers of her bracing, unapologetic silhouettes that tackle race and America’s history head-on.
Not yet 40 years […]
Opening this weekend in the Lever House (Park Avenue and 54th Street) lobby is Damien Hirst’s latest, and quite ambitious, piece titled School: The Archaeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity, and the Search for Knowledge. The $10 million installation was purchased by the owner of Lever House, Aby Rosen, (who also owns the Seagram Building […]
The LE Gallery will present new works by Nicholas Di Genova in a show titled Birds Are Terrifying Creatures, which opens tomorrow — Friday, September 7th, 2007 — in Toronto.
Di Genova’s style is illustrative, obsessive, fantastical, and natural all at once. His first set of limited edition prints (30 sets of the 6 prints […]
You should already know about Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years, the massive retrospective at the MoMA that opened June 3rd. Anyone and everyone has been nattering about it, but as the buzz subsides, what you have left is the cold, contemplative grandeur imposed on you by one of the last living and compelling late Modernists.
You […]
Mr., one of my favourite artists from Takashi Murakami’s KaiKai KiKi Co., Ltd. has his first New York solo exhibition. From the press release in Lehmann Maupin’s current exhibition section:
Lehmann Maupin Gallery will present the first New York solo exhibition of the artist Mr., whose work typically examines Otaku culture in Japan with cartoonish, anime-like […]
