Glitter and Doom

Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s runs through February 19, 2007 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

New York Magazine takes a look.

Update: here's Roberta Smith's New York Times review as well.

Exhibitions

Eleanore Mikus: From Shell to Skin at the Drawing Center thru February 10th.
drawings and paintings, featuring several of Mikus’ “Tablets” from the early 1960s, as well as slightly later folded paper works


Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting at the Frick Collection through December 31st.


Philip Guston: Drawings at McKee Gallery through December 22nd



Sarah Morris' temporary installation at Lever House through December 3rd.

Ellsworth Kelly: New Paintings and Drawings on a Bus—Sketchbook 23, 1954 at Matthew Marks through January 27th.

Sigmar Polke at Michael Werner through January 13th.



Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater through December 16th.

Puppets

Matthew Gurewitsch's New York Times article about puppets used in theatrical productions by the likes of Julie Taymor and Anthony Minghella, including a 12 foot tall witch in Basil Twist's production of "Hansel and Gretel."

Kiki Smith

The New York Times' Holland Carter has a review of Kiki Smith's "midcareer retrospective" at the Whitney Museum of American Art (thru 2/11)

John Currin at Gagosian

John Currin has a show at the Gagosian Gallery
thru December 22nd

He discusses his influences in New York Magazine.

Flashart has an interview with him from last year here.

New York Times

A trio of article from the New York Times

Velázquez, Without Bells or Whistles (by Michael Kimmelman) about "Velázquez” (thru 1/21) at the National Gallery in London

Old Masters Say, Can We Talk? (by Roberta Smith) about “Masterpieces of European Painting From the Cleveland Museum of Art” at the Frick Collection thru 1/28.

and

Still Crazy, but That Was the Concept by Holland Cotter about “Wrestle” (thru) 5/27) at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Execution

Mark Stevens writes about Manet's Execution of Maximilian in New York Magazine.

"Between 1867 and 1869, Edouard Manet completed a series of compositions depicting the execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Manet and the Execution of Maximilian unites these five works for the first time in the United States and features selected additional works that illuminate the fascinating development of this series. "

The series is on display at the MoMA thru 1/29.

Creativetime

From Creativetime and The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Astrovision Screen by Panasonic project comes You Should be the Next Astronaut.

...Astronaut is the first in a series of short films by Charles de Meaux that revisits "the principal cinema genres (here referencing science fiction) and plays with the conventional movie preview’s role as a prophecy, a promissory note, and a stoker of audience expectation. Working with the notion that trailers are more ubiquitous than feature-length films, de Meaux’s series, created in collaboration with artist and curator Agnieszka Kurant, engages the current condition of cultural consumption, in which products are increasingly consumed before they are encountered.This is a project of Anna Sanders Films that de Meaux founded with Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno.

Galleries

Carlos Garaicoa at Lombard-Freid Projects thru 11/22
Large-scale black-and-white photographs overlaid by thread drawings, as well as new video installations.

Ray Johnson at Feigen Contemporary thru 12/23
Collages referencing the artists peers and friends including a group of works never shown before.

Rene Magritte at Van De Weghe Fine Art thru 11/12
Paintings from the late twenties through the mid-sixties.

Jannis Kounellis at Cheim & Read thru 1/6
Installations incorporating personal artifacts such as shoes, overcoats, and beds.

Steve Mumford at Postmasters Gallery thru 12/2
Paintings based on the artist's experiences and impressions from his eleven months in Iraq.

Laurel Nakadate at Danziger Projects thru 11/25
For her second solo at the gallery, this young artist known for her cynical videos, expands into installation work.

Museums

New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori at The Metropolitan Museum of Art thru 12/10
The Met marks the anniversary of Katrina with twenty riveting, large-scale color photographs of the damage by an artist who lived in New Orleans as a teenager.

Projects 83 at The Museum of Modern Art thru 11/27
Polish artist Monika Sosnowska's architectural installations.

International and National Projects at PS1 Contemporary Art Center thru 1/8
Video, film, paintings, and installations by six artists including Charles Atlas, Amy Granat, Ed McGowin, and Hope Sandrow.


Harlem Postcards at the Studio Museum of Harlem thru 12/3
Contemporary drawings depicting the neighborhood of Harlem. Works by James Casebere, Dominic McGill, Jessica Rankin, and Katy Schimert.

Empathy

Video still from Jesper Just, The Lonely Villa, 2004, 16mm film transferred to video.

Empathetic runs at the Temple Gallery in Old City Philadelphia from November 4, 2006 thru February 17, 2007. "Ten artists [ ] explore themes of communication, empathy and understanding, [ ] featur[ing] drawings, installations, performances, videos and sound works".
From the website

Artists include:
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, CarianaCarianne, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Jesper Just, Pedro Lasch, Pia Lindman, Kalup Linzy, and Rachel Owens.

Ceramics

Japan Society Gallery is currently open with the exhibition Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, on view through January 21, 2007.





Mishima Kimiyo, Pineapple Box – s, 1986. Silk-screened stoneware, 10 x 11 x 8 in. (25.4 x 27.9 x 20.3 cm). Photo by Richard P. Goodbody.

Read it before it goes away Part 2...Chelsea

Randy Kenedy writes a piece called Chelsea: The Art and Commerce of One Hot Block for the New York Times. For more info on the neighborhood containing over 300 art galleries, go here.

Read it before it goes away....Kiki Smith

Michael Kimmelman writes about Kiki Smith in a
New York Times Magazine piece from November 5th.

John Marin

John Marin: The Edage of Abstraction at
Meredith Ward Fine Art thru 12/16
A NY Times review by Martha Schwendener can be read here.

Museums

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now at the Asia Society and Museum
thru 12/10
Works in various media by sixteen Asian American artists.




Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
thru 1/28
Major works highlighting Brazil's explosive countercultural movement.

Ecotopia at the International Center of Photography thru 1/7
In this multimedia exhibit, we face up to our cold war against nature--and our deep unease about its potential result.

Masters of American Comics at The Jewish Museum thru 1/28
Comic books and strips from R. Crumb to Chris Ware, in a lively two-venue show. Includes essays from Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers.



Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings
at The Museum of Modern Art thru 1/15
Some 50 paintings and drawings chart Marden's shift from the early monochrome panels to the meandering, calligraphic marks of his more recent canvases.

Queens International 2006: Everything All at Once at the Queens Museum of Art thru 1/14
This year's biennial presents the works of fifty-two Queens-based artists in a variety of mediums.

Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art thru 1/7

Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75
at the Whitney Museum of American Art thru 12/3.

Galleries

Tavares Strachan at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
thru 11/11
Four major works including a large sculpture reconstructing the artery system of the human body in blown glass.


Dan Flavin at Paula Cooper at thru 12/22
Early fluorescent lights and works on paper including a work from the Diagonal of May 25, 1963 series.

Christian Jankowski at The Kitchen thru 12/9
His first show here since a popular solo at Maccarone in 2004.


Robert Longo at Metro Pictures thru 12/9
New charcoal drawings of planets and stars.

Jennifer Steinkamp at Lehmann Maupin thru 11/25
Two large-scale installations exploring space and motion through illusionistic environments created by new-media technology.

Gary Webb at Bortolami Dayan thru 11/22
Sculptural works incorporating processed and organic materials, sound elements, and twentieth-century music, art and design references.

Catherine Yass at Galerie LeLong thru 12/9
Film projections on two facing walls placing the viewer at Three Gorges Dam inside the center of Chinas Yangtze River.


Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater thru 12/16
New works on canvas and paper, inspired by the desert landscape of New Mexico. More here.