Before they go...

...scroll down to previous posts and check out what's leaving soon. Eija-Liisa Ahtila: The Wind at the MoMA , Dan Flavin at Paula Cooper, Cezanne to Picasso at the Met to name a few.

Photography...or not.

How drawing, painting and sculpture intersects with photography galleries. New York Times.

Ted Mineo

Read Meredith Kahn Rollins' article The Debutante's Ball in the New York Times.

See Mineo's work here.

Polke, Yass, Ahtila and more...

Check here for New York Times reviews of Polke/Bernstein/Amber (at Michael Werner Gallery, 4 East 77th Street, Manhattan, Through Jan. 13) , Catherine Yass (at Galerie LeLong 528 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through Dec. 9) and Looking Back: The White Columns Annual (at White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, West Village, Through Dec. 20).

Also read Times reviews of Eija-Liisa Ahtila -- The Wind (at the Museum of Modern, Art 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan, Through Feb. 5) , Paul McCarthy -- Between Beauty and the Beast (at Nyehaus 15 Gramercy Park South, Manhattan, Through Dec. 30) , and Fred W. McDarrah -- Artists and Writers of the 60s and 70s (at Steven Kasher Gallery 521 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Through Jan. 6) .

Africa Comics

Africa Comics is a show running at the Studio Museum in Harlem through March 18th.

You can read the New York Times review here or here.

Food Chain

The New York Times magazine has a series about the Frieze Art Fair which is broken down into four sections: The Dealer, The Artists, The Curator, and The Collector.

The Dealer: Andrew Wirth of Hauser & Wirth.

The Artists: Jake and Dinos Chapman.

The Curator: Nancy Spector, curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York

The Collector: Mera Rubell.

Erik Sanko

Erik Sanko's The Fortune Teller has been extended through December 22nd at the HERE Theater. Show times are Thursday through Tuesday at 8:30pm, with a 4pm matinee every Saturday and Sunday.

The New York Times describes it as "A morality fable for grown-ups, evoking the familiar idioms of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton in a style you might term Victorian ghastly... the set, a regular wunderkammer, keeps opening up to reveal new sets and images, little Victorian dioramas... macabre and engaging."

"Mr. Sanko's figures are the grim spawn of Edward Gorey and David Lynch, with papier-mache faces more grizzled and world-weary than those of most character actors. 'Very few puppet theaters take advantage of their creepy factor,' Mr. Sanko said... The set underscores why The Fortune Teller is an anomaly in the sphere of marionette theater, or any theater: a level of intricacy most commonly seen in fine art."

You can read the whole article here.