Recurrency

Holland Cotter reviews Stephen G. Rhodes' - Recurrency at Guild and Greyshkul thru 2/10. Images here.

Artists Space

Two shows at Artists Space

• Elephant Cemetery is a group show featuring the work of Terence Gower and Pedro Reyes, David Maljkovic, Kirsten Pieroth, Pablo Pijnappel, Falke Pisano, Pia Rönicke, Tina Schulz, Jamie Shovlin, Kerry Tribe, and Mario Garcia Torres.
  
  
• Replica of a Lost Original is Leslie Hewitt's first solo exhibition in New York.

Outsiders

Two articles from the New York Times

Roberta Smith on the American Folk Art Museum's exhibition of Mexican artist Martin Ramirez. Here or here. -----More on Ramirez from the NewYorker.

-plus Grace Glueck on the Outsider Art Fair.

Aitken's Sleepwalkers

Sleepwalkers Thru February 12th...

From New York Magazine: "Eight exterior walls of the Museum of Modern Art and the American Folk Art Museum do double duty as screens for the striking new video-art project, Sleepwalkers, which will transform 53rd and 54th Streets into a vast outdoor multiplex. Doug Aitken's five short interconnected films tell the story of one night in the lives of five New Yorkers, played by Donald Sutherland, Tilda Swinton, Cat Power, Seu Jorge, and an unknown, Ryan Donowho, a teenage busker whom the artist met in the subway. Aitken calls the spectacle a “silent film for the 21st century.” Projected every evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for 28 consecutive days, the show is likely to be the most-seen in MoMA’s history." — Sia Michel

Reviews from New York Magazine and the New York Times. More here.

Terence Koh

Is Terence Koh’s Sperm Worth $100,000? discusses the artist's work and reviews his first solo museum show in the United States (at the Whitney thru May 27th). More here, here, and here.

Practicing Lines

The Sculpture Center presents two shows, In Practice Projects Winter '07 (including Alex Arcadia, Fia Backstrom, Amy O’Neill, Garrett Ricciardi, and Karen Yasinsky) and Monica Bonvicini's Never Missing a Line, through March 25th. The New York Times reviews the shows here (or here).

Dine with Pinocchio

39 Lithographs that Jim Dine created for the story of Pinocchio are on display at the New York Public Library through February 18th. More here.

Outdoor Art Downtown

The new Olympic Sculpture Park in downtown Seattle is written about here. More here.

Ceramics in Sewars

Not really, but Japanese artist Jun Kaneko is making giant ceramic heads in a studio six times as large as all the galleries at the Whitney. And that studio is in a Kansas sewar-pipe plant. Giants of the Heartland (or here) tells the story.

Reprints

See You in the (Restored, Reprinted) Funny Papers

"A NIGHTMARE.” Joe Matt (the graphic novelist best known for his absurdly self-centered autobiographical comic “Peepshow”) is speaking of his quest for the perfect collection of Frank King “Gasoline Alley” comic strips, from 1921 to 1960. Mr. Matt, who owns no home, car, computer or cellphone, estimates he has spent upward of $15,000 on his mission since 1994.

His collection forms the bulk of “Walt & Skeezix” (retitled from “Gasoline Alley” for licensing reasons), a decade-long, multivolume reprinting of Mr. King’s complete works published by D&Q (Drawn & Quarterly).

Reprints of "Little Nemo", Fantagraphics’ “Popeye” and “Krazy Kat” series , IDW’s “Complete Dick Tracy" are also discussed.

Spanish Painting

The Guggenheim Museum in New York's show Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time Truth and History runs through March 28th. New York Magazine has a review here, the New York Times here.

China and Contemporay Art

Here's a few NY Times articles related to contemporary Chinese art.

China Celebrates the Year of the Art Market (can also be read here).

In China's new revolution, art greets capitalism (can also be read here).

and a review of The China Institute's show Shu: Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art.