PS1

Now at PS1

Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker thru 4/29

Not For Sale thru 4/30

Silicone Valley thru 4/30

International and National Projects: Joe Deutch, Stefan Eins, McKendree Key, Mark Lewis, David Maljkovic, Senam Okudzeto thru 4/30

Katrín Sigurdardóttir: High Plane V thru 5/7

Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989-2006 thru 5/7

Vik Muniz: Reflex thru 5/7

Whitney

Now at the Whitney

Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar thru June 24, 2007
For this project, artist Taryn Simon (b. 1975) assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiosities, compiling an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through careful documentation of diverse subjects from across the realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion.


Lorna Simpson thru May 6, 2007
One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson is well known for her photographic and film works, which often examine racial and gender identity. In works such as Call Waiting (1997), she depicts people of color engaging in intimate yet incomplete conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to plumb the mysteries of identity and desire. Organized by the American Federation of Arts, this comprehensive first mid-career survey will feature her image and text works, serigraphs on felt, film installations, and a selection of recent work.


Gordon Matta-Clark thru June 3, 2007

During the brief but highly productive ten years that he worked as an artist, and even more so since his death, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has exerted a powerful influence on artists and architects who know his work. This retrospective brings together the breadth of his practice to reveal the unique beauty and radical nature of his punnings, plans, performances, and interventions evident in the many media in which he worked: the sculptural objects (most notably from building cuts), drawings, films, photographs, notebooks, and documentary material.

Click here to listen to a podcast about Gordon Matta-Clark and his work.


Terence Koh thru May 27, 2007
For his first solo museum show in the United States, Terence Koh is creating a new installation for the Whitney's Lobby Gallery. In Koh's immersive, typically monochromatic environments -- in which minimalist and baroque aspects of his sensibility vie for dominance -- a seemingly unknown ritual is about to take place, where a sense of loss simultaneously suggests regeneration. From drifting powder silencing rooms, and constellations of cryptically linked objects that move from literally disjunctive realms (upstairs/downstairs, inside/outside, dark/light) as well as more conceptual ones, to pristine, perfectly crafted containers that become coffins for shattered glass and mirror, the glitter of black beads, burnt objects, residing within -- Koh's gestures evoke isolation and secrecy, but also protection and ecstasy.

CCCP

CCCPFRÈDÈRIC CHAUBIN (Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed)

On view April 24 - May 26 at Storefront for Art and Architecture

From the website--"Over the past five years, during the course of his travels in the former Soviet Union, French photographer Frederic Chaubin has documented an extensive collection of startling architectural artifacts born during the last two decades of the Cold War. Architects in the peripheral regions of the Eastern Bloc countries, working on governmental commissions during the ‘70s and ‘80s, enjoyed a surprising degree of creative freedom. Operating in a cultural context hermetically sealed from the influence of their Western counterparts, they drew inspiration from sources ranging from expressionism, science fiction, early European modernism and the Russian Suprematist legacy to produce an idiosyncratic, flamboyant and often imaginative architectural ménage. Unexpected in their contexts, these monumental buildings stand in stark contrast to the stereotypical understanding of late Soviet architecture in which monotonously repetitive urban landscapes were punctuated by vapid exercises in architectural propaganda.
The subjects of Chaubin’s photographs, scattered throughout Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, were all constructed during the last two decades of the Soviet era. Very few of their designers achieved anything more than local recognition, and until now these buildings have never been collectively documented or exhibited. The authors of many works remain unknown, and some have been destroyed since Chaubin’s photographs were taken. Concieved and executed during a moment of historical transition, they constitute one of the most surprising and least known legacies of the former USSR.
As well as presenting the architecture itself, CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed traces the intellectual and political undercurrents that act as a backdrop, and at times inspiration, for the work of these Soviet architects. The exhibition, a compendium of film stills, drawings, magazine articles and historical timelines, maps out the complex genealogy of this overlooked but compelling chapter in the history of 20th century design." --Frédéric Chaubin in Paris, France. He is editor in chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K.

Philosophy of Time Travel

The New York Times reviews "Philosophy of Time Travel", on display at The Studio Museum in Harlem thru July 1st.

A team of five artists is exploring this idea with a large-scale installation, Philosophy of Time Travel, opening April 11, 2007, at The Studio Museum in Harlem. The installation evokes the work of modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), forcefully and dynamically pushing his massive 1938 work, Endless Column, through the Studio Museum’s gallery space. The result is a fictional world in which history comes to life, crashes through the exhibition space, and traverses through histories of art and museums.

Sol LeWitt 1928-2007

The New York Times Obituary for Sol LeWitt can be found in a "bootlegged" form here.

Some of his work is on display now thru September 10th.

1 2 3: All Three Part Variations on Three Different Cubes, 1967/2003

and Sol LeWitt Drawing Series at Dia Beacon.

You can read a review here.

Picasso Braque Movies

When Picasso and Braque Went to the Movies By Randy Kennedy




"IT was Picasso doing the noninterview interview, decades before Warhol came along to elevate it to an art form. In 1911 a writer for Paris-Journal was asking Picasso about the radically new kind of painting people were calling Cubism, the lightning bolt that had shot forth from his studio and that of his friend Georges Braque. Picasso claimed never to have heard of such a thing. “Il n’y a pas de Cubisme,” he said blithely, and then excused himself to go feed his pet monkey.

In part because its creators said so little about it during their lifetime, guarding it like a kind of state secret, Cubism has generated a library’s worth of scholarship, probably more than any other artistic innovation in the last century. The general picture that has emerged is one of Cubism bubbling up out of a thick Parisian stew of symbolist poetry, Cézanne, cafe society, African masks, absinthe and a fascination with all things mechanical and modern, mostly airplanes and automatons.



But while almost every aspect of these two artists’ live has been scrutinized — their friends, lovers, favorite drugs, hangouts, hat sizes and nicknames (Picasso called Braque Wilbourg, after Wilbur Wright) — one mutual fascination has been largely overlooked: Both men were crazy about the movies.



They were also coming of age artistically in the city of the Lumière brothers, where the modern moviegoing experience had just been born, starting in cafes and cabarets and then moving into theaters, packed with people still in disbelief as they watched a two-dimensional picture plane leap to life. “The cinema was not simply in its earliest infancy,” wrote the critic André Salmon, one of Picasso’s friends and fellow moviegoers. “It was wailing.”



For more than 20 years the New York art dealer Arne Glimcher had carried around a theory, more gut feeling than scholarly conjecture, that Picasso and Braque had been seduced by that siren song of the early cinema, and that Cubism, with its fractured surfaces and multiple perspectives, owed much more to the movies than anyone had noticed.



Five years ago Mr. Glimcher finally decided to do something about his hunch." (more here).

The Jewish Museum

Dateline Israel : New Photography and Video Art at the Jewish Museum thru 8/5.

The New York Times reviews it here.

ICP

Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs 1932-1946

at the International Center for Photography

Dia: Beacon

Agnes Martin: Homage to [a] Life: Paintings 1990-2004 at Dia: Beacon thru 11/26.

Bronx Museum

Here and Elsewhere: Artist in the Marketplace 27th Annual Exhibition
at the Bronx Museum thru 8/19

Bami Adedoyin • Becca Albee • Fanny Allié • Jesse Alpern • Dorthe Alstrup • Gabriela Alva Cal y MayorJill Auckenthaler • Gail Biederman • Hector Canonge • Christine Catsifas • Jillian ConradVince Contarino • Jon Cuyson • Caroline Falby • Tracey Goodman • Patrick Grenier • Emily HallJoseph Hart • Ketta Ioannidou • Elaine Kaufmann • Jayson Keeling • Taeseong Kim • Joseph MaidaAmanda C. Mathis • Amanda Matles • Megan Michalak • Hiroyuki Nakamura • Alison OwenChihcheng Peng • David Politzer • Emily Puthoff • Jenna Ransom • Rashanna Rashied-WalkerJason Reppert • Joseph Eli Tekippe • Will Walker

Here and Elsewhere features a range of work by 36 artists from throughout the [New York] metropolitan area, all of whom have participated in the most recent incarnation of Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country. The title alludes to both the global reach of the program, now in its 27th year, and to the fluidity of art practices in today’s global life.

Audio Tour

Hugo Boss 2006

The Hugo Boss Prize 2006 Tacita Dean

at the Guggenheim thru 6/6.

Drawing Center

Gego, Between Transparency and the Invisible and

William Anastasi: Raw at the Drawing Center thru 7/21

Shows

Gordon Matta Clark and Rirkrit Tiravanija

at David Zwirner thru 5/21

Mel Chin at Frederieke Taylor thru 5/19

Walter De Maria at Gagosian thru 5/5

Liliana Porter at Hosfelt thru 5/12

Paul Thek at Alexander and Bonin thru 5/12

Through the 28th

Teresita Fernandez at Lehman Maupin

"Pure" (Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Duchamp, Iran do Espírito Santo, Dan Flavin, Adam Fuss, Liam Gillick, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Shirazeh Houshiary, Bethan Huws, Callum Innes, Joseph Kosuth, Wolfgang Laib, Luisa Lambri, Sherri Levine, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Joseph Marioni, Piero Manzoni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rita McBride, Anthony McCall, Robert Ryman, Julião Sarmento, Kiki Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Frank Thiel, Gavin Turk, Rachel Whiteread, Jeff Zimmerman) at Sean Kelly

Roleplay: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980 at Galerie Lelong



Pieree Bismuth at Mary Boone


Mary Lucier at Lennon Weinberg

James Turrell at PaceWildenstein

Amy Cutler at Tonkonow



Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater