Sculpture Center

Three shows at the Sculpture Center, all thru 11/25

Jeppe Hein: Illusion

New In Practice Projects: new works by Nina Lola Bachhuber, Richard Bottwin, Edward Kihn, Paul & Wilkin, Cesare Pietroiusti, Willoughby Sharp, Nolan Simon, Elisabeth Smolarz, Mary Ellen Strom & Ann Carlson

Scott Lyall: the little contemporaries

The Drawing Center

Starting September 14th and running thru October 18th, The Drawing Center presents Non-Declaritive Art, featuring the work of thirteen emerging artists selected from the Viewing Program.

The artists in Non-Declarative Art intelligently explore ambiguity, the minimization of information, and the rejection of overt meaning. Participating artists include: Susan Goethel Campbell, Gianna Commito, Michael Diaz, Jeff Feld, Sabine Finkenauer, Prajakti Jayavant, Steven Lowery, Howard Rosenthal, Jay Sheldon, Jered Sprecher, John Tallman, Sally Tittmann, and Gregor Wright.

Running at the same time is Jon Kessler: Works on Paper , the artist’s first exhibition of drawing-based work.

Ceramics

Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramics is at the Gladstone Gallery thru October 13th. Roberta Smith has a review.

Artists in the exhibition include Elizabeth Peyton, Thomas Schütte, Anish Kapoor, Ricky Swallow and Sarah Lucas.

Zhang Huan

Zhang Huan: Altered States is on view at the Asia Society thru January 2008.
Holland Carter has a review.

Dana Schutz

A New York Times review from Spring about Dana Schutz's show at Zach Feuer.

Profile Banks Violette

Read this New York Magazine profile of Banks Violette. He had a collaborative exhibition at both the Team and Galdstone galleries this summer. The New york Times reviewed it here.

Quick 2

Also at the MoMA (thru September 24th ) is Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years.

At the website you can view the online exhibition , Listen to the audio tour: (Full Program (Flash 7 or higher plug-in required), Download audio and video clips, and read the New York Times article about the installation.

New York Magazine has an article about Serra here and a review here. The New Yorker has one too.

Quick

...it ends on the 17th, but the MoMA's show "What is Painting?" features a 50 artist 50 work exhibition presenting a selection of artworks made since approximately 1965, including a number of recent acquisitions and many works displayed for the first time since the Museum's reopening.

New York Magazine's Jerry Saltz reviews the show in "Back from the Brink"

You can read the Village Voice review here.

Back at it

...School's back in session and so is Current. New posts will go up through out the day, and we'll be running through the entire school year. For those of you new to Current, we're the blog version of Jody Pinto's print current events folder that is located in the Library at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. With this blog, you can check out all of Jody's recommendations for shows in the New York area, as well as links to galleries and articles of interest. We update every couple of weeks. We hope its helpful for you. Enjoy.