Museum & Cultural Institution Listings
Artists Space
Location: 38 Grenne Street, 3rd Floor
Telephone: 212.226.3970
Admission: Free
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 – 6pm
Exhibition: Nina Position
Description: Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, with works by: Kelly Barrie, Justin Beal, Huma Bhaba, Anya Gallaccio, Wade Guyton, Barkley Hendricks, Roni Horn, Igloolik Isuma Productions, Mary Kelly, Charles Long, Michelle Lopez, Andrew Lord, Robert Mapplethorpe, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Jack Pierson, Michael Queenland, Marco Rios, Amanda Ross-Ho, Julia Scher, Haim Steinbach, Lisa Tan, Josh Tonsfeldt.
Exhibition: Shana Lutker: Combined Faulty Acts
Description: Curated by Jeffrey Uslip
Asia Society and Museum
Location: 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street
Telephone: 212.288.6400,
Email: info@asiasoc.org
Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11 – 6pm, Friday 11 – 9pm
Exhibition: The Shape of Things: Chinese and Japanese Art from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection
January 29 - July 20, 2008
Description: This exhibition of ceramics, metalworks, sculpture, and painting demonstrates that a depth of information can be revealed through the careful observation and study of the form of an object.
Exhibition: First Under Heaven: Korean Ceramics from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection
January 29 - May 4, 2008
Exhibition: Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680 - 1860
February 27 - May 4, 2008
Description: Featuring over 150 exemplary prints, paintings, and illustrated books drawn from major museum collections as well as from the collections of members of the Japanese Art Society of America, this exhibition offers a reappraisal of the art of ukiyo-e from the 1680s through the 1860s.
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Location: 11 East 52nd Street
Telephone: 212.319.5300, 212.644.8660 fax
Email: desk@acfny.org
Website: www.acfny.com
Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 – 6pm Curator Abraham Orden will lead guided tours of Under Pain of Death on Thursday through Saturday at 3pm
Exhibition: Under Pain of Death - Contemporary Reflections about an ongoing Controversy (January 22 - May 12, 2008) Guided Tours by curator Abraham Orden on March 26-28 2008 at 3 pm.
Description: The arrangement of the works in Under Pain of Death is conceived as a series of living interactions with capital punishment, rather than as an inert representation of the subject. To look at each of these works is to descend from the high-minded, disassociating, liberal gaze of the immune individual, and to participate in roles which are fraught with uncertainty.
Brooklyn Museum
Location: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Telephone: (718) 638-5000; TTY: (718) 399-8440
Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 10 – 5pm.; Saturday-Sunday: 11am.-6pm
Exhibition: Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900
March 21-June 15 2008
Robert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor
Exhibition: Goodbye Coney Island
November 28, 2007 - April 6, 2008
Description: An exhibition of more than fifty photographs from the Brooklyn Museum's holdings, Goodbye Coney Island traces the evolution of this fabled part of New York over the past 125 years.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Location: 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10456
Telephone: 718.681.6000
Hours: Thursday-Monday Noon – 6pm, Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Exhibition: Making It Together: Women's Collaborative Art and Community
On view in the South Wing Small Gallery and Lobby
Description: Making It Together guest curatored by Carey Lovelace, explores an important chapter in recent history, a period when women artists, inspired by the Feminist Movement of the late 1970s. The exhibition will coincide with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, which opened at P.S.1 in February 2008.
Exhibition: Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Women Artists
On view in the North Wing
Description: Conceived as a counterpart to Making It Together, The Bronx Museum features Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Women Artists, a special exhibition from its permanent collection of women artists whose works comment on social and political situations.
Exhibition: Teen Council Presents: Jamel Shabazz
On view in the North Wing
Description: The Bronx Museum's Teen Council class of 2007-2008 organizes a small exhibition of photographs by Jamel Shabazz based on the theme of community. During their tenure, the Teen Council class of 07 conducted an interview with Shabazz for the education department's DVD series. The teens worked in collaboration with Shabazz and assistant curator Erin Riley-Lopez to put the exhibition together.
Dia:Beacon
Location: 3 Beekman Street, Beacon NY 11508
Telephone: 845.440.0100
Email: info@diaart.org
Hours: Friday - Monday 11am – 4pm, closed Tues-Thursday
Exhibition: Sol LeWitt Drawing Series
September 16, 2006-September 2008
Description: Seen in combination with other works by the artist at Dia:Beacon, "Drawing Series. . ." illuminates the scope and complexity of the artist's vocabulary.
Exhibition: GEORGE TRAKAS
Description: George Trakas's project for Beacon Point, the 25-arce peninsula on the Hudson River waterfront adjacent to Dia:Beacon, includes a terraced angling deck, a new boardwalk, restored bulkhead, and a naturally preserved south shoreline.
Exhibition: AN-MY LE "Trap Rock"
Description: "Trap Rock," an ongoing series of photographs, surveys a basalt quarry located ten miles up the Hudson from Dia:Beacon. By drawing on both painterly and photographic traditions, she envisions this veteran site in terms that go beyond the specifics of the strictly documentary, in search of what she deems "a larger understanding of history and culture."
The Drawing Center
Location: 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
Telephone: 212.219.2166 tel, 212.966.2976 fax
Email: info@drawingcenter.org
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 6pm
Exhibition: Selections Spring 2008
February 22 - March 27, 2008
Description: Spring Selections 2008 will mark the first exhibition curated with the use of The Drawing Center's newly established online Artist Registry. Selections are the cornerstone of The Drawing Center's exhibition program and a key component of the Viewing Program. Selections Spring 2008 celebrates the 92nd Selections exhibition in the Center's ongoing series that presents new work by underrepresented and emerging artists.
Exhibition 2: Sterling Ruby
February 22 - March 27, 2008
Description: Sterling Ruby's varied practice - incorporating sculpture, video, photography, drawing, collage, and installation - rejects the parameters of specific media or aesthetic definition to investigate notions of repression, control, and transience. This exhibition will present a site-specific project conceived for the Drawing Room.
Dumbo Arts Center
Location: 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn
Telephone: 718.694.0831
Email: gallery@dumboartscenter.org
Website: www.dumboartscenter.org
Hours: Thursday - Monday 10am – 6pm
Exhibition: Fresh Kills
March 15 - April 30, 2008
Description: Fresh Kills, curated by David Kennedy Culter. The recent history of Fresh Kills, the Staten Island landfill that became the resting place for the rubble of the Twin Towers, is the real world parable for a group of artworks that are simultaneously destitute and monumental.
El Museo del Barrio
Location: Heckscher Building, 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th street), New York 10029
Telephone: 212.831.72.72
Fax: 212.831.7927
Email: info@elmuseo.org
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am-5pm, Monday and Tuesday Closed
Exhibition: Arte ± Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000
January 30-June 1, 2008
Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio
Description: Curatored by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, Arte (no es) Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 will survey, for the first time, the vast range of performative actions created over the last four decades by Latinos in the United States as well as artists working in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America.
Fisher Landau Center
Location: 38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, New York NY 11101
Telephone: 718.937.0727
Access: Free
Hours: Thursday - Monday Noon-5pm, Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Exhibition: FIGHTING WORDS
Voices of Dissent: Social, political & environmental statements.
Sunday, February 3rd through Monday, April 14th, 2008.
Description: Nancy Dwyer, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Annette Lemieux, Glenn Ligon, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Lorna Simpson, David Wojnarowicz, and Christopher Wool.
Exhibition: PICTURES IN SERIES
Multiple visions and sequential imagery using traditional and innovative approaches.
February 3rd – April 14th, 2008.
Description: Matthew Barney, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Susan Derges, William Eggleston, Rodney Graham, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Robert Longo, Shirin Neshat, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Lorna Simpson, Yinka Shonibare, and Cy Twombly.
Exhibition: THOMAS NOZKOWSKI: Artwork from 1979-2001.
February 3rd – April 14th, 2008.
Exhibition: PAINTING AND SCULPTURE: Selections from the collection.
The Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection - Select Drawings at the French Embassy
Florence and Daniel Guerlain have agreed to exhibit 140 drawings from their collections at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy during the Armory Show (March 26-30) and beyond.
LOCATION: Cultural Services of the French Embassy, 972 5th avenue New York, NY 10021
DATES: March 26 – May 16, 2008
HOURS: Weekdays from 1 - 5pm (Closed weekends)
WEBSITE: www.frenchculture.org
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Location: 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th street, New York, NY
Telephone: 212.423.3500
Hours: Saturday - Wednesday 10am – 5:45pm, Friday 10am – 7:45pm
Exhibition: Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
February through May 2008
Description: This retrospective is the Guggenheim Museum's first solo exhibition devoted to a Chinese-born artist and is designed as a spectacular site-specific installation within the museum's iconic architecture. It surveys two decades of Cai's production of "gunpowder drawings," made by igniting explosives on paper, and documentation of his outdoor pyrotechnic displays or "explosion events" projected on large video screens. The exhibition also features several of Cai's most ambitious installations and explores his utopian, community-based or "social" projects.
Exhibition: From Berlin to New York: Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim, January 26-May 4, 2008
Description: This permanent collection installation features both acquisitions from Karl Nierendorf's galleries in Berlin and New York and from the gallerist's estate.
International Center of Photography
Location: 1114 Avenue of Americas at 43rd Street, New York, NY
Telephone: 212.857.0000
Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 10am–6pm, Friday 10am–8pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am–6pm, Mondays Closed
Exhibition: The Collections of Barbara Bloom
January 1-May 4, 2008
Description: Photographer, designer, and installation artist Barbara Bloom has built her career out of questioning appearances, exploring the desire for possessions, and commenting on the act of collecting. This retrospective will explore all aspects of her oeuvre, and includes works from past multi-media installations and newly made pieces.
Exhibition 2: Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
January 18–May 4, 2008
Description: Organized by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever will present works by contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink identity, history, memory, and loss.
The Jewish Museum
Location: Fifth at 92nd Street, New York, NY
Telephone: 212.423.3234
Hours: Saturday–Wednesday 11am - 5:45pm, Thursday 11am – 8pm, Closed Friday
Exhibition: Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
March 16, 2008–August 3, 2008
Description: Andy Warhol's ten "Jewish genius" paintings depict renowned luminaries of Jewish culture. Warhol's iconic portraits attest to the lasting achievements and fame of these singular figures.
Exhibition: Oil/Water—Mother/Daughter: Video and Photography by Mor Arkadir
March 9–June 22, 2008
Description: The Jewish Museum presents the documentary film Oil, Water (2005) and the photograph Overlap (2004) by Mor Arkadir, winner of the 2005 Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design, in the Museum's Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center.
Exhibition: Pomegranate: A Video by Ori Gersht
March 9–June 22, 2008
Lever House Art Collection
Location: 390 Park Avenue, Lobby (between 54th and 53rd Streets)
Website: www.leverhouse.com
Exhibition: School: The Archeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity, and the Search for Knowledge by Damien Hirst
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location: 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd street
Telephone: 212.535.7710
Hours: Sunday, Tuesday – Thursday 9:30am – 5:30 pm, Friday and Saturday 9:30am – 9pm, Closed Monday
Exhibition: Tara Donovan
November 20, 2007-April 27, 2008
Modern and Contemporary Art, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, The Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery
Description: Tara Donovan (American, b. 1969) is known for working with commonplace manufactured materials such as tape, Styrofoam cups, or drinking straws to create abstract sculptural installations that often take on a biomorphic feel or resemble topographical landscapes. For a new work conceived specifically for this exhibition, the artist uses Mylar tape to create a wall-mounted installation that encompasses the entire gallery. Through a vast accumulation of webs of metallic loops, laboriously assembled, Donovan transforms the space into a unique phenomenological experience for the viewer.
The Museum of Modern Art
Location:11 West 53rd St, Proceed Directly to Info Desk
Telephone: 212.708.9400,
Email: info@moma.org
Hours: Sat-Monday 10:30am – 5:30pm, Wednesday and Thursday 10:30am – 6pm, Friday 10:30am – 8pm, Closed Tuesday
Exhibition: Jan De Cock
January 23-April 21, 2008, Photography 3rd Floor
Description: For his first museum exhibition in the United States, artist Jan De Cock (Belgian, born 1976) will conceive a floor-to-ceiling installation mixing color and black-and-white photographs with a series of plywood sculptural modules that recall twentieth-century abstraction. Made in response to the particular site in which they are displayed, the pictures will be of specific objects and installation views of MoMA's collection that De Cock has previously photographed from different angles and at times combined with other images culled from the history of art, architecture, and film in an encyclopedic style.
Exhibition 2: Design and the Elastic Mind
February 24-May 12 2008
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
Description: The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale. The exhibition will include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale. The objects range from nanodevices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
Exhibition 3: Color Chart
March 2 – May 12, 2008
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, 6th Floor
Description: Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass-produced and standardized commercial product.
Exhibition: RAW-WAR
October 4, 2007-March 31, 2008
The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, 2nd Floor
Description: This installation presents four artworks—a lithograph by Bruce Nauman, a sculpture by Jenny Holzer, and installations by Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Jonathan Horowitz—that each consider the written word as a means of expression. These works create tension and evoke notions of fragility through both form and content.
Exhibition: Focus: Alexander Calder
September 14, 2007 – April 14, 2008
Noguchi Museum
Location: 32-37 Vernon Boulevard (entrance at 9-01 33rd street), Long Island City
Telephone: 718.204.7088
Hours: Wednesday-Friday 10am – 5pm, Sat and Sun 11am – 6pm, Closed Mon and Tues
Exhibition: Design:Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi
On view through May 25, 2008
Description: Design:Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochifeatures furniture, interior-
and industrial-design objects, and drawings and photographs. Together, these illuminate the two men’s shared interest in Japanese traditions of simplicity, craft, and functionality, and their commitment to combining these with experimental techniques and materials.
PS 1
Location: 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Telephone:718.784.2084,
Email: mail@ps1.org
Hours: Thursday – Monday, Noon-6pm
Exhibition: WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Public Art Fund
Location: Lever House is located on Park Avenue Between 53rd and 54th streets
Telephone: 212.980.4575,
Email: info@publicartfund.org
Admission: Free
Hours: Perceval is on view at 60th St. and Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to Central Park.
Exhibition: Sarah Lucas Perceval
November 11, 2007 – May 1, 2008
Description: The first public installation in North America by British artist Sarah Lucas, Perceval is a large-scale sculpture of a Shire horse pulling a cart overflowing with two oversized marrows, or squash. At once, a homage to and satire of English culture, the subject matter reflects Lucas' predilection for reexamining everyday objects in unusual contexts.
Exhibition: Everyday Eden
November 8, 2007-September 7, 2008, At MetroTech Center in Brooklyn
Description: Public Art Fund is pleased to present a new exhibition of contemporary art at MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn. Everyday Eden features 2 new commissions and 3 recent works by Jedediah Caeser, Tony Feher, Rob Fischer, Paula Hayes, and Nina Katchadourian.
Queens Museum of Art
Location: New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens
Telephone: 718.592.9700
Hours: Wednesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Sat – Sun Noon – 5pm
Exhibition: Tiffany: The Glass
July 2004 – on going
Description: Tiffany: The Glass, an installation of two windows, eleven lamp shades, and more than two hundred examples of sheet glass, explores some of the remarkable patterns, textures, and colors of opalescent glass used by the Tiffany Studios.
Socrates Sculpture Park
Location: 32-01 Vernon Blvd. Long Island City
Telephone: 718.956.1819
Admission: Free
Hours: Open 365 days a year from 10 am to sunset
Description of Museum: Socrates Sculpture Park is an internationally renowned outdoor museum and artist residency program that also serves as a vital New York City park offering a vide variety of free public programs and events
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Location: 144 West 13th Street, New York
Telephone: 212.864.4500
Hours: Wed – Fri 12-6pm, Sat 10am – 6pm, Sun Noon – 6pm
Exhibition :Bits and Bytes: Videos from the Permanent Collection
The Studio Museum is the nexus for black artists locally, nationally, and internationally in Harlem will screen a selection of contemporary video works from its permanent collection.
Open Studios This Open Studio session will allow VIPs a sneak peak into the studios of artist-in-residence: Leslie Hewitt, Tanea Richardson and Saya Woolfalk.
Special Preview For The Armory Show a special preview of the Spring exhibition, Flow will be offered. Preview Dates March 28 – March 30, 2008
Whitney Museum of Art
Location: 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
Telephone: 800.944.8639
Hours: Wed – Thurs 11am – 6pm, Fri 1 – 9pm, Sat and Sun 11 – 6pm, Closed Mon and Tuesday
Exhibition: 2008 Biennial Exhibition
Opens in March 2008
Description: The curatorial team for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the Museum's signature survey of contemporary American art, will be led by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, two members of the Whitney's curatorial staff, overseen by Donna De Salvo, the Whitney's Chief Curator and Associate Director of Programs. This will be the 74th in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The list of selected artists will be announced in early 2008.
Exhibition: The Whitney’s Collection, December 19, 2007 – June 1, 2009
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