Flashback Monday
Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss built a massive body of work that questions and satirizes mundane elements of the human condition for more than 30 years until Weiss’s passing in 2012. Snowman (1990), one of the many snowman sculptures duo created over the years, is a striking example of their depiction of the irony embedded in everyday situations.
New Museum
“A certain amount of haphazardness is to be expected from Mr. Pettibon, whose intentionally disheveled mix of illustration and text have coalesced into an influential style.” — Andy Battaglia
until April 9, 2017
Flashback Monday
Jenny Holzer, is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects.
Marianne Boesky Gallery
"I build my paintings with bricks made of damp, moist air. Or at least that is how it sometimes feels for me. As a young person I lived near an old castle and spent many hours drawing that castle. This group of works brought that experience back to me. I work until I feel there is something happening that makes me look and then makes me look again.” — Hannah van Bart
until February 4, 2017
Metro Pictures
German painter André Butzer started his career creating particularly visceral and turbulent semi-figurative paintings of simple human encounters inspired by comics, contemporary life, and art history.
until March 11, 2017
Galerie Lelong
“One of my obsessions is silence, silence as a key need. And in a very noisy world, silence should be produced, must be ‘made,’ because it does not exist; an inner silence so that people return to be with themselves.” — Jaume Plensa
until March 11, 2017
Flashback Monday
On Kawara passed away in 2014 in Manhattan where he lived for fifty years and created close to three thousand acrylic paintings chronicling days pass one by one. This painting documents today fifty years ago.
Galeri Lelong
A few days after the U.S. presidential election results were announced, contributor Shama Rahman spoke with Jones about Burning all illusion, the artist’s first solo exhibition with Galerie Lelong. They discussed unexpected elements of his newest works, behind-the-scenes stories of his material acquisition process, and current events.
Paul Kasmin Gallery
“The problem that interests me most in painting – it’s a tough problem – is to find that 50-50 balance between form and humor which many great masterpieces of literature have achieved…” — William N. Copley
until March 4, 2017
Met Breuer
"The Sky is a Great Space" will be the first opening of the new year at the Met Breuer on January 24th, 2017. This will be the first premier retrospective in the United States of the Italian artist.
until May 7, 2017
Sargent’s Daughters
Our editor Osman Can Yerebakan interviewed Jennifer Rubell about her first New York solo exhibition. Housewife, on view at Sargent’s Daughters in Lower East Side, includes a series of participatory sculptures that invites the audience to engage in performances that reenact house work, while questioning the presumptions about female identity and womanhood in society.
Flashback Monday
Two of the most eminent members of the YBA movement, Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin were in need of presenting their works outside the limitations of typical gallery format in the early ‘90s. Thus, they opened The Shop as a six-month project to promote their then emerging careers and offer a hang-out spot for their friends. In this east London ground floor space that used to host a doctor’s office, the duo sold printed T-shirts that read slogans like “I’m so fucky” or “She’s kebab”, rabbits made out of cigarette packs, and mugs. The Shop closed on Emin’s thirtieth birthday with a special party titled Fuckin’ Fantastic at 30 and Just About Old Enough to do Whatever She Wants.
The Drawing Center
“Mateo comes out of training as an architect, with an architect’s way of drawing. It may be fine to have that very precise, fine instrument, but I think it would be useful to think in a different way, a rough way, to do something that’s messy. In the long term the work has to allow the vulnerability of the self into it. So I’ve encouraged him to draw himself walking, to perform in front of a camera.” — William Kentridge
until March 19, 2017
Gagosian Gallery
“I do not have a vision. I am the vision. There are no limits to painting; that´s why I am involved in it. I don’t experience “limits” as limits. There is no resistance when I am painting. The inside and the outside coexist.” — Katharina Grosse
until March 11, 2017
Michael Werner Gallery
1900-1980 at Michael Werner Gallery introduces more than thirty paintings and drawings the artist created throughout his career, including the MoMA loan of his most famous painting.
until March 11, 2017
The FLAG Art Foundation
“One could read the whole esprit of a place on one canvas. It was not only that place on that particular day when the sky was gray and some mist was getting in, it was the place the way it will always be, containing as well the very moment that place was portrayed.” — Simone Fattal
until May 13, 2017
