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2. Sculpture Born of Scissors and Paper.
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GENOCCHIO, BENJAMIN
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PAPER sculpture , *ART exhibitions , *20TH century art , *PAPER arts , *SCULPTURE exhibitions - Abstract
It is hard to define sculpture these days. Artists continue to make three-dimensional objects, but the range and variety of materials they employ defy classification. This is enchantingly evident in a show by the Armenian artist Karen Sargsyan at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. Mr. Sargsyan, 36, makes figurative sculptures from cut paper. The works in the current show were created during his stay in Peekskill last fall as the center's artist in residence. Depending on how you look at it, the exhibition consists of either hundreds of individual cut paper sculptures arranged across the mezzanine gallery or a single installation made up of many parts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
3. Move Over, Humble Doily: Paper Does a Star Turn.
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Rosenberg, Karen
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions , *PAPER arts , *PAPER - Abstract
Is paper passe? Your answer will most likely depend on whether you're reading this sentence on newsprint or on a screen. But it's safe to say that artists and designers aren't ready to quit the stuff, at least by the measure of the latest show at the Museum of Arts and Design. They are, however, willing to pierce, shred, carve and slice it. ''Slash: Paper Under the Knife,'' the third show in the museum's Materials and Process series, explores the sometimes violent, always intricate art of paper cutting. (It follows ''Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting'' and ''Pricked: Extreme Embroidery'' in 2007 and 2008.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
4. 'WORK ON PAPER'.
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Johnson, Ken
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DRAWING exhibitions , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Comments on the drawing exhibition titled Work on Paper in New York City.
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- 2005
5. A Fresh Look At Palladio On Paper.
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Moonan, Wendy
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PEN drawing , *MANNERISM (Art) , *ARCHITECTS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Reports that a pen-and-ink drawing of a palace in Venice, Italy, is one of the many treasures that the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York City, will show beginning March 11, 2004, when it opens "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth". Drawings by the Mannerist architect Andrea Palladio; Proposal for a new Doge's Palace in Venice which was never used.
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- 2004
6. 'Works on Paper.'.
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Glueck, Grace
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
Reviews the art exhibition 'Works on Paper,' at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City.
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- 2002
7. Bill Rice: 'Paintings and Works on Paper'.
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Cotter, Holland
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ART exhibitions - Abstract
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects 24 East 73rd Street, Second Floor, Manhattan [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
8. The Clues Left Behind in Works on Paper.
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Rosenberg, Karen
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
The brevity of Ree Morton's art career had little to do with the usual reasons for the disappearance of talented women. Morton had married and started a family before she became a full-time artist in the late 1960s, taking just a decade to get up to speed with all the major ''isms.'' She had a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art and an installation at the South Street Seaport and was the subject of an Artforum essay by the influential critic Lucy Lippard. Then in 1977 -- just shy of her 41st birthday -- Morton died in a car accident. Her death, coming not long after those of Eva Hesse in 1970 and Robert Smithson in 1973, dealt another cruel blow to postminimal sculpture. The art world recognized her achievements with a Morton retrospective at the New Museum in 1980. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
9. Castles in the Air Adorn Cities on Paper.
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Muschamp, Herbert
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ART exhibitions , *MUSEUMS - Abstract
Reviews the art exhibition 'The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings From the Howard Gilman Collection,' on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City through January 6, 2002.
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- 2002
10. Corrections.
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PERIODICAL articles , *ART , *ART exhibitions ,REVIEWS - Abstract
An art review on Friday about an exhibition at the George Adams Gallery in Manhattan referred incorrectly to some of the portraits by Alfred Leslie on display. They are graphite pencil on paper, not charcoal on paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
11. Finding Stimulation Along the Edges.
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COTTER, HOLLAND
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ART exhibitions , *ART museums , *ARTISTS , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
The article focuses on the trends and activities of various art institutions in the U.S. in 2012. It says that Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) remains silent over its plans for the Whitney's Breuer Building. It discusses various art shows in 2012 including shows featuring the works of Richard Artschwager and Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum, the "Joseph Albers in America: Painting on Paper" exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and the "Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde" show at MoMA.
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- 2012
12. A New, More Spacious Home for the Parrish.
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LIPSON, KARIN
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ART museum design & construction , *FUNDRAISING , *RECESSIONS , *MUSEUM building design & construction , *ART exhibitions , *COLLECTION management (Museums) - Abstract
The article offers information on the Parrish Art Museum in East End, Long Island in New York that opens on November 10, 2012, which resembles an elongated and connected double barn. It states that the Parrish was designed by Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG and Reed Hilderbrand Associates Inc. It says that the museum has seven galleries for permanent collection and has three for contemporary exhibitions, such as "Malcolm Morley: Painting, Paper, Process" until January 13, 2013.
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- 2012
13. Untitled.
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Vogel, Carol
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ART exhibitions , *ARTISTS , *PAINTING - Abstract
IT has already been a huge crowd pleaser in San Francisco and Paris, and now ''THE STEINS COLLECT: MATISSE, PICASSO AND THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE'' is coming to New York, where it opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday. The exhibition focuses on Gertrude Stein and her brothers, Leo and Michael (as well as Michael's wife Sarah), who settled in Paris in the early years of the 20th century and befriended artists like Matisse and Picasso. Their home became a famous gathering place where they held weekly salons for artists and collectors, scholars, dealers and aristocrats to see the latest examples of what was being produced during those years. And over time the family amassed a formidable collection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures that offers a snapshot of a seminal era in the history of art. The exhibition showcases the Steins' collection, with both well-known and obscure images that total around 200 paintings, sculpture and works on paper. The show begins with the art Leo Stein collected when he moved to Paris in 1903 -- paintings and prints by Cezanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet and Renoir -- and goes on to chronicle the family's acquisitions in subsequent years, examining the close relationships they formed with many of the artists they encountered. Through June 3, (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
14. Highlighting Influence of Asia Behind Artwork.
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Vogel, Carol
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ART exhibitions , *ARTISTS , *CHINESE painting , *EXHIBITIONS ,PARK Avenue (New York, N.Y.) - Abstract
Exhibitions at Asia Society often reveal an unfamiliar dimension to an artist's work. When the society presented a show about the Japanese neo-Pop artist Yoshitomo Nara last year, for example, it examined how his passion for music influenced his art. A new exhibition by the installation artist Sarah Sze will explore her process and her interest in traditional Chinese painting. ''Sarah Sze: Infinite Line,'' which runs Dec. 13 to March 25, will focus specifically on the artist's works on paper. And for the first time, Asia Society's large window facing Park Avenue, by 70th Street, will be uncovered so that passers-by will be able to see a site-specific installation Ms. Sze (pronounced ZEE) has created for the space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
15. What the Earth Gives, And What It Inspires.
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Hodara, Susan
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ARTISTS , *CERAMICS , *CLAY , *ART exhibitions , *ART centers - Abstract
WHITE PLAINS THE diversity of work created by ceramic artists from around the region -- from clay formed so finely it resembles furled paper to orbs that appear immovable in their massiveness -- is currently on view in ''Earth,'' an exhibition at ArtsWestchester's Arts Exchange here, presented in cooperation with Clay Art Center in Port Chester. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
16. A Time to Play, In a Flashback To the '70s Art World.
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Smith, Roberta
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ART museums , *ART exhibitions , *MODERN art - Abstract
Participatory art came to the Museum of Modern Art long before Marina Abramovic began her daylong vigils seated opposite one random museum visitor at a time. It arrived at least as early as 1970, with the interactive, sewn-canvas sculptures of a young German artist named Franz Erhard Walther. These works were included in the museum's ''Spaces'' exhibition, a show of installations by five artists and one collective that was itself among the first of its kind. So it makes a certain sense that while Ms. Abramovic is performing in the Modern's atrium, Mr. Walther -- much better known in Europe than here -- is having his first solo show in New York in nearly 20 years. On view at Peter Freeman Inc. in SoHo, it contains 6 sculptures and more than 30 works on paper. Nearly all date from 1967 to 1973, when Mr. Walther was living and working in New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
17. Invisible Hand In MoMA Shows.
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Kennedy, Randy
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ART museums , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
In hundreds of exhibitions over the last three decades the names of a stunning number of curators and artists have entered the institutional memory of the Museum of Modern Art. But behind nearly all of these shows there has been a constant, a man whose name rarely surfaces anywhere except in invoices. It seems somehow appropriate, then, to find Jerome Neuner, the director of the museum's department of exhibition design and production, in a windowless office below street level, down an anonymous industrial hallway. The tables around him are covered by yards of scroll-like paper that look like something a medieval copyist might pore over. But these are computer-printed scrolls, precise, color-coded schedules that keep Mr. Neuner apprised of every important date involving the shows now happening or about to happen throughout the 125,000 square feet of gallery space above his head, 40,000 more square feet than he had to worry about before the museum's expansion was completed in 2004. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
18. Sample Sale.
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Viladas, Pilar
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ART exhibitions , *ART museums , *WALLPAPER , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
The article presents information related to the "Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product," exhibition, which is scheduled to take place on November 9, 2007 at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The exhibition is reported to show instances from the museum's collection of wallpaper and fabric sample books, sample ceramic plates and other items. Lucy Commoner, the museum's head of conservation, talked about the beauty and modernity of objects to be exhibited.
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- 2007
19. Galleries: SoHo.
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ART exhibitions , *ART previews , *EXHIBITIONS , *ARTISTS - Abstract
Presents several art exhibitions in New York. "Two Sculptures for a Room by Palermo," by Gerhard Richter; Works of artists Richard Artschwager and Ed Ruscha; "Works on Paper, 1957-1964," by Robert Ryman.
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- 2004
20. Exactly What About White Don't You Understand?
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Cotter, Holland
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PAINTING , *ART exhibitions , *CONCEPTUAL art - Abstract
Focuses on Robert Ryman: Works on Paper, 1957-1964, a painting exhibition of Ryman at the Peter Blum Gallery in New York City. Emergence of abstraction and Conceptual Art during the twentieth century; His practice of using white paint almost exclusively to all kinds of surfaces.
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- 2004
21. Michael Mazur.
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Glueck, Grace
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ART exhibitions , *ARTISTS - Abstract
The article presents information on the art exhibition by Michael Mazur in Manhattan. For one who started out under the spell of the gloomy graphic artist and sculptor Leonard Baskin, Mazur has come a distance. Primarily known as a printmaker, he is also a draftsman, sculptor and painter. The canvases and works on paper seem to have progressed beyond the Chinese influence to a looser, more open handling of paint and space. The resulting exuberance and canvases are less structured, their sunnier colors and freer linear forms floating in a limitless expanse.
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- 2004
22. Thomas Demand.
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Johnson, Ken
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PAINTING , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
The article presents information on the painting exhibition by Thomas Demand in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York. Demand's big color photographs of things that look real but turn out to be carefully constructed of paper, plastic and other inexpensive materials are as visually striking and philosophically provocative as ever. "Clearing," is a 17-foot-wide vision of a dense forest interior with sunlight steaming into the middle. That things so clearly fake can seem so vividly real propels the mind into deeper waters of thought, not only about how and what one can truly know about the world.
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- 2004
23. Douglas Florian: 'Letting in the Light'.
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Smith, Roberta
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
The artist and poet Douglas Florian is best known for writing and illustrating award-winning children's books that are wittily educational, especially about animals. Working in gouache with collage, he depicts just about anything with an impressive combination of accuracy and improvisation and is similarly free with language. Mr. Florian, who always works on paper bags, has shown in art galleries since 1985, presenting work that is generally more abstract if no less playful than his illustrations. Here his excellent eye for color shines, and an organic multiculturalism is given full expression. Tantra, Elizabeth Murray, maps, free-range calligraphy, Marimekko handmade wrapping paper and Gerhard Richter all come to mind in this show of 33 small paintings, most done this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
24. Crayons and Legos: A Designer's Tools.
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Wadler, Joyce
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
THURSDAY night is gallery trolling night in Chelsea, so it was not surprising last week to find a crowd upstairs at the Max Lang gallery, examining the early works of the interior designer Scott Sanders. Under the proud eye of the curator, Shirley Sanders, the crowd examined drawings like ''Self-Portrait With Rosy Cheeks,'' a crayon on paper, from 1969, which showed a grinning little boy in dark glasses who looked eerily like the 47-year-old Mr. Sanders looks today; ''Colonial Home,'' a ballpoint pen on paper, from 1977; and ''Mega Mansion,'' a marker-pen drawing on paper, from 1975, of a great house set on a hilly landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
25. How Noguchi shed light on light itself.
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Muschamp, Herbert
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ART exhibitions , *INTERIOR decoration , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
Profiles Isamu Noguchi and discusses his famous Akari lamps in the `Quiet Light' exhibition at the Gallery at Takashimaya in New York City. Paper and silk lamps; Their variety, simplicity, translucence and craft.
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- 1994
26. Art: Last Chance.
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ART exhibitions - Abstract
The article reviews several art exhibitions in New York City including "Here Your Are," by artist Maya Bloch, "Electricity Fabric Paint Paper Vinyl," by Daniel Buren, and "The Matriarch's Rhapsody," by Jacolby Satterwhite.
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- 2013
27. Mechanics and Grace Found in Small Tasks.
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LA ROCCO, CLAUDIA
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
There are so many ways to talk about the cultural differences between the performance and visual art worlds (and curators seem at pains to do so, emphasizing which ''context'' an artist should be seen in, so we poor huddled masses might better direct our gazes). Comparing and contrasting the consumer mores of each world is one of the more enjoyable methods for framing the conversation. Which group tends to be titillated by nudity and which bored, for example, or which will spend lots of time to see something but not lots of money, and vice versa? When the French choreographer Marie Cool cycled through ''Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2007,'' her collaboration with the artist Fabio Balducci during Performa 07, the sizable crowd at the Clocktower Gallery hustled for the best viewing positions, getting as close to the action as possible. Audience members only gradually siphoned off as the repetitive, reductive evening wore on. (The diminutive Ms. Cool does not so much perform as mechanically enact whimsical little tasks: sliding pieces of paper together into peaks on a tabletop or deftly pushing white string into fluid patterns.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
28. Exhibition Of Haitian Art.
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Taylor, Kate
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS , *HAITIAN art - Abstract
An exhibition of Haitian painting, sculpture and works on paper -- including Salnave Philippe-Auguste's ''Birds and Flowers,'' a detail of which is shown above -- will be on view at Affirmation Arts at 523 West 37th Street in Manhattan from Oct. 1 to Nov. 24, the gallery said on Tuesday. The exhibition, ''Saving Grace: A Celebration of Haitian Art,'' is being organized by a historian of Haitian art, Gerald Alexis, and will feature works from the Nader Gallery in Port-au-Prince, as well as others being lent by artists and private collectors in Haiti, Canada and the United States. Many of the best-known artists of the Haitian Renaissance, including Hector Hyppolite, Celestin Faustin, Wilson Bigaud and Prefete Duffaut, will be represented. The Nader Gallery survived the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January, but a private museum owned by the same family, and which housed some 12,000 works of art, was destroyed. Two paintings included in the exhibition, Hyppolite's ''Pot de Fleurs'' and Faustin's ''Beau Reve,'' were pulled from the wreckage and restored by art conservators working in a lab set up in Port-au-Prince by the Smithsonian Institution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
29. Summer.
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KIEFER, ANSELM
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Anselm Kiefer, ''Sommer in Barjac -- Die beruhmten Orden der Nacht'' 2010, gouache on photographic paper. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York. Translation of text on the work: ''Summer in Barjac -- the renowned orders of the night.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
30. Margarita Paksa and Horacio Zabala: 'Analogies & Differences'.
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Cotter, Holland
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ART exhibitions , *LAND art - Abstract
This show pairs small-scale work, mostly on paper, by two Argentine artists little seen in New York. Each grew up in Buenos Aires during years of civic trauma; each has packed responses to a deadly era into the art. Margarita Paksa graduated from art school in 1955 and participated in the pro-democracy protests that brought down the rule of Juan Peron that year. A core member of the art world vanguard, she experimented, critically, with variations on Minimalism, Conceptual art and performance, and with sexual and topical content that led to police censorship and a brief imprisonment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
31. Shedding New Light on Old Friends.
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Smith, Roberta
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS , *SCULPTURE exhibitions - Abstract
Alexander Calder and Yves Tanguy -- old friends, drinking buddies and Connecticut neighbors -- are together again. Or rather, their art is, in a delightful, immersive exercise in mutual illumination at L&M Arts on the Upper East Side. Surprisingly, this has never happened before. The L&M exhibition, ''Tanguy/Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction,'' brings together 46 works from 1934 to 1956. There are 25 sculptures by Calder, including marvelously ethereal, levitating stabiles and mobiles; some of the wood-and-wire constellations; and three uncharacteristic bronze sculptures. Quite a few of these might almost have walked out of one or more of the 19 paintings and works on paper by Tanguy, some of which even include startlingly Calderesque wire structures, and nearly all of which depict oddly shaped, water-worn stones in amalgams that suggest human involvement, albeit long past. Stonehenge for pebble lovers. These formations, in varying densities, occupy vast plains that recede in increasingly atmospheric, horizon-free gradations of land, mist and sky. The colors often have a warm sunset glow -- if not a lurid afterglow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
32. Artistic Matchmaking in Met Galleries.
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Johnson, Ken
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ART exhibitions , *ART museums , *AMERICAN art - Abstract
Navigating the Metropolitan Museum of Art can be bewildering -- there is so much great stuff to see in every direction that you can feel rudderless. So it helps to have a plan. Here is a good one: Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum in Ohio, under renovation, has sent 19 of its best paintings and one sculpture to New York, where they are in permanent collection galleries along with the works they relate to at the Met. This may not sound like much on paper, but it makes for a rewarding scavenger hunt. The exhibition, ''Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Met,'' was organized by Maryan Ainsworth, curator of European paintings at the Met, and Andria Derstine, curator of European and American art at the Allen, and Stephanie Wiles, the Allen's director. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
33. Spare Times: MAD Family Day.
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Graeber, Laurel
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Cutting, shredding, slashing and burning are usually processes associated with destruction. But on Saturday the Museum of Arts and Design will show children 5 and older how all that clipping and ripping can also play a role in creation. That's the message of Mad Family Day, which will center on the exhibition ''Slash: Paper Under the Knife.'' While the museum offers children's workshops in its Studio Sunday series (this week the theme is pop-up cards), Saturday will be its first family day since it relocated to Columbus Circle. The idea is: Hey kids, meet the new kid. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
34. Fairy Tales, But Strictly Adults-Only.
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Kino, Carol
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS , *PAINTING - Abstract
THINK of the artist Paul McCarthy, and it's hard not to imagine him the way he has appeared in countless videos and performances through the years -- stuffing a bunch of mayonnaise-and-ketchup-slathered hot dogs in his mouth, as he did, say, in ''Hot Dog'' (1974), or wearing a clown's nose and muttering maniacally while sloshing paint on canvas (''Painter,'' 1995), or running amok with a gang of elves in a filthy, chocolate-smeared Santa suit (''Santa Chocolate Shop,'' 1996-97). Or else doing other things in projects over the years -- things involving Barbie dolls, sausages, Vaseline and his own and other people's bodily orifices -- that cannot be described here. But during a recent interview at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York, the day before the opening of his new show of works on paper there, ''White Snow'' (through Dec. 24), Mr. McCarthy presented a strikingly different persona. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
35. Multilayered and Multicultural, Creative Views of the Muslim Head Scarf.
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Rosenberg, Karen
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS , *MUSLIMS , *FRENCH people - Abstract
The hijab, or Muslim head scarf, is supposed to deflect attention. So what should we make of the model wearing a leopard-print version and an eye patch? She's the creation of Princess Hijab, an anonymous Parisian street artist, who adorns women in advertisements with impromptu black-marker ''veils'' and papers public spaces with her own hipsterish ''Hijab Ads.'' The princess is the Shepard Fairey of the French Muslim world or maybe the Naomi Klein. Is she a ''hijabist''? Or even a Muslim? We don't know. But you can see some of her work in ''The Seen and the Hidden: [Dis]covering the Veil,'' at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Midtown Manhattan. The exhibition, which includes artists from Europe and the Middle East as well as American artists of diverse backgrounds, reminds New Yorkers that debates about the veil are heating up in many communities overseas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
36. Varied Female Archetypes, One Main Fixation.
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Rosenberg, Karen
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Let's get one thing straight: John Currin can draw, but he's no draftsman. His material attraction to paint -- whether in the glowing flesh of his Cranach-inspired nudes or the crude impasto complexions of more modern subjects -- is undeniable. And life drawing has a limited role in his practice, despite his oft-professed interest in the old masters and his self-consciousness about being a figurative painter. So a certain degree of skepticism may accompany a visit to ''John Currin: Works on Paper -- A Fifteen Year Survey of Women,'' at the Andrea Rosen Gallery. What can these 77 drawings, most from the 1990s, tell us about this much-dissected artist or his way of seeing the world that we don't already know, in richer and more compelling detail, from his paintings? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
37. Wide World Of Abstract Expressionism.
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ROBERTA SMITH
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
''Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, 1945-1965'' has a portentous, this-will-change-everything title. The show itself, at the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea through Saturday, is a big grab bag. Capricious, uneven and at times overly homogenous, it mixes together unknown gems, golden oldies and undistinguished work. But while it may ultimately reinforce as much as shake up the canon it takes to task, its relatively unfiltered view of art history is a wonderful thing to sort through. The spacious Miller gallery is lined with a thoughtfully installed parade of more than 90 small paintings, paintings on paper and drawings by nearly 70 artists whose reputations run the gamut from unknown to world famous. Most of the works were made in New York in the late 1940s and '50s. But a handful of them fall outside the show's 1945-to-1965 time slot, confusingly broadening its span to 1930-78. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2008
38. LUIS CAMNITZER.
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Cotter, Holland
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
LUIS CAMNITZER This pioneering Conceptual artist, who exhibits infrequently in New York City, has something new and something old in this concise solo. The new piece, ''Last Words,'' right, is a series of six large posterlike sheets of paper with a stream of printed text made up of hundreds of short, direct-address sentences: ''Tell Mom I love her. I love you all. Goodbye to my family. Don't forget me. I love all of you.'' And so on. The valedictory words suggest dire situations: I thought of cellphone calls made from the World Trade Center on 9/11. In fact all the phrases are from final statements made by death row prisoners, which Mr. Camnitzer found on the official Web site of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The sentiments subtly change in tone as the series progresses, shifting from loving farewells to giving thanks to helpful friends, including lawyers, to verbal displays of bravura. The final sentences in the piece are: ''I am ready. Tell the guys on Death Row that I'm not wearing a diaper. I can't think of anything else.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2008
39. Wallpaper LAB.
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Smith, Roberta
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions , *WALLPAPER - Abstract
The article reviews the exhibition "Wallpaper LAB," in Chelsea, New York City, which will run through October 14, 2006.
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- 2006
40. Ken Price.
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Glueck, Grace
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ART exhibitions , *ART museums , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
The article reviews the art exhibition "Early Cups and Related Works on Paper," by Ken Price at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York City through June 10, 2006.
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- 2006
41. Saluting a Pure Form of Abstraction, Long May It Wave.
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Smith, Roberta
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
Reviews two art exhibitions in New York City in 2000. `Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance' at Dia Center for the Arts; `Bridget Riley: Paintings 1982-2000 and Early Works on Paper' at PaceWildenstein.
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- 2000
42. Art in Review.
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Johnson, Ken
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DRAWING exhibitions , *ART exhibitions , *ARMORIES - Abstract
Reviews the art exhibition `Works on Paper,' at Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City, New York through March 5, 2000.
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- 2000
43. Art in Review.
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Johnson, Ken
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DRAWING exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Reviews the `Works on Paper,' an art exhibition which was held in New York, New York.
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- 1999
44. Art in Review.
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Glueck, Grace
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ART exhibitions , *SCULPTURE exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
Reviews the exhibition `Recent Work: Marble, Bronze, Plaster and Paper,' by Manuel Neri, at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York City, through January 9, 1999.
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- 1999
45. Art in review.
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Glueck, Grace
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ART exhibitions - Abstract
Reviews the exhibition `Paper + Finland = Art,' at the American Craft Museum, New York from March to May 10, 1998.
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- 1998
46. Enough About 'Gates' as Art; Let's Talk About That Price Tag.
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McIntire, Mike
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ART exhibitions , *ART materials , *RATE of return - Abstract
Examines the price of the "Gates" exhibition by Christo and Jeanne-Claude held in Central Park. Price tag of $21 million and the question of how some nylon fabric, steel and vinyl tubing could have cost that much; Payment of the money by the artists without the use of any public or corporate funds; Estimated that the exhibition brought $254 million into the city's economy; Refusal of the artists to say how they came up with the sum which has stirred debate; The art installation agreement with the city which promised about $5 million in fees; Approximate prices on the physical supplies; How the artists are recouping their investment in the exhibit.
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- 2005
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