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Opening Reception for Wolfgang Laib's "Photographs and Other Works" at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 535 West 22nd Street (Through May 4th)
If it feels like Wolfgang Laib has been mentioned here a lot recently, it's because he's been very busy lately. In addition to his large installation "Pollen From Hazelnut," now on view at MoMA, and his new permanent beeswax installation at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., this Friday the German conceptual artist will also be showing some of his image-based works, including photographs he made while in India and Italy.
— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13TH —
Opening Reception for Markus Lüpertz's "Bozzetti for Hercules" at Michael Werner Gallery, 4 East 77th Street, 6 – 8 p.m. (Through April 13th)
This exhibition features sculptures and drawings the artist made in conjunction to his 60-foot-tall, 23-ton sculpture of a blue-haired Hercules that was installed in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, in 2010.
Artist's Talk with Hans Haacke at the New School, Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, 7 p.m.
The contentious poltical artist—who has been known to enjoy a good debate—will be on hand to discuss his work as part of the school's Visiting Artists Lecture Series.
— THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH —
Opening Reception for Sally Gall's "Unbound" at Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 6 – 8 p.m. (Through May 4th)
In this exhibition by the noted photographer, she combines black-and-white and color images into vertically oriented diptychs and triptychs that emphasize weightlessness in horizonless worlds.
Opening Reception for "Ladies & Gents" at Salomon Contemporary, 526 West 26th Street, #519, 6 – 8 p.m. (Through April 27th)
Work by Deborah Kass, Laurel Nakadate, and Kiki Smith, and five other female artists will be on view alongside artworks by eight male artists, including Dennis Oppenheim and Dustin Yellin in this exhibition's gathering of the sexes.
Opening Reception for James Turrell's "Roden Crater and Autonomous Structures" at Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, 6 – 8 p.m. (Through April 20th)
In advance of the artist's massive, three-venue show that will take place at the Guggenheim in New York, LACMA in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, this Thursday the gallery will stage an exhibition focusing on Roden Crater—an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into a naked-eye observatory since the 1970s—that also includes 15 "Autonomous Structures," freestanding chambers in which viewers can experience novel visual phenomena.
— FRIDAY, MARCH 15TH —
Opening Reception for Robert Bordo's "Three Point Turn" at Alexander and Bonin, 132 Tenth Avenue, 6 – 8 p.m. (Through April 27th)
The darker, more explicit paintings on view in this exhibition highlight the artist's recent emphasis on combining objective forms with symbolic landscapes, some even as seen through the windows of a moving car.
Opening of "Abstract Generation: Now in Print" at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Through June 24th)
Focusing specifically on the print medium, this exhibition—which features some stellar contemporary artists like Cory Arcangel, Tauba Auerbach, Liam Gillick, and R.H. Quaytman, among others—examines how the the notion of abstraction has been applied to all manner of styles and traditions of art over the past ten years.
Opening of Dahn Vo's "I M U U R 2" at the Guggenheim, 1071 Fifth Avenue, 10 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Most famous for his sculpture "We the People," in which the artist deconstructed a to-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty into 400 separate pieces, the recent 2012 Hugo Boss Prize winner will present works by the late New York artist Martin Wong, whom Vo has extensively researched and collected.
— SATURDAY, MARCH 16TH —
Opening Reception for Rochelle Feinstein at Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, 8 – 10 p.m. (Through April 27th)
Co-hosted by Lower East Side gallery On Stellar Rays, this exhibition of paintings, photographs, and other found objects, brings together two of the artist's bodies of work, including her recent series "The Enigma Project," which takes outdated World War II coding devices as a launching point to examine contemporary social interaction.
"Eva Hesse 1965" Panel Discussion at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, 2 p.m.
Timed to coincide with the exhibition "Eva Hesse 1965," which is currently on view at the Hauser & Wirth's London gallery, this panel of writers, moderated by Elisabeth Sussman, the curator of photography at the Whitney Museum, will discuss Hesse's artistic experimentations in 1965, when she began to rethink how color and material were used in her work.
Performance by Nils Bech at the Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, 6 p.m.
Following the recent release of his critically acclaimed album Look Inside, the Norwegian singer and performance artist will perform some of his new songs while incorporating sculptural props by fellow artist Eirik Sæther, with a reception and DJ set by Jory Rabinovitz to be held after the show. RSVP to rsvp@sculpture-center.org.
— SUNDAY, MARCH 17TH —
Opening of "Against the Grain" at the Museum of Art and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Through September 15th)
As part of the museum's ongoing "Materials & Design" series, this exhibition featuring close to 90 installations from 57 artists and designers around the world, will examine some of the newest and latest techniques and trends happening in contemporary woodworking.
