— WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 —
Last day for “John Baldessari: Double Play” at Marian Goodman, 24 West 57th Street, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (through January 19th, 2013)
This Wednesday is your last opportunity to catch John Baldessari’s newest show, Double Play, in which he pulls fragments of classical art historical works from the 18th to 20th centuries and pairs them with a variety of song titles, recasting the works in new contexts and creating new associations.
Opening reception for “Jospehsohn: JOSEPHSOHN” at Hauser & Wirth, 196A Picadilly, London, 6-8 p.m.
This show covers over 60 years of work by the late Swiss artist Josephsohn, who is best known for his sculptural experiments with geometric figuration and abstraction in depicting the human form. The exhibition—which features a number of Josephsohn’s signature boulder-like figures, as well as reliefs and more intimately-sized sculptures—is a precursor to his upcoming solo exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, both of which open in 2013.
— THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 —
Performance of “Arianne Foks: Thanks Give It (to Me Baby)" at NOoSPHERE, 251 East Houston Street, 8-11 p.m.
In case you’re hungry for some postprandial art on Thanksgiving Day, NOoSPHERE in the Lower East Side is hosting a performance by multimedia artist Arianne Foks. Based in Paris, Foks collects images and folklore from the cities she visits, which she then integrates into her performances to create site-specific pieces that deal with issues of identity and the body.
Opening reception for “The Vivisector” at Sprüth Magers, 7A Grafton Street, London, 6-8 p.m. (through January 26, 2013)
Curated by art advisor Todd Levin, this exhibition focuses on two photographic series by Cindy Sherman: “Sex Pictures,” where the artist examined ideas about the body through her use of mannequins and prosthetics, and “Broken Dolls” from 1999, depicting destroyed and reassembled figurines (which was also Sherman’s first return to black-and-white photography since the famous “Untitled Film Stills” series). The show aims to reexamine the importance of these two series in Sherman’s oeuvre alongside works by other artists who were also interested in the “transgressive figurative form,” such as Hans Bellmer, Bruce Nauman, and Morton Bartlett.
— FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 —
“1000 Paper Swans” by Elle Muliarchyk at Rebecca Taylor, 980 Madison Avenue
Photographer, artist, and recent Artspace interviewee Elle Muliarchyk recently collaborated with Performa's Tali Wertheimer and art advisor Jessica Hodin to create a storefront art installation for Rebecca Taylor’s Madison Avenue location. Inspired by a Swedish fairytale, Muliarchyk has dreamed up a multimedia installation featuring one thousand origami swans.
Opening of “Lost Line: Selections from the Permanent Collection” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Avenue, Los Angeles, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. (through February 24th, 2013)
Using Gabriel Orozco’s Lost Line sculpture as a starting point, the exhibition gathers a variety of works from the museum’s collection that share a common theme in warping typical representations of landscapes and the environment. Robert Smithson, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Buckminster Fuller, Ed Ruscha, and James Welling are just a few of the artists featured in the exhibition.
— SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 —
Last day to see “Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Lewis, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Make sure to catch this stunning exhibition of large-scale paintings by four remarkable Color Field artists before it closes. Focusing on two key historical moments in the development of the artists’ stained-canvas techniques, it's easy to see their impact not only on each other but on the future of contemporary art.
— SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 —
Last day to see Daniel Turner at the Journal (West), 106 North 1st Street, Brooklyn, 12-6 p.m.
Sunday will be your last chance to see the inaugural exhibition at the Journal’s new gallery space featuring work by artist Daniel Turner, who has recently appeared in shows at Franklin Parrasch, White Columns, and Venus Over Manhattan. Focusing on chemical compounds and their interactions, the show revolves around a pair of sculptures and a large iron-oxide installation. Think Richard Artschwager meets Lynda Benglis.
— MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26 —
Opening reception for “David LaChapelle: Still Life” at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 10th Avenue and 515 West 27th Street, 6-8 p.m. (through January 19th, 2013)
Expanding on his earlier exhibition, Earth Laughs in Flowers, which focused on the fleetingness of life in a series of modernized memento mori, photographer David LaChapelle returns to the theme with his newest series Still Life, where he documents the destruction of figurines in wax museums.
Artist talk with Richard Deacon at the New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 6:30 p.m.
London-based sculptor and former Turner Prize recipient Richard Deacon will be on hand at the New York Studio School to discuss his work, including his new solo exhibition set to open the following day at the Marian Goodman Gallery.
— TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 —
Opening reception for “FAPE’s Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print Collection” at Sperone Westwater, 257 Bowery, 6-8 p.m. (through December 8th)
Diplomatic art is the focus of this print exhibition as it celebrates the history of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies’ Original Print Collection. Since it was started in 1989 when Frank Stella’s The Symphony was printed in an edition large enough to send to every American embassy, 19 different artists have donated works to the collection, including Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Artists talk with Carol Brown Goldberg and Donald Kuspit at the New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 6:30 p.m.
As part of the New York Studio School’s fall lecture series, multimedia artist Carol Brown Goldberg will be discussing the topic of “the new Baroque Abstraction” with art critic and historian Donald Kuspit.
Opening of “African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (through April 14th, 2013)
Bringing together works from public and private collections as well as drawing from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s own holdings, this exhibition presents African wood sculptures alongside pieces from some of the most important avant-garde figures in the early 1900s, including Alfred Stieglitz, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, and Constantin Brancusi. Let the debates about the role of Primitivism in modern art recommence!
Artist talk with Scott Schuman at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, 7 p.m.
It’s every New Yorker’s secret wish to get stopped in the street and photographed by fashion photographer Scott Schuman, founder of the incredibly popular Sartorialist blog. Schuman will be speaking about his new book, The Sartorialist: Closer, which takes a deeper look at style and how it is expressed across the world. Let’s see if Chicagoan attendees will dress the part.
Opening reception for “Antony Gormley: Model” at White Cube, 144–152 Bermondsey Street, London, 6-8 p.m. (through February 10th, 2013)
Continuing Antony Gormley’s investigation into potential bodily figurations, this exhibition features a number of his human sculptures made from iron blocks as well as a new large-scale work made in response to the gallery space itself.
