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New York City Art Galleries and Museums; current listings, reviews and articles. Plus... links to worldwide gallery and museum sites, magazines, articles and other research opportunities.

Welcome to the George Mason University Artsbus site.

Artsbus is sponsored by the department of Art and Visual Technology and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The program was founded in 1987 by Professor Jerry Clapsaddle and grew under his direction until his retirement in 2004. The program is an integral part of our AVT curriculum.

We make three all-day bus trips to New York City each semester. Our trips are for GMU students and faculty, but we welcome the larger community to join us.

Our web site is a public resource.

365 Research:
- Links at the top of this page to "Galleries" and "Museums" will provide year round information to over 300 galleries and museums in New York City, and Washington DC.
- Use the "Quick Links/Research" on the right to go to galleries around the world, the USA,and to find contextual information and published articles about contemporary, modern and earlier artists, styles and movements.
- Find archived articles above, under "research."


This site
is a always a work in progress; Trip specific gallery and museum listings, reviews and links to articles appear throughout the months of September, October, November, February, March and April by linking above on "Current Exhibitions," and in the right hand column of this page.



Fall 2008 ArtsBus trip dates:
September 27 , October 18, November 15

Special needs passengers please inform pwinant@gmu.edu at least two weeks before departure, as coach providers need advance notice to provide service.

NOTICE Re: AVT 300: ...........If you need AVT 300 for next Fall, you may sign up for any of the three sections CRN#'s will be posted soon. If you need more than 1 credit, you may sign up for more than one section.

Day trip ticket:
- General Public / Non AVT 300 passengers: $65
- AVT 300 students: AVT 300 enrollment for Artsbus credit allows a student the opportunity to claim one free Artsbus ticket to New York, per credit, as long as tickets are claimed in a timely fashion. But, students are not guaranteed a ticket, and may not get on the trip of their choice.
- A block of seats is held each semester exclusively for AVT 300 students until the week before the first trip, February . After that, tickets are made available to the general public. After February , AVT 300 students may still obtain tickets, as long as trips have not sold out. Therefore, AVT 300 students are strongly advised to get tickets early.


* Purchase/get your tickets at the Box Office of the Center for the Arts (open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00-6:00... phone# 703.993.2787) at George Mason University, or through www.tickets.com (888-945-2468, additional service charge of $3.75 a ticket and $1.50 per order.) Tickets purchased through the Center for the Arts box office must be picked up by Friday, before the 6:00 AM Saturday departure).
 
* Buses leave promptly at 6:00 AM from the George Mason University Fairfax Campus, Finley Building. Boarding begins at 5:30AM. You may park in GMU Fairfax Lot H. Link here for a printable map of the campus

* Click here for the standard itinerary for day trip buses. Artsbus is intended to be self-guided. A list of recommended exhibitions, reviews, directions, and maps for a self-guided tour will be distributed on the bus. For those who wish an experienced guide, George Mason Faculty conduct tours to exhibitions in various areas of the city for your first 2 hours in NYC.
 

What's in the Museums for Spring 2008?
link to galleries and museums by clicking on the museum names below, or by clicking on the "galleries" or "museums" headings above. Also, click on "Current Exhibitions" above for a more complete listing of preselected, "Good Bet" shows.

  • UPTOWN:(listed from North to South.)
  • The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum- (March and April) "Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008" traces the Post Baroque style from its origins to it's increasing resurgence in contemporary work through furniture, textiles, drawings and prints.
  • The Jewish Museum-
  • The Guggenheim- (All Spring)"Cai Guo-Quiang: I Want to Believe" The first major exhibition of this contemporary Chinese born artist in the US...100 foot long gunpowder drawings, video documentation of explosive events and large scale installations, including 9 exploded cars suspended in the main, central space of the museum.
  • National Academy -
  • Neue Galerie Museum-German and Austrian Art New Museum- (all Spring) "Gustav Klimt: the Ronald Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections" 120 drawings and 8 paintings form the first major US retrospective of the turn-of-the -last-century, Viennese artist's sexually charged works. Also, with a reconstructed receiving room from Klimt's studio.
  • The Metropolitan- (ongoing)The New Galleries for Oceanic Art, PLUS; ( all Spring) "In the Light of Poussin: The Classical Landscape Tradition" looks at the intersection of the 1650's romantic, constructed view of the natural world and antiquity., PLUS;(all Spring) Tara Donovan's installation of mylar strips, PLUS; (February) "Abstract Expressionist Drawings," PLUS;(all Spring) Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks" is a 40 photograph exposition of the great landscape architect's enduring works... on the 150th anniversary of Central Park, PLUS; (all Spring) "Jasper Johns: Gray" 120 paintings, reliefs drawings and prints of the Post Dada, Pop Artist's love affair with the nuances of gray, PLUS; (all Spring) "Radiance from the Rainforest: Featherwork from Ancient Peru" presents examples of luminous color and texture from compositions of feathers in adornment and clothing, PLUS; (all Spring) "Gustave Courbet 1819-1877" is a major retrospective of the not quite imressionist, pre-modernist painter's work
  • The Whitney (March and April)"The Biennial" is the Whitney's survey of contemporary trends in American art...always controversial, often revelatory. PLUS; (all Spring) "Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster" were refered to as "Precisionist" works (1927-1935), but the basis of their composition can be seen from Pop Art onward, and is particularly visible today.
  • The Frick Collection
  • America's Society
  • MIDTOWN:
  • MoMA (all Spring) "RAW-WAR" compares the text based work of Holtzer, Nauman, Haghizhian and Horowitz, PLUS; (Febrary/March) "Jan de Cock: Denmal" is an installation of floor to ceiling photographs of the museum's collection mounted on plywood modules, PLUS; (March and April) "Design and the Elastic Mind" focuses on the conversion of the disorienting tumult of modern technology into the culturally stabilizing objects and systems of design.PLUS; (all spring) "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" surveys the shift from the personal pallete of hand ground pigments to the adoption of manufactured color as an aesthetic and philosophical choice.
  • Museum of American Folk Art
  • Museum of Arts and Design- (all spring) "Pricked; Extreme Embroidery" The lines between craft and art have been blurred for years, but this show makes a particularly strong comparison between embroidery and contemporary painting.
  • The International Center for Photography (ICP): (all Spring) "The Collection of Barbara Bloom" is a retrospective of the artist's installation based photographs, as well as her "personal archive of ephemera and advertisement" reveal the human compulsion to collect, PLUS; (all Spring) "Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art" showcase Tacita Dean, Christian Boltanski, Walid Raad, Anri Sala, Lorna Simpson and many others who explore content through archival processes.
  • SOHO and LOWER EAST SIDE:
    Drawing Center
    (February and March) "Selections: Spring 2008" is work of artists selected from the Center's directory of artists...which means you should check this out, and send in examples of your work. PLUS; "Sterling Ruby: Chron" is 50 works with architectonic subject matter that explore violence, repression and social control.

    Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection (February and March) "Diebenkorn in New Mexico" Modern/Contemporary, Hopper inspired master painter's works
    The New Museum (February and March)
    "Unmonumental: the object in the 21st Century" is the first in a series of shows that will look at the new wave of sculpture that is driven by process and material. This group of artists focus on "modesty, informality and improvisation." The museum has just opened up in a new building, and is sure to create a burgeoning gallery district.
  • CHELSEA:
  • Chelsea Art Museum
  • QUEENS:
  • PS1: (all spring) Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution" If you missed this show at the Nation Museum of Women in the Arts in DC, this is well worth your time. But expect a three hour or longer visit to do the show justice.
    Brooklyn Museum:(March and April)" Master's of the Japanese Print 1770-1900" The influence of Japanese prints is strong in contemporary imagery, and this show provides examples that prove the point.

    BRONX:
    Bronx Museum:

Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum
 
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Contact: (allow 3-5 days for a response)
Peter Winant
pwinant@gmu.edu
703-993-8385 during the school year

Quick Links/Research:

Articles: also, link to "Research" above for archived articles

-Schjehldahl on New Museum "The Thing Itself" (New Yorker)
- Schjeldahl on Lucien Freud (New Yorker)
- Schjeldahl on "Multiplex" at MoMA (New Yorker)
- "Archive Fever" at ICP (NY Times Review)
- Friday Arts Reviews; New York Times 1/18/08
- Irving Penn at the Morgan Library NY Times)
- David Smith at Gagosian (Smith/New York Times)
-Jan de Cock at MoMA (Rosenburg, New York Times)
- Bruce Nauman/Venice Biennial 2009 ( Vogel, New york times)
- "Color as Field" at the American Art Museum (Gopnik , The Post)

- "Indelible impressions" The Whitney Biennial (Gopnik, Wash Post)
- "Moving Pictures" Hirshhorn museum (Gopnik, Wash Post)
- Whitney Biennial, ( Jerry Salz, NY Magazine VIDEO)
- Lee Freidlander @ the Met (NY Magazine slide show)
- Michelangelo and his Contemporaries@ the Morgan Library (NY Magazine slide show)
-The Whitney Biennial (Schjeldahl, New Yorker Magazine)
- "Color Chart: reinventing Color 1950-Today" @ MoMA (Schjeldahl, New Yorker Magazine)
- Whitney Biennial, (Village Voice)

Artists and Styles:
artfacts.net
guggenheim research tool
medien kunst net
artnet
artcyclopedia
The Artists.org
Saatchi gallery/artists

re-title.com/ artist directory

Images::
google

Reviews/Listings
Artforum
New York Magazine
Village Voice

the New Yorker
the New York Times

Washington Post
Artforum listings
Gallery Guide
Williamsburg and Greenpoint Gallery Guide
Art News

Magazines, Papers and Sites:
Art on Paper
Aperture
Dwell
Los Angeles Times

Cabinet
Frieze
Parkett
Journal of Contemporary Art
E-flux
Stot
culturebase.net
City Paper (washington, DC)
Flash Art

Criticism, Aesthetics:
Art Critical
Critical Inquiry
Art Papers

Photography:
The ultimate guide to photography in NYC

World-wide Gallery Link:
London, Madrid, Sao Paulo, etc.

Other U.S. Cities- Galleries and Museums:
Atlanta
Boston
and here
and here
Chicago
and here
and here
Miami
Los Angeles
and here
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Washington D.C.
and here
and here
and here

   
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