research and current listings for New York City art galleries and museums

New York City Art Galleries and Museums:
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 2009 ArtsBus trip dates:
September 19, October 17, November 14
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/SART 300: ...........If you need AVT/SART 300 , you may sign up for any of the three sections CRN# 72570. 72571 or 72572. If you need more than 1 credit, you may sign up for more than one section.

Museum Highlights for Fall 2009:
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.

Feature!!! After several years in the making, the High LIne Park is open. Take a walk along the 15 block, 3/4 mile elevated train track from 30th street to Gansevort, through Chelsea. Check out the new work by Spencer Finch between 15th and 16th streets. (Learn More! about the work of Spencer Finch here)

• UPTOWN:(listed from North to South.)
• The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum-
  - October and November: 'Design USA: Contemporary Innovation' "celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion." (Learn More! http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/2009/)
  - All Fall: 'Design for a Living World' " Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design."
  
• The Jewish Museum-
  All Fall: 'Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life' " surveys Jewish ritual as a vital site of experimentation in contemporary art and design since the 1990s."...and 'Rite Now: Sacred and Secular in Video' "This grouping of videos produced between 2001 and 2009 focuses on explorations of secular and sacred ceremonies in a new framework. Some document inventive spiritual practice, some refocus old stories using a contemporary lens, and other works function independently as new rituals."
  
• The Guggenheim-
  - All Fall: 'Kandinsky' is the first full scale retrospective since 1958 of the artist who many feel originated abstract painting. As a member of 'Der Blaue Rieter' (Blue Rider) group and throughout his lengthy career, the scope of his influence is enormous. Kandinsky's influence as a teacher was also great. His publications about color theory and composition, and his work at the Bauhaus place him at the center of the evolution of modern art.
  - November: Anish Kapoor 'Memory' is a commissioned sculpture that adds to the range of this artist's astounding vocabulary. (more on Kapoor:http://www.anishkapoor.com/
  
• National Academy -
  - All Fall: 'Reconfiguring the Body in American Art' " is an exhibition that examines the critical role the human figure has played in the Nation’s art for the past 189 years. Transcending chronological, stylistic, and generational boundaries the exhibition will present 160 works drawn from the National Academy’s important and wide ranging collection of American art, as well as an intriguing selection of works by contemporary artists who are carrying on the figurative tradition in new and adventurous ways."
  
• Neue Galerie Museum-German and Austrian Art
  -September and October: 'Focus:Oscar Kokoschka' "was a key figure in the history of Expressionism. He received his greatest acclaim for his portraits. He was able to fix his reactions to a sitter directly on the canvas, without preparatory studies. The subjects of his portraits are illuminated from within, rather than from an exterior light source. In this way, Kokoschka animates his sitters." (Learn More! http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2002/brucke/)
  
• The Metropolitan-
  - September: 'Afghanistan' If you missed this exhibit when it was in DC, it is worth a look. Extraordinary objects of gold, statuary and ceramic spared from years of seige.
  - Thru October: 'Roxy Paine' on the Met roof. Stainless steel trees installed above the park make a nice juxtaposition. This is a beautiful place to end the day before you get on the bus.
  - October and November: 'Robert Franks; The Americans' is the first complete exhibition of the seminal "street" photographer's 1955-56 B+W documentation of a trip across the US. ...."Pablo Bronstein" creates a mythical version of the Met through drawings and installation. If you missed this exhibit in DC, don't miss it again (Learn More! http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2009/frank/index.shtm).....and, 'American Stories; Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915' is a 100 painting survey of quotidian activity from a Who's Who of american artists.
  - All Fall: "Vermeer; Milkmaid' puts one of Vermeer's best known paintings, on loan from Holland, in context with other Vermeers as well as his contemporaries from the Met collection....and 'Jain Manuscripts' reflect the development of a segment of Indian culture from 1200 to 1500. This exhbit preceeds the spring exhibit of the Limbourg Brothers manuscripts of the 'Tres Riche Heures." Both exhibits should be quite beautiful.
  
• The Whitney
  - September: 'Photoconceptualism' "focuses on works by conceptual artists of the late 1960s and early 1970s. During that time, photography became a favored medium (along with video) for art that placed more importance on concepts than on aesthetic and material concerns and rejected the necessity of the gallery or museum as a primary site of exhibition."...and 'Dan Graham:Beyond' " surveys the artist's career from the mid-1960s to the present. As one of contemporary art's most innovative and influential figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of many of the most significant developments in art, including conceptual art, video and film installation, performance, site-specific sculpture, and musical collaboration."
  - All Fall: 'Georgia O'Keefe: Abstraction' "The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by O'Keeffe as well as selected examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of O’Keeffe." The focus is on O'Keefe's abstract works, as the exhibit title suggests.
  
• The Frick Collection
  Asia Society…725 Park Ave @ 70th St (students $ 5) http://www.asiasociety.org/events/calendar.pl?filter_category=1...
• America's Society
• MIDTOWN:
  Museum of Arts and Design-
  - October and November: 'Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection' exhibit over 200 "pins, many of which Secretary Albright wore to communicate a message or a mood during her diplomatic tenure. The exhibition examines the collection for its historic significance as well as the expressive power of jewelry and its ability to communicate through a style and language of its own."...and ' Slash: Paper under the Knife' "takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms."
  MoMA....
  - September: 'James Ensor' "was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late nineteenth century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early twentieth" (Learn more! ; http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/07/06/090706_audioslideshow_jamesensor
  - September and October: 'Ron Arad; No Discipline' surveys the cutting edge work of this Israeli designer (Learn More! http://www.ronarad.com/)
  - October and November: 'Paul Seitsema' intermixes "ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and temporal range." (Learn More! http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/paul-sietsema/)....and 'New Photography 2009' "is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium"
  All fall: 'Compass in Hand' surveys 300 modern and contemporary drawings "In its exploration of diverse artistic tendencies at the turn of the twenty-first century, this exhibition proudly celebrates the panoramic state of drawing today".....and 'Monet's Waterlillies' from the collection resurface for the first time since 2004
  
• Museum of American Folk Art
  - October and November: ' Approaching Abstraction' "it is commonly assumed that contemporary self-taught artists work solely in a representational style, eager to engage in storytelling and personal memory. But while the narrative tradition often is a primary impulse, a significant number exhibit a tendency to be seduced by material, technique, color, form, line, and texture, creating artwork that omits or obscures representation."
  
• The International Center for Photography (ICP):
  September: 'Avedon Fashion 1944-2000' He "revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer." (Learn More! http://www.avedonfoundation.org/#p=-1&at=-1)....and 'John Wood;Quiet Protest' "explores political and social issues of the day through thoughtful photo montage pieces that exist in marked contrast to more traditional aggressive documentary photography. Rather than offering explanations or promoting solutions, Wood's manipulated photographs present contemplative routes into issues ranging from the Vietnam War to domestic gun violence to ecological concerns."
  October and November: 'Dress Codes: the Third Triennial of Photography and Video' "will mark the closing cycle of ICP's 2009 Year of Fashion, a series of projects that critically examine fashion and its relationship to art and other cultural and social phenomena. The theme of fashion encompasses a diverse range of practices and ideas, including explorations of identity and affiliation; the production, distribution, and consumption of images and goods; contemporaneity; age; gender; and global industry."
  

• SOHO and LOWER EAST SIDE:
  Drawing Center
  - All Fall: 'Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Moving World" "Morton’s work also looked to a pioneering use of personal narrative, intimacy, humor, and poetic imagination. Yet the scope of her artistic production remains largely unrecognized, as does her vital contribution to feminist art practice and the importance of drawing to her development as an artist." (Learn More! http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/ree_morton/ ...and http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4114&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1)
  Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection
  - All Fall: ' Icons From the Desert: Early Aborigonal Paintings' "In 1971, at Papunya, a government-established Aboriginal community in CentralAustralia, a Sydney-based schoolteacher provided a group of men with the tools and the encouragement to paint. Known as “Papunya boards,” these works constituted the beginning of the Western Desert art movement where indigenous Australian artists explore images and experiences in a new medium and on permanent surfaces."
  The New Museum
  - September: 'Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt' "documented the complexities and contradictions of South African society. His photographs capture the social and moral value systems that governed the tumultuous history of his country’s segregationist policies and continue to influence its changing political landscape. Whether showing the plight of black communities, the culture of the Afrikaner nationalists, the comfort of white suburbanites, or the architectural landscape, Goldblatt’s photographs are an intimate portrayal of a culture plagued by injustice."....and 'Rigo 23: The Deeper They Bury Me, the Louder My Voice Becomes' "For nearly 20 years, Rigo 23 has created murals, paintings, drawings, and performances, conducted interventions and published zines advocating for social and political change. His site-specific installation for the New Museum is the newest in a series of works that take as their subject political prisoners such as Leonard Peltier, Geronimo ji-Jaga [Elmer Pratt], Mumia Abu-Jamal [Wesley Cook], and the Angola 3."
  - November: 'Urs Fischer' "Zurich-born, New York-based artist Urs Fischer will be the first artist to take over the entire New Museum on the Bowery. For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum to date, Fischer will transform the New Museum's gallery spaces by creating a mesmerizing environment featuring towering monuments, tangled abstractions, and a labyrinth of mirrors."
  
• CHELSEA:
• Chelsea Art Museum

• QUEENS:
• PS1:
• BROOKLYN
  Brooklyn Museum
  
  BRONX:
  Bronx Museum:

Guggenheim Museum
 
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