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

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.



SPRING 2009 ArtsBus trip dates:
February 28, March 28 and April 18
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 , you may sign up for any of the three sections CRN# 14195, 14196 or 14197. If you need more than 1 credit, you may sign up for more than one section.

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-"Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China" The Tulou project incorporates 245 apartment units, a dormitory, a small hotel, shops, a gymnasium, a library, and various communal and public spaces. For the exhibition at Cooper-Hewitt, Urbanus will display two full-scale bedrooms, with additional areas of the unit outlined on the gallery floor and walls, in order for visitors to fully experience the spatial interior. Plus, beginning March 6, "Fashioning Felt" This exhibition will explore the varied new uses of felt—an ancient material, believed to be one of the earliest techniques for making textiles.
• The Jewish Museum- "Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theatre" Through paintings, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, film clips and theater ephemera - many of which have never been exhibited before- Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949 will capture an exhilarating but fleeting moment in the cultural history of the Soviet Union.
• The Guggenheim- "The Third mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1860-1989" lluminates the dynamic and profound impact of Asian art and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices of the late 19th century, early modern, and postwar avant-garde periods. The exhibition will feature approximately 260 works by 114 American and Asian-American artists
• National Academy - "American Waters: Celebrating 400 Years of Hudson, Fulton and Champlain
• Neue Galerie Museum-German and Austrian Art "Brucke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin 1905-1913"
• The Metropolitan- "Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade and Diplomascy in the Second millenium BC" This exhibition focuses on the extraordinary art created as a result of a sophisticated network of interaction that developed among kings, diplomats, merchants, and others in the Near East during the second millennium B.C. Approximately 350 objects of the highest artistry from royal palaces, temples, and tombs—as well as from a unique shipwreck—provide the visitor with an overview of artistic exchange and international connections throughout the period. From Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in the south to Thrace, Anatolia, and the Caucasus in the north, and from regions as far west as mainland Greece all the way east to Iran. PLUS "Pierre Bonnard; The Late Interiors" the 80 paintings, drawings, and watercolors on display date from the artist’s later years. PLUS "Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard" The dynamic installation of hundreds of American postcards drawn from Evans’s collection will reveal the symbiotic relationship between Evans’s own art and his interest in the style of the postcard.
• The Whitney " Synthetic" This exhibition explores how new synthetic products not only allowed for a new look but also aligned with subject matter to change the direction of postwar American art. PLUS "Elad Lassry; Three Films" an exhibition of this Los Angeles based artist who produces carefully crafted images in both photography and film. While often drawing on traditional photographic conventions, Lassry focuses his attention on the surfaces and histories of the objects and individuals he captures, asking the viewer to reassess even the most quotidian images. PLUS "Sites" This exhibition, drawn from the Whitney’s permanent collection, explores how the idea of sites allows for a more experiential role for the spectator as well the creation of new types of spaces, whose qualities might be unbound, drawn in, or otherwise made pliant by their creators. Pus, begining March 19: "Jenny Holzer; Protect Protect" A fifteen year survey exhibition of Jenny Holzer's pioneering approach to language as a carrier of content and her use of nontraditional media and public settings as vehicles for that content make her one of the most interesting and significant artists working today. Alternating between fact and fiction, the public and the private, the universal and the particular, Holzer's work offers an incisive social and psychological portrait of our times.
• The Frick Collection
• "Masterpieces of the Norton Simon Collection" The five featured paintings are Jacopo Bassano’s (Jacopo da Ponte, 1510–1592) Flight into Egypt, c. 1544–45; Peter Paul Rubens’ (1577–1640) Holy Women at the Sepulchre, c. 1611–14; Guercino’s (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591–1666) Aldrovandi Dog, c. 1625; Francisco de Zurbarán’s (1598–1664) Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633; and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s (1617–1682) Birth of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1655. None of these artists is represented in the Frick’s 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- The Museum has a brand new building at #2 Columbus Circle (59th St and 8th Ave, just on the West side of Central Park) 3 exhibits: "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary" combines prominent designers, Ingo Maurer and the Campana Brothers with prominent visual artists Tara Donavan, Al Anatsui and Do HO Suh. ALSO Prime examples from the collection. ALSO, "Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry" surveys work since the 1940's that look at the conceptual and formal applications of jewelry.
  MoMA "Performance 1:Tehching Hseih" Performance 1 focuses on Hsieh’s earliest performance, Cage Piece (1978-79), which involved the artist spending one year locked inside a cage constructed in his loft in New York City.
  
• Museum of American Folk Art Martin Ramirez; Ramirez commemorated in all of his works the landscapes of Mexico and northern California; he recorded the hardscrabble territory of immigration, of living between borders, countries, and cultures. Memory, immigration, dislocation, and isolation exist in each line of his drawings. PLUS Henry Darger; a showcase of eight of the nearly three hundred watercolors Henry Darger created to illustrate his 15,000-page manuscript The Story of the Vivian Girls PLUS “Ammi Phillips/Mark Rothko The Seduction of Light" includes large-scale canvases from Rothko's classic period of the 1950s and 1960s, when the paintings had already transcended representation and reached a purity of meaning held solely in color, texture, depth, and proportion. Phillips's greatest achievements are surveyed through masterpieces from 1815 through the 1830s. Without abandoning representation, the artist pushed the limits of portraiture well beyond the constraints of his time, presaging a modern sensibility and engaging with his materials to create gorgeous and encompassing fields of color.
  
• The International Center for Photography (ICP): "Susan Meiselas:In History" Documentary photographs that pivot on the relationship between the subject and the photographer cover three subject: "Carnival Strippers," "Nicaragua" and "Kurdistan" ALSO, America and the Tintype" surveys examples of the popular, affordable road to immoratalization for the masses from the 1860's. ALSO Cornell Capa, the "concerned photographer's" work from the mid 20th century that focused on social issues. ALSO "Living With the Dead: W Eugene Smith and WWll" chronicles the personal costs of war

• SOHO and LOWER EAST SIDE:
  Drawing Center "Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking" "For over three decades, New York-based artist Matt Mullican (b. 1951, Santa Monica, CA) has created a complex body of work concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Since the end of the 1970s, he has also conducted performances and created drawings while under hypnosis as a means to explore the nature of behavior, emphasizing the role of drawing in his attempt to understand, organize, and categorize experience. PLUS: "M/M (Paris): Just Like an Ant Walking on the Edge of the Visible" Rooted in an expanded conception of graphic design, M/M’s multi-disciplinary approach extends to artistic collaborations, product design, and commercial projects.
  Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection "The Poetics of Cloth" is an exhibit of African textiles, which are refered to by Ghanaian Artist Al Anatsui , "Cloth is to the African what monuments are to Westerners"
  The New Museum Elizabeth Peyton, “”Live Forever”; From her earliest portraits of musicians like Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, and Jarvis Cocker to more recent paintings featuring friends and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, and politics including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Matthew Barney, and Marc Jacobs, Elizabeth Peyton's body of work presents a chronicle of America at the end of the last century. A painter of modern life, Peyton's small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and even personal. Together, her works capture an artistic zeitgeist that reflects the cultural climate of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.
  
• CHELSEA:
• Chelsea Art Museum

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

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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::
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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:
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