CURRENT EXHIBITIONS: Galleries are Listed by District

The Current Exhibitions sections has undergone a face lift. You can "copy and paste" from the Artsbus Good Bets list below to customize your trip before you head to NYC.

The list is collated each month of our GMU semester from visiting over 350 gallery and museum websites, and contains exhibitions of particular interest, based upon subjective analysis and upon a known track record of certain artists and galleries. The list is intended to be instructive, and to reflect the broad currency of our visual arts curriculum at GMU.

Shows/Exhibits are organized by gallery district: Uptown, Chelsea and Soho. The galleries and their address are in bold type, and the artist's name and a brief description of each selected exhibit are included. Each exhibit has between one and three exclamation points, which refelects my personal enthusiasm for the show. But, your curiosity and interests may reflect differently.

You may link to specific galleries or museums at the links provided to the right of the "Good Bets" list.

So, enjoy your trip as a challenge and as an opportunity.

Peter Winant
Artsbus Director

Please link to "Getting Around NYC." for directions to gallery districts by use of the MTA system, and for general travel tips. You are advised to download and print these instructions before you board the bus.

SPECIAL EXHIBIT:!!
Francis Alys at the DIA at the Hispanic Society of America, on Broadway between 155 and 156 St
www.hispanicsociety.org

ARTSBUS/GOOD BETS for March 29, 2008
                        See great Art ! Have good fun !

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This month, the big news is centered around two major art events: The Whitney Biennial, and the Armory Show at the Chelsea docks. The Whitney Biennial is a large survey of the contemporary American art scene, and runs the gamut of media and styles. The Armory show is a mega-market of national, international and New York galleries showcasing their top talent….There’s lots of breadth, but not much depth. However, you will see work by almost every major player in the art world. For details, read more below in the “Museums” and “Chelsea Galleries” sections

MUSEUMS: listed from north to south UPTOWN: !! The !!Guggenheim…5th Ave and 89th St. (students $15) http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml
"Cai Guo-Quiang: I Want to Believe" The first major New York 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.
! The Neue Gallerie...86th and 5th Ave ($10 students)
"Gustav Klimt; The Ronald S Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections" has 8 paintings and 120 drawings. The exhibition features "The $135 million painting... "
!!!The Metropolitan…5th Ave and 82nd st. (donation) http://www.metmuseum.org "
"Gustave Courbet 1819-1877" is a major retrospective of the not quite Impressionist, pre-modernist PLUS; The New Galleries for Oceanic Art, PLUS; “Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions” 40 paintings and 40 drawings of influential landscape works. PLUS, "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; "Abstract Expressionist Drawings," PLUS; 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; "Jasper Johns: Gray" 120 paintings, reliefs drawings and prints of the Post Dada, Pop Artist's love affair with the nuances of gray, PLUS; "Radiance from the Rainforest: Featherwork from Ancient Peru" presents examples of luminous color and texture from compositions of feathers in adornment and clothing

!!! The Whitney… Madison Ave. and 75th St. (students $10) http://www.whitney.org
"THE 2008 BIENNIAL".... It's the show everyone loves to hate. This year's show of 81 emerging and established artists spans all media and addresses social and political space, and "fluid communication structures and systems." PLUS, "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.

MIDTOWN:
! Museum of Arts and Design…40 W 53rd St. ($8 students) http://www.madmuseum.org
"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.
!!! MoMA…11 W 53rd St. ($12 students,) http://www.moma.org
”Multiplex: Directions in Art 1970 to Now” is a survey from the museum’s collection that addresses Pluralism; the broad base of styles, media and artistic intent that has marked the past 40 years. PLUS; "Design and the Elastic Mind" focuses on the conversion of the disorienting tumult of modern technology into the culturally stabilizing objects and systems of design. PLUS; "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" surveys the shift from the personal pallete of hand ground pigments to the adoption of manufactured color as an aesthetic and philosophical choice. PLUS; "Jan de Cock: Denkmal" is an installation of floor to ceiling photographs of the museum's collection mounted on plywood modules.
!! International Center for Photography…1133 6th Ave @ 44th st. ($ 8 students) http://www.icp.org/
"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; "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:
!! The Grey Gallery of Art at NYU..100 Washington Sq. http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/
"Diebenkorn in New Mexico" Modern/Contemporary, Hopper inspired master painter's works done as a graduate student between 1950-52
!! The New Museum....235 Bowery
"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.

GALLERIES, free entry: Uptown, Midtown and 57th st. Districts: listed from north to south, and East to West Uptown galleries are situated along Madison Avenue, or right off it. They are often in imposing looking former mansions, and you will have to look for a gallery plaque, and push a buzzer to be let in. 57th St galleries are situated in office buildings between Park Ave and 6Th ave. Often, you will have to go by a doorman and get on an elevator to visit the galeries. Usually, there is a plaque at the entrance with the gallery names, as well as one by the elevators. Many galleries names are prominently in view in the windows of their second, third fourth and fifth floor spaces. The work in these galleries tends to be of very well established and late career artists.

NEAR THE WHITNEY: (and free!)
! Alan Stone…113 E 90th John Anderson; Assemblage sculpture made from driftwood and detritus
! Aquavella… 18 E 79th St. ”20Th Century Masters: Dubuffet, Oldenburg, Miro
! Mitchell Innes and Nash...1018 Madison Ave. ”American Abstraction” consists of examples of masters of the genre…paintings and drawings by Gorkey, Lichtenstein, Tworkow, de Kooning…
!! Land M Arts…45 E. 78th TianBing Li; self portraits of the artist as a young boy, derived from photographs include the presence of an imaginary self, who grows older as the work progresses
!! Castelli…18 E 77 Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi: Video paintings interface the painted surface with video projection of abstracted landscapes
!! Micheal Werner...4 E 77th Jamie Lee Byars; "Five Points Makes a Man" a posthumous performative exhibition of conceptually based work
!! Gagosian…980 Madison Ave Franz West; sculptural paintings from the 8o’s presage the new style of sculpture that collages everything, including the kitchen sink, and questions the meaning of meaning. PLUS; “Prefab” in the newly opened space down the hall from the main gallery…An excellent group of works by Artschwager, Koons, Alghiero E Boetti, Mike Kelly…
!!Craig F. Starr..5 E 73rd St. Jasper Johns and Georges Seurat drawings
!!Knoedler...19 E 70th St. Ann Craven; “Moon Birds” paintings of birds and the moon transit representation and abstraction
!! Zwirner and Wirth….52 E 69th St. Dan Flavin’s groundbreaking 1964 “Green Gallery” exhibition is re-installed. Common household and industrial fluorescent lights take on an identity as art.

57th Street Galleries:
! Bonnie Benrubi…41 E 57th Massimo Vitali; large scale color photographs of groups of people at leisure, on the beach, at ski resorts and other public venues
!! Howard Greenburg...41 E 57th ”Photographers of Japanese Descent” 1920 to present
!! PaceWildenstein….32 E 57th  Tony Feher; new sculpture uses items from our “throw away” culture to create work that “Soars with personality, humor and catharsis”

! Forum Gallery…745 5th Ave. (above 57th St. and 5th Ave.) Brian Rutenburg; lush, colorful abstract paintings based on landscapes PLUS Robert Bauer’s realist portraits recall Renaissance composition and technique!!
!! Houk… 745 5th Ave Joel Meyerowitz; Photographs from a series on the  elements… This group centers on water, specifically a swimming pool; the swimmers and the water become formal elements
!Mary Boone…745 5th Ave. (above 57th St….) Liu Xiadong; large scale paintings use landscape, animals and humans to ponder life and death !! Marian Goodman…24 W 57th Eija-Liisa Ahtila “Where is Where?” Finnish video and media artist’s narrative work
 

Chelsea District : listed from south to north The Chelsea district has over 250 galleries located between 19th St and 29th, and 10th and 11th avenues. You'll find emerging and established artists, and cutting edge as well as traditional work.

W 13th St
!!Sperone Westwater…# 415 Bruce Nauman; drawings for installations

W17th St
!! Murray Guy...#453 Mathew Buckingham; Videos "False Future" riffs on the film originator, Louis Le Prince's bad luck, and "Everything I Need" recounts Charlotte Wolff's return from exile to Berlin in 1978

W 19th St.
!! Postmasters.# 459 Diana Cooper; neo-assemblage sculpture and reliefs, plus intricate, diagramatic drawings
!!!David Zwirner….#525 Christopher Williams tongue-in-cheek photographs PLUS Marcel Dzama's innocent appearing, but often Hellish illustrations and sculptures

W 20th St.
!! Jack Shainman…#513 Subodh Gupta; realist paintings of used pots and pans, and large figurative sculptures made from bronze and antique utensils
@ #529 W 20th St: (14 galleries are in this building)
   !! Bitforms C.E.B. Reas; Computer assisted drawings…one of the most consistently excellent, media based galleries in New York
    !! Bienvenue Juan Manuel Echevarria; photographs that document a Columbian cemetery where anonymous victims of the drug trade are interred and cared for by adopted patrons who care for thei graves in exchange for favors from the dead.
    !! Hasted Hunt... Paola Ventura; “Winter Dreams” photographs of a meticulously constructed model of an Italian circus town
!!! Maya Stendhal…545 ”From Fluxus to Media Art” traces the history of media in art with examples rom Jonas Mekas to Shigeko Kubota

W 21st St.
!! Tanya Bonakdar…#521Tomas Saraceno;  large scale installation and sculptural works of intricate, web-like constructions
!! Gagosian…#522
!! Paula Cooper... #534 Dan Walsh; minimal, constructed paintings explore the possibilities of the flat picture plane
!! Eyebeam Gallery…# 540 (fee/donation) This gallery is new media central, sponsoring internships and a wide array of media based exhibitions

W 22nd St.
!! Mathew Marks …#522 Jasper Johns; Pop Art pioneer and neo Dadaist's drawings from 1997 to 2007
!! Mathew Marks …#526 Robert Gober; enigmatic, narrative sculptural installations question the relationship between our personal and cultural values
@ # 535 W 22nd St. (10 galleries are in this building)
    !! Tonkonow… Amy Cutler; known for her not-so-innocent illustrations of a woman’s world, the work this time is a sculptural installation,”Alterations” of 120 cast and painted figures 
!!! Pace Wildenstein…# 545

.W 23rd St.
!! Paula Cooper…#465 Meg Webster; abstract "paintings " made from wood ash and soil
!! Perry Rubinstein…#527 Ry Fyan; symbolist paintings employ many styles to evoke uncertainty, utopia and dream like worlds
!! Pavel ZoubOk…#533  Leslie Hirst; small works use four and five leaf clovers, enamel and resin in prismatic and geometric compositions

W 24th St.
!! Marian Boesky…509 Alexander Ross; Large scale, surreal paintings evoke Playdough landscapes
!! Gladstone…. # 515 Andrew Wekua; figurative themed sculpture, prints and paintings transit representational and abstract styles to evoke various narrative possibilities
!Metro Pictures... #519 Sterling Ruby; funky ceramic emphasize process and question beauty and function
!! Mathew Marks...#523 Peter Hujar’s photographs document 2nd Avenue’s hard edged denizens from the 1970’s…
!! Zach Feuer….#530 Tamy Ben Tor; eccentric video works of made-up personalities with familiar, yet confusing national identities
!!! Luring Augustine…#531 George Condo; cartoon-ish characters populate this artist’s social critique in paintings
!!Mary Boone…# 541 Ai Weiwei; fantastical, large scale sculptures look like gaudy, fallen chandeliers
!! Gagosian…#555 Steven Parrino, Anselm Reyle, Yayoi Kusama; three distinct styles of painting are united by a common interest in transcendence

W 25th St.
!!!Pace Wildenstein… # 534 Lucas Samaras, “NYC Chairs” the always intriguing artist photo-documented chairs that he passed on his daily walks through mid and upper Manhattan, and then made alterations to the photographs to enhance their,”identities”
!! Cheim and Read..#547 McDermitt and McGough; “Because of Him” Paintings and sculptures look at women’s sacrifices for their lovers, as portrayed in American cinema

W 26th St.
!! International Print Center…#526 (room 824) 45 new works by 34 avant garde printmakers
!! Nicole Klagsbrun...#526 Rashid Johnson; plays upon inward and outward racial stereotypes in the vein of David Hammons. Works in a variety of media.
!!! Gallerie Lelong…#528 Angelino Filomeno; intricately embroidered “paintings” in silver and grey approach topics of death and religion, plus two sculpturs: a glass skeleton and a 13’ whip of glass leather and onyx
!!James Cohen…#533 Tabimo; Japanese artist’s 5 channel animated video uses public rest rooms as a metaphor for internet society
!! Mitchell Innes and Nash …#534 Chris Martin; large, abstract paintings play with shifting figure and ground relationships
!! Lehman Maupin…#541 Ashley Bickerton; large scale photographs of surreal hula girls and castaways set in 7”thick frames crafted in wood, cocunut shell, mother of pearl and coin inlay
! Roebling Hall… #606 Doug Young; sculpture of levitating tires.. and more

W 27th St.
! Paul Kasmin…#293 10th ave and #511 27th Andy Warhol; drawings.
! Aperture…# 547 Mathew Sleeth; “Ten Series” is a group of everyday subjects, world-wide taken by a roving Australian PLUS, “In Almost Every Picture” is an exhibition of collected photographs that look at twins, Europe in the 40’s a dog and its owner, among other topics.
!!Flomenhaft...#547 Miriam Schapiro; pioneer feminist artist's new work

W 29th St
!!! Sean Kelly…#528 Los Carpinteros; Cuban collaborative group constructs social commentary in sculpture

SoHo District : refer to map handout! The Soho district is bordered (north/south) by Houston and Canal Sts. and ( east/west) by Lafayette and Hudson- Once the most vibrant art scene in the world, many of SoHo's gallerists moved to Chelsea. Still, there are some excellent galleries here, including the Swiss Institue, Spencer Brownstone, Drawing Center, Artist Space, Feldman, Deitch Projects and the nearby Grey Gallery at NYU
! OK Harris...383 WEST Broadway Five revolving spaces focus on emerging artists engaged in traditional media usuing traditional and untraditional styles…always worth a look
!! Nancy Hoffman…429 WEST Broadway David Bierk; gorgeous paintings of classical themes of landscape and still life
!! Ronald Feldman….31 Mercer St. Eleanor Antin, “Helen’s Odyssey” consists of photographs of elaborate “stage settings” which approach Homer’s work from a feminine perspective
!! Location One…26 Greene St Tracey Moffat “Social Edit” three films by Australian media pioneer that critique the roles that society imprints on us, focusing on gender and race
!! Artists Space...#28 "Nina in Position" is an exhibition of "Post Sculpture" objects that challenge heirarcies and authority..."How social and geopolitical change occurs at a local level."
!! Deitch Projects… 18 Wooster ”Substraction” a curated exhibition of contemporary abstract painting
!!The Drawing Center….35 Wooster "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.
!!Spencer Brownstone…39 Wooster Martin Whorl; visually striking abstract sculpture and collage made from recycled materials, and common materials found at the likes of Home Depot
! Peter Blum…99 Wooster Simon Frost; Ethereal, geometric based prints, drawings and paintings
!! Deitch Projects…76 Grand Noble and Webster; “Polymorphous Perverse” plays off Freud’s notions, and features a sculpture/worktable with little figures, whose unsavory behaviors are mechanically set off by sensors as you move around thr room.
 TEAM …83 Grand Bernard Martin; German artist’s paintings and sculptures confront notions of “good taste,” asking not “what are we looking at?” but, “Why?”
 

Allow yourself plenty of time to:

BE AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM BY 7:00 ( 82nd and 5th Ave.) for a 7:30 departure

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Gallery	Address	Artist	Exhibit
NOTE: * denotes shows of special interest	Galleries are listed by streets. Address numbers go from 10th Ave. towards 11th Ave.	Chelsea now has over 240 galleries	Exhibits change monthly
BELOW 20Th ST :
Murray Guy	453 W 17th st.
Sperone Westwater	415 W 13th St
Axis Gallery	453 W 17th St
Alexander and Bonin *	132 W 10th Ave
Bellwether *	134 10th ave.
Cohan and Leslie*	138 10th ave.
The Kitchen	512 W 19th
Postmasters	459 W 19th
David Zwirner **	525 19th
20th STREET GALLERIES:
Shainman	513 W 20th
ACA	529 W. 20th
I-20 **	529 W 20th
Denise Bibro	529 W. 20th
Bitforms**	529 W 20th
Bienvenue	529 W 20th
Dorfman Projects	529 W 20th
Andrew Edlin	529 W 20th
Kim Foster	529 W. 20th
Elizabeth Harris	529 W 20th St.
Jonathan LeVine *	529 W 20th
Ricco Maresca	529 W 20th
Remy Toledo	529 W 20th
Skoto	529 W 20
Anton Kern	532 W 20th St.
Feigen Contemporary	529 W 20th
Eyebeam **	540 w 21st
Maya Stendhal *	545 W 20
21st STREET GALLERIES
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery	521 W 21st
Kravets Wehby	521 W 21st
Paula Cooper **	521 and 534 W 21st
Matthew Marks	521 W. 21st St.
Gagosian	522 W 21st
Yvonne Lambert	550 W 21st
Jessica Murray	150 11th Ave
22nd STREET GALLERIES
Taxter and Spengman	504 W 22nd
Max Protetch *	511 W 22nd
D'amelio Terras	525 W 22nd
Mathew Marks *	522 W 22nd .
303	525 W 22nd
Mathew Marks *	526 W 22nd
Sikkema Jenkins	530 W 22nd
Sonnabend *	536 W.22nd St.
DIA	548 W. 22nd	Closed
CRG Gallery	535 W 22nd
Susan Inglett	535 W 22nd
Federich Petzel	537 W 22nd   535 W 22nd
Yancy Richardson *	535 W 22nd
Julie Saul	535 W 22nd
Federike Taylor	535 W 22nd
Tonkonow *	535W 22nd. St.
Pacewildenstein*	545 W 22nd St.
Chelsea Art Museum	556 W 22nd
New Museum ofContemporary Art	556 W. 22nd
23rd STREET GALLERIES
Heidi Cho	522 W. 23rd St.
Perry Rubenstein*	527 W 23rd
Pavel Zoubok *	533 W 23rd
Daniel Reich	537A W 23rd
Goff and Rosenthal *	537 B W 23rd
Caren Golden	539 W 23rd
BUIA	541 W 23rd
HaswellEdiger & Co.	465 W 23rd
24th STREET GALLERIES
Marianne Boesky	509 W 24th
Gladstone *	515 W 24th St.
Metro Pictures	519 W 24th
Matthew Marks *	523 W. 24th St.
Stellan Holm *	524 W 24th St,
Andrea Rosen *	525 W. 24th St.
Perry Rubenstein*	526 W24th
Luhring Augustine *	531 W.24th
Zach Feuer/LFL **	530 W 24th
Danese **	535 W 24 6th floor
Reeves Contemporary *	535 W 24th		"
Charles Cowles *	537 W 24th
Mary Boone *	541 W 24th
DCKT	552 W 24th
Gagosian	555 W 24th
25th STREET GALLERIES
Margaret Thatcher	511 W 25th	\	\
798 Avant Gallery	511 W 25th
Derek Eller	526 W 25th	\	\
Feature Inc	530 W 25th
Stux Gallery	530 W 25th St.
Clamp Art *	531 W 25th	\	\
Pacewildenstein *	534 W 25th St.	\	\
Kent *	541 W 25th St.
Betty Cunningham *	541 W. 25th St.	\	\l
Cheim and Read **	547 W. 25th St
Yossi Milo	552 W 25th St.
Gallery Henoch	555 W 25th
PPOW*	555 W 25th
Yvon Lambert	564 W 25th
B/25th and 26th
Robert Mann	210 11th ave. (10th fl.)
Chambers Fine Art	210 11th Ave
Fischbach Gallery	210 11th Ave.
Lemmons Contemporary	210 11th Ave.
Edward Thorp *	210 11th Ave.
Max Lang	229 10th Ave.
26th STREET GALLERIES
Lucas Schoorman	508 W 26th
Greene Naftali	508 W 26th
Rare	521 W 26th
Danziger Projects *	521 W 26th
Robert Miller *	524 W 26th St
George Adams	525 W 26th
Nicole Klagsbrun	526 W. 26th
LMAK	526 w 26th
David Krut Fine Art	526 W 26th
GR N'Namdi	526 W 26th
Gallerie Lelong	528 W. 26th St.
Lombard Freid	531 W 26th
James Cohan *	533 W 26th St.
Mitchell Innes and Nash *	534 W 26th St.
International Print Center	26th St. Betwen 10th and 11th Aves.
Lehman Maupin *	540 W 26th
Tony Shafrazi *	544W.26th St.
School of the Visual Arts	601 W 26th St.
Bryce Wolkowitz	601 W 26th
Roebling Hall *	606 W 26th
27th STREET GALLERIES
Paul Kasmin *	293 10th Ave. 511 W 27th
Art Gotham	547 W 27th st.
Flomenhaft *	547 W 27th St
Ceres	547 W 27th
Foley Gallery *	547 W 27th
Wallspace	547 W 27th
M.Y. Art Prospects	547 W 27th
Aperture **	547 W 27th
Foxy Production	617 W 27th
28th STREET GALLERIES
JG/Contemporary	505 W. 28th St.
29th STREET GALLERIES and ABOVE
Peter Blum	526 W 29th
Briggs Robinson	527 W 29th
Sean Kelly **	528 W 29th
Alona Kagan	540 W. 29th St.
EXIT ART	475 10th Ave.(B/ween 36th and 37th St)

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Uptown Galleries are between 69th and 90th sts. along Madison Avenue and either side of Madison beteen Park and 5th Aves. like 57th st. these galleries are often in office buildings, or in stately town houses. You may have to ring a bell to gain entrance, but don't be put off. These galleries are open to the pulic and free. Most of the artists represented by these galleries are internationally recogmized, highly established and sometimes already deceased.