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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
2008 ArtsBus trip dates:
FEBRUARY
23, MARCH 29 (sold out), APRIL 19
(sold out)
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:
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Guggenheim
Museum
General Info:
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Visit: about us to find out more
about the artsbus program.
We have made every effort to locate the proper copyright holders
of all images and texts on this website. In the event of an incorrect
identification or attribution, please contact us at pwinant@gmu.edu
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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