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Dark Paradise
at The Clocktower Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Feb 05, 13 - Apr 01, 13

This exhibition of photography, video and collages – both by well-known and emerging artists - demonstrates contemporary dialogue and storytelling through landscape imagery. The artists either engage physically with the landscape, or capture in poetic traces of the past within historically charged places.

The exhibition developed out of a fascination for tracking the tradition of inspiring landscapes in contemporary images, a genre that developed in painting in the late 18th century. All the works in the exhibition exclude human figures and evoke feelings of an undefined presence of the past, or of a world still undiscovered. read more...

Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn - New York, NY, USA
Feb 08, 13 - Aug 04, 13

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This is a first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui. This exhibition features over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures.

Anatsui converts materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction. The exhibition represents a cross-cultural journey through Africa, Europe and the Americas and creates a new medium in African art.

The exhibition includes twelve recent monumental wall and floor sculptures widely considered to represent artistic peak of Anatsui’s career. The metal wall works, created with bottle caps from a distillery in Nsukka, are pieced together to form a colorful, hanging wall-piece that take on new shapes with each installation. read more...

Fore
at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Harlem - New York, NY, USA
Nov 11, 12 - Mar 10, 13

Fore presents twenty-nine emerging artists of African descent who live and work across the United States. The artists in Fore work in diverse media, often blending artistic practices in new and innovative ways that often correspond with Harlem and its social landscape. While some artists create large-scale oil paintings, others draw on top of photographs, or combine sculpture and two-dimensional work. More than half of the works in Fore have never been exhibited publicly.

This exhibition examines the social, political and cultural conditions in the United States through gathering and assembling everyday objects, referencing urban architecture and economies, and using film and video to mirror the influence of social media.  The exhibition emphasizes that contemporary art is deeply tied to its location, time and historical context. read more...

Ed Atkins
at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Long Island City - New York, NY, USA
Jan 20, 13 - Apr 01, 13

Known for his high-definition videos that defy narrative conventions, Ed Atkins works with filmic and text-based forms in technological transition. The exhibition—Atkins’s first solo show in the United States—features two-channel video and surround-sound installation Us Dead Talk Love (2012), which focuses on a dialogue between two corpses who reflect upon representation, immanence, and narcissism.

Also on view is the single-channel video Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths (2013). Made using a number of technologies, including Microsoft Kinekt motion-capturing device and Faceshift animation software, the work depicts an unidentified character who appears to be residing at the bottom of the ocean. The character recites “The Morning Roundup,” a poem by the American writer Gilbert Sorrentino, whose shifting perspectives highlights the video’s attempt to describe things that are indescribable. read more...

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Feb 26, 13 - May 27, 13

Artists were among the first to see fashion as a vital expression of modern life. This thrilling show chronicles the circular flow of life and art. With its mixture of paintings, garments and accessories — everything 19th-century French or inspired thereby – it builds webs of new information and views around some of the best-known paintings of all time.

For starters, both of the surviving panels of Claude Monet’s “Luncheon on the Grass” — cut into pieces when it wasn’t finished in time for the 1866 Salon — are being shown together in this exhibition for the first time, lent by the  in Paris.

The exhibition also examines the prominent roles women always play in culture, and it is worth noting that 10 of the 15 contributors to the catalog are women. read more...

Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show

at Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Arts Center
Lower East Side - New York, NY, USA
Feb 17, 13 - Apr 07, 13

At the 1913 Armory Show, the Association of American Painters and Sculptors showcased the "New Spirit" of modern art. The scornful criticism that followed showed how puzzled the general American public was by the seeds of abstraction in the cubist artworks, which quickly became an expression for the structural changes brought about by modernity. They not only redefined artistic practice, but also altered our understanding of the process through which we perceive the world.

DECENTER celebrates the legacy of the cubist paintings and sculptures in the 1913 Armory Show by featuring a group of 27 emerging and internationally recognized contemporary artists who explore the changes in perception precipitated by our digital age. read more...

Simone Forti: King's Fool
at The Museum of Modern Art
Midtown - New York, NY, USA

Preformances date and times:

March 6th & 7th at 3:00pm & March 8th at 5:00pm 

Los Angeles–based artist Simone Forti is one of the key figures of the 1960s minimalist dance movement who defined a new language of physical movement. In this new work, Forti plays with one of her ongoing projects, News Animations, which she developed in the 1980s. In News Animations, the imagery and language of newspaper is translated into a movement composition. Patters of language and body motion interweave with the vision of the world brought to us by the news media. read more...

Matisse: In Search of True Painting
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Dec 04, 12 - Mar 17, 13

Henri Matisse was one of the most acclaimed artists working in France during the first half of the 20th century, but painting had rarely come easily to Matisse. Throughout his career, he questioned, repainted, and reevaluated his work. This show demonstrates his need to progress methodically from one painting to the next. By painting the same subject multiple times he was able to reveal things he previously had not seen before, practice different techniques, and create a scale of work to test his progress. The exhibition features forty-nine colorful paintings from early 1900s throughout WWII. read more...

Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
at Whitney Museum of American Art
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Feb 28, 13 - Jun 02, 13

DeFeo is best known for her monumental painting The Rose, (now in the Whitney’s collection), which she spent eight years making and which was later hidden behind a wall for two decades. DeFeo created a diverse range of works for four decades. Her unconventional approach to materials and intensive, physical process made her a unique figure in postwar American art.

DeFeo passed away in 1989 at only 60 years old. The full breadth of her work will be presented in this exhibition of more than 130 objects. This astonishing array of collages, drawings, paintings, photographs, small sculptures, and jewelry gives an in-depth view of  DeFeo’s extraordinary vision. read more...

Gutai: Splendid Playground
at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Feb 15, 13 - May 08, 13

The first large, in-depth exhibition devoted to Gutai, Japan’s postwar art movement. This mind-shifting exhibition displays 100 works of paintings, sculpture, drawings, installation art, film and performance.

Formed in 1954, the Gutai Art Association stressed the importance of uninhibited individual actions as a way to counter the passivity and conformity that enabled the country’s militarist government to become so powerful and militaristic in the previous decades.  

In its own way, Gutai wanted to help rebuild democracy by both demonstrating and encouraging symbolic acts of independence. The idea of art as a mean of liberation was a serious component of his thought. Its members used their feet, robots and fire to make paintings, continually pushing the medium’s boundaries. Other works called on viewers to act. read more...