Leo Fitzpatrick at Half Gallery

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With a launch in the middle of New York fashion week, Leo Fitzpatrick shows collages of book inserts, both humorous and dark, at the Half Gallery until March 12th.

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Damien Hirst – End of an Era

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Damien Hirst arrives stateside with an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures at New York’s Gagosian Gallery. Having recently announced the end of the various series for which he has become known over the last twenty years, including the spot, spin and butterfly paintings, Hirst makes reference to the seachange in his own work with the exhibition’s title. ‘End of An Era’ runs until the 6th of March, 2010.

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Stuart Haygarth at Haunch of Venison

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Mayfair gallery, Haunch of Venison, is staging its first exhibition of British artist and designer Stuart Haygarth with an exhibition called ‘Found.’ The show examines his ongoing relationship with abandoned objects and his fascination with taxonomy through a series of new furniture works, lamps and chandeliers.

Closing Jan 30, 2010

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Friends With You

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Art collective Friends With You unveiled their new flagship boutique to coincide with Art Basel Miami, located at 3930 NE 2nd Avenue Suite 202, Miami. There you’ll find a host of brand new limited edition products, including clothes, toys, prints, and fine art in their whimsical and inimitable style.

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032c – Industrial Light Magic

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Berlin based art and culture magazine 032c has just launched their new issue (their 18th to date) to coincide with their first New York exhibition. The issue is dedicated to Thomas Demand and includes a portfolio and theoretical discussion of the artist’s work, amongst their usual mix of unpredictable features and ironic approach to fashion. Until 18.12.2009

www.032c.com

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity

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This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus was a hotbed of creative thinking, re-examining all the ways of modern life, and influencing everything from architecture to fashion, from painting to furniture-making. This ambitious survey of over 400 works dissects the Bauhaus movement through exhibits, a “lounge,” and hands-on art-making workshops. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Josef Albers, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.

November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010

www.moma.org

Lubalin Now

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The pioneering designer Herb Lubalin (1918-1981) is famed for wildly expressive typography and groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros and Fact.

On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, this installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that illuminate Lubalin’s continuing influence in contemporary design.

The exhibition will also mark the debut of newly relocated The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, situated in the college’s new state-of-the-art academic building at 41 Cooper Square.

Exhibition dates: November 5- December 8, 2009

41 Cooper Gallery

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Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter

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The New York Based bookstore Printed Matter is the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists. This exhibition, on view in the Third Floor Archives at PS1, shows examples of its publishing history from 1976 to present, featuring more than 100 international artists.

On view October 8, 2009 - January 4, 2010

www.ps1.org

Gagosian Store - New York

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New York’s Gagosian Gallery has recently opened their first retail space in the city at 988 Madison Avenue. The space will feature all Gagosian exhibition publications, artist editions, poster, and prints and limited edition items by well renowned designers & artists, such as  Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Cecily Brown, Marc Newson, and Jeff Koons. In line with the gallery, the store will collaborate with both established and emerging artists on exclusive works that will be available in the shop and online.

988 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10075 , +1 212 744 9200

Emory Douglas: Black Panther

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Emory Douglas, minister of culture and activist for the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s, invented a bold graphic style to transmit his party’s militant agenda. Over two decades Douglas created countless artworks, illustrations, and cartoons, of which over 165 are displayed here, and 40 years on they remain just as powerful and arresting as when he first created them.

Until 18th October 2009

New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

www.newmuseum.org

Kehinde Wiley

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Head to Deith Gallery’s second space on Grand Street, New York, for their presentation of works by Kehinde Wiley. Wiley, an African-American artist, is know for his spectacular and surreal paintings of contemporary hip hop trend setters. For this exhibition, his subjects are again young black men in streetwear garb, but in a shuffle of his normal artistic process, Wiley has inserted photographs onto his trademark highly decorated wallpapery backgrounds with the help of digital manipulation.

September 03 to September 26, 2009

Deitch Gallery, 76 Grand Street, New York

www.deitch.com

Tauba Auerbach HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE

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Tauba Auerbach, opens her Here and Now/and Nowhere show at NYC’s Deitch Projects. Auerbach is known for her inventive twists on typefaces, creating magical new languages from the known English alphabet. Here and Now/and Nowhere, however, will feature more than just letter paintings and drawings; Auerbach will also be showcasing three-dimensional crumple paintings and fold paintings, as well as static photographs, and the show’s central piece.

September 03 — October 17, 2009 

Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, New York 

www.deitch.com

Simon Foxton ‘About a Boy’

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Men’s fashion is celebrated in stylist Simon Foxton’s outrageous and memorable shoots, created in partnership with long-time collaborators Nick Knight, Jason Evans and others.  ‘About a Boy’ is on at The Photographer’s gallery until the 4th October - one of the gallery’s first major exhibitions to be held at its new venue. 

The Photographer’s Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW

www.photonet.org.uk

Partners & Spade

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The brain-child of Andy Spade (yes, Kate’s husband) and Anthony Sperduti, Partners & Spade is part art gallery part novelty shop that serves as a front for the duo’s brand consulting firm during the week. A treasure trove of curious goods and inspirations cover every available surface: while certain miscellanea are displayed in aged wooden cabinets other knick-knacks are stashed in pull-out drawers. Merchandise ranges from $1 bouncy balls to a $75,000 antique book of botanical drawings. Mixed in with the products are rotating art exhibits - some pieces available for purchase, some not.

Partners & Spade, 40 Great Jones Street, between Bowery and Lafayette Street, New York NY. T 646 861 2827. Open Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

www.partnersandspade.com