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Sol LeWitt – LES
As of this past Tuesday, a collection of 120 photographs of New York’s Lower East Side taken by Sol LeWitt in 1979 has been installed on the side of the Mondrian SoHo. It is a permanent installation, so you can take a stroll there anytime. The hotel partnered with the Paula Cooper Gallery on the project.
THIRTYDAYSNY
THIRTYDAYSNY is a celebration of arts and culture within a live gallery space that is open to the public for one month in the heart of New York City. The gallery is curated by Family Bookstore and will feature weekly performances, symposiums, and showcases from contemporary artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers from all over the world.
70 Franklin Street, Tribeca, NYC
Helmut Smits
Check out the work of the multidisciplinary Dutch visual artist Helmut Smits. We love ‘The Real Thing’ an installation to filter Coca-Cola into clean drinking water and ‘Full-Colour’ which was made from CMYK soft drinks dispensed in jerrycans.
Alfred Dunhill Installation
With their first mark on the city, Alfred Dunhill held an installation recreating his London mansion, Bourdin House, in the Meatpacking District of New York City. Open for 7 days starting on February 11th, this coincided neatly with fashion week, and was a one-off chance to see designer Kim Jones a/w collection.
Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter
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
Christian Marclay: 2822 Records
Art you can walk on: Christian Marclay’s installation plasters a whole floor of Moma’s PS1 with twelve-inch records of all different genres.
On view September 5, 2009 - April 5, 2010
Aakash Nihalani
We love the work of New York based artist Aakash Nihalani, who creates trompe l’oeil 3-D boxes using tape on sidewalks and public surfaces - working predominately with isometric rectangles and squares. He creates these installations in daylight and makes videos of the process, relatively untroubled, due to the fact that his artwork is easily pealed off unlike spray paint. With his work he hopes to “highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometery of the city itself” and “give people a chance to step into a different New York than they are used to seeing”.
Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool at PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Erlich has constructed one of his most well known and critically acclaimed works in PS1’s Duplex gallery: a full-size pool, complete with all its trappings, including a deck and a ladder. When approached from the first floor, visitors are confronted with a surreal scene: people, fully clothed, can be seen standing and walking beneath the surface of the water. It is only when visitors enter the gallery from the basement that they recognise that the pool is empty, its construction a visual trick fashioned by the artist. A large, continuous piece of acrylic spans the pool and suspends water above it, creating the illusion of a standard swimming pool that is both disorienting and humorous.
Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool will be on view in P.S.1’s Duplex gallery until October 24, 2009
Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect
Check out this fifteen-year survey exhibition of the artist known for her innovative approach to language and use of nontraditional media. Our favourites are her characteristic LED sign works, which thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, include manipulations and projections of government documents. ‘Protect Protect’ will be lighting up the Whitney until May 31st 2009.
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, T (212) 570-3600
Yayoi Kusama at The Gagosian Gallery
New and recent works by the renowned doyenne of the Japanese art world, currently celebrating her 80th year in the business. Kusama is known for her trippy anti-minimalist installations, sculptures, and screen prints frequented by giant polka dots, sealike figures, and sexy yet childlike objects such as mushrooms and chunky shoes. Our highlight of the exhibition is the mind-blowing installation (pictured) nicknamed the “Infinity Room”—a seemingly gigantic void filled with mirrors and floating lanterns.
April 16 - June 27th 2009
555 W 24th St, New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011