PICASSO AND MARIE-THÉRÈSE
L'AMOUR FOU
GAGOSIAN GALLERY
APRIL 14 - JUNE 25, 2011

You have an interesting face. I would like to do your portrait.
I have a feeling we will do great things together.--Pablo Picasso

via LUHRING AUGUSTINE is pleased to present Untitled (painting), a group exhibition of paintings by artists from both the United States and Europe. Included in the exhibition are: Tauba Auerbach, Bernard Frize, Wade Guyton, Albert Oehlen, Josh Smith, Daan van Golden, Charline von Heyl, Christopher Wool, Heimo Zobernig.

These artists and their works have in common an approach to painting that is conceptual and process driven. They are contemporaries who have contributed to the evolution of the medium of painting by using traditional and nontraditional methods of paint application to explore the many variations of the abstract mark. This exhibition is a snapshot of this moment in art making and offers an opportunity to contemplate their work together.

via GvDG Greenberg Van Doren Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper from 1949 – 1955 by Richard Diebenkorn (1922 – 1993). Organized in cooperation with the Estate of Richard Diebenkorn, this exhibition will feature thirty-sixworks many of which, until now, have only been seen in museum exhibitions including the 1988-89 MoMA show The Drawings of
Richard Diebenkorn and the Harwood Museum of Art’s Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico from 2007-08.

Diebenkorn’s early works from the late 40s through the mid 50s are among the finest examples of postwar American abstraction. Characterized by calligraphic lines and shifting fields of color, these works reflect both the broader interest in abstraction shared among many artists of the period and the diverse landscapes in which Diebenkorn lived during these years. Diebenkorn left Sausalito,
California in 1949 to pursue his graduate degree in art at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In 1952 he moved again to Urbana, Illinois to teach and then, in 1952, returned to California where he settled in Berkeley. Each new surrounding provoked a change in the artist’s palette and in the overall rhythm of his compositions.

GO SEE / PICTURES BY WOMEN
A HISTORY OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
THROUGH / MARCH 2011
AT THE / MOMA

via MoMA For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms, a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.

DELUXX FLUXX
BRINGS BACK THE VIDEO ARCADE
PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK

What do you get when Brooklyn-based duo Faile and collaborator Bast take over a disused store front on the Lower East Side? DELUXX FLUXX, a functional video arcade is will be open to the public from 3-11pm Tuesday through Sunday until May 27th.

Originally conceived as a one-off project in London, Deluxx Fluxx allowed Faile and Bast to indulge nostalgia for the classic video arcade while exploring the tactile possibilities of the wooden cabinet as sculptural medium. In its New York incarnation, the retrofitted machines run new games by Adapted Studio based on Faile and Bast's omnivorous visual language, with sounds produced by Seth Jabour of the noted band Les Savy Fav.

American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity is the first Costume Institute exhibition drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. It explores developing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940 and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition will reveal how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sexual emancipation. "Gibson Girls," "Bohemians," and "Screen Sirens," among others, helped lay the foundation for today's American woman.

If you enjoy the breathtaking work of Madame Grès, Molyneux, Charles James, Worth, Vionnet, and other pieces of très important fashion history– do make your way over to the Met for American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity. For those who can’t make it to the museum– we suggest browsing the COLLECTION DATABASE when you have some free time. Nothing like taking in the masters.

GO SEE / KATHERINE BERNHARDT
TOMBOUCTOU 52 JOURS
THROUGH / MAY 23RD 2010
AT / CANADA GALLERY

We picked the best camels, big reddish tan ones with long eyelashes and brightly colored tassels hanging from their bridles. The group was quiet as we finished packing our provisions, there was tension in the air, so unlike the laughing and chatting we were used to in the cafes in Casablanca and Tangiers.

As we started out the thrill was almost impossible to contain; all the preparation and talking were behind me as we headed into the Sahara desert: so still, clean and open. Malik the young guide and leader of our group had made the journey many times, but his manner was aloof and quiet so it was hard to feel anything other than alone around him.