Lee Bontecou at Freedman Art

Lee Bontecou: Mobiles

Lee Bontecou, whose work was most recently seen in New York City at a retrospective at the sadly departed MoMA/Queens in 2004 and at MoMA proper in 2010, now has a small gem of a show at Friedman Art just off Madison Avenue at 73d Street in the Upper East Side, for the moment at least a locus of innovation and inspiration among the endless boutiques thereabouts which now seem mostly trapped in 1920s retro. The show will be there until February 11th.

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George Kuchar At MoMA-PS1

George Kuchar: Jersey Devil

George Kuchar's Pagan Rhapsody, a show of video, film, cartooning and painting designed by the artist before his death earlier this year, has come to MoMA-PS1 in Long Island City. Read about it here...

Ryan Trecartin's 'Any Ever' at MoMA/PS1

I have now done four tours through Ryan Trecartin's Any Ever installation at PS1, and just as you should have gone to the Alexander McQueen show, so you should go to this one, although it's a lot easier to get into, being in down-home-yet-hip Long Island City rather than the Met. Read about it here....

Alchemy & Inquiry

by Donna Maria deCreeft

Fred Tomaselli: Dahlia

Wave Hill, with its botanical gardens and transcendental views of the Hudson, is the perfect venue for this fascinating exhibition by Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli and Terry Winters. Sharing the idea of artist as magus or shaman, Taaffe, Tomaselli and Winters each manifest something unique about the Anima Mundi, or soul of the world. They manage to encompass and encode a long tradition of humanism in their work within individual stylistic techniques, uses of media and decorative patterning. The keys to their code are found in the connections between science and nature in terms of the microcosm and the macrocosm, the archetypal symbolism of the alchemical process, and the fractal dimension of Chaos theory.

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Facetime #2

at Parker's Box

This last April, Parker's Box, a gallery at 193 Grand Street in 'downtown' Williamsburg hosted an interesting cross between paper art (drawings and watercolors), video, and one might say performance art in 'Facetime #2', one of a series of two-person shows in which the artists are invited to reflect one another's work. Read about it here ....

Byzantine splendor and Attic sense of form have appeared on Spring Street in Manhattan. Read about Eleni Papageorge's new show here ....