It comes that time again when I rub the sleep of summer group shows from my eyes, and prepare for the season’s new shows. Marathon viewings—akin to endurance performance, no?
In any case, this is my list of NYC exhibitions I’m planning to see before the season’s first turnover—you can track my miserably glacial progress by noting any strikethroughs below!
(in no particular order)
September 11 @ PS 1
Carrie Moyer @ Canada
This is Not My Color/The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People @ Swiss Institute
And Another Thing @ CUNY Graduate Center
insane huge group show @ Marianne Boesky
Mickalene Thomas @ Lehmann Maupin LES
Gabriel Orozco @ Marian Goodman
Marc Hunley @ Team Grand Street
Tris Vonna-Mitchell @ Metro Pictures
Social Media at Pace 510
Agnes Martin @ Pace 534
1107 Manhattan Ave @ Spencer Brownstone
Haim Steinbach @ Tanya Bonakdar
Keren Cytter @ Zach Feuer
Norfolk @ Thierry Goldberg
Petit Mort: Recollections on a Queer Public @ Forever & Today
Joe Grillo & the Dan Cameron-curated group show @ Allegra LaViola
Ian Pedigo @ Klaus Von Nichtsaggend
Sarah Crowner @ Nicelle Beauchene
Zipora Fried @ On Stellar Rays
Ry Rocklen @ Untitled
Sarah Greenberger Rafferty @ Rachel Uffner
Stacy Fisher, others @ Mixed Greens
Zak Kitnick @ Clifton Benevento
Alex Katz @ Gavin Brown
Luke Stettner @ Kate Werble
Sam Falls @ West Street
Perfect Man II @ White Columns
Jennie C Jones/Joe Winter @ The Kitchen
Nick Cave @ Jack Shainman
Demetrius Oliver @ D’Amelio Terras
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung @ Anna Kustera
Vik Muniz @ Sikkema Jenkins
Nicola Tyson @ Friedrich Petzel
Martha Wilson @ P.P.O.W.
N. Dash @ Nicole Klagsbrun
Crazy Lady (group show) @ Schroeder, Romero & Shredder
Adam Marnie @ Derek Eller
Jennifer Dalton @ Winkleman
Kris Chatterson @ Jeff Bailey
Gregory Green @ Regina Rex
Sanford Biggers @ Sculpture Center AND Brooklyn Museum
EAF 11 2011 Emerging Art Fellowship exhibition @ Socrates Sculpture Park
Keegan McHargue @ Frederic Freiser
Brian Jungen @ Casey Kaplan
Jordan Kantor @ Churner & Churner
Johannes Kahls @ Luhring Augustine
group show @ Laurel Gitlen
Meredyth Sparks @ Elizabeth Dee
Tamara Zahaykevich @ Kansas
Norm Paris @ The Proposition
Sterling Ruby & Lucio Fontana @ Andrea Rosen
MPA @ Leo Koenig
Eyes Wide Shut @ Vogt
Vlassis Caniaris @ Team Wooster St
Circa 1971: Early Video and Film from the EAI Archive @ Dia Beacon
Ida Ekblad @ Greene Naftali
Sadie Benning @ Participant
and before they close…
Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective @ The Studio Museum of Harlem
More than That: Kevin Jerome Everson @ Whitney (to spend more time with it)
group show @ Matthew Marks
I think….that’s everything (though it’s subject to change)…
MMM….no, there’s more!
Lisa Kirk @ Invisible Exports
Loren Munk @ Lesley Heller Workspace
Walking Forward, Running Past @ Art in General
Rosy Keyser @ Peter Blum
group show @ Marvelli
Muntadas @ Bronx Museum (!)