Our summer of spoils continues as Richard Serra’s 40 Year Retrospective opens next week at the MoMA. Featuring numerous iconic pieces, plus three new sculptures, the show will occupy the 6th floor, part of the 2nd floor and the Sculpture Garden. You know you are a cultural icon when the MoMA specifies during its renovation that the floors be engineered to support your work.
Richard Serra
SCULPTURE: FORTY YEARS
June 3 – September 10
MoMA
11 W. 53 St.
Will it be another Basquiat Summer? Van de Weghe has a show of him up now, featuring works on paper from 1980-1988. To think, he would be 46 this summer.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
WORKS ON PAPER
May 5 – June 9
Van De Weghe Fine Art
521 W. 23rd St.
Sandy Winters has a fine new show of imaginary landscapes on view now at George Adams Gallery. Her surrealist, erotic work of a world-inside-a-world is well worth exploring.
Sandy Winters
IN MY BACKYARD
May 17 – June 23
George Adams Gallery
525 W. 26th St.
For his new piece at the Galerie Lelong, Andy Goldsworthy covered the walls with a smooth, white porcelain that over the course of a month will continually crack and peel, eventually falling in chuncks and littering the floor. It is brilliant, and easily the must-see show of the summer.
Andy Goldsworthy
White Walls
May 8 – June 16
Galerie Lelong
528 W. 26th St.
Artist Mike Quinn currently has a show up that is definitely worth checking out. God bless the next generation.
Mike Quinn
TRANSITION OFFENSE
10 May – 9 June, 2007
BUIA GALLERY
541 W. 23 St.
Ethan Andrews is the greatest living painter. Come see his MFA Thesis Exhibition (and if you’re really lucky, shake his hand).
May 7 – May 11
City College of New York
160 Convent Ave
Compton-Goethals Hall
room 135
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday May 10
6:00 – 8:00 PM