There is a nice show at Colalex Gallery opening Saturday. The Wonderful Colors Of Black And White features the work of five photographers, illustrators and painters. It is nice to see interesting, quality shows moving uptown.
The Wonderful Colors Of Black And White Colalex Gallery
1695 Lexington @ 106th St.
Anthony Miler is a great man. And a great artist. He will go down in history as one of the most important minds of the 21st Century. Come to his MFA Thesis Show and meet him while he is young.
Marcel Dzama has a new show at David Zwirner. Even The Ghost Of The Pastcontains his ubiquitous drawings, but it is the back room where the work gets interesting. His figures come to life in the form of three-dimensional dioramas, followed by a silent film with a real-life pianist providing the sound track. Dzama’s world is weird with a tint of earthy-brown, but I’m happy to have been invited to the party.
Marcel Dzama Even The Ghost Of The Past David Zwirner
519 W. 19th St
I am intrigued by the work of John Lees. He works and reworks his pieces over several years, giving them a “sense of presence” as well as a sense of time. I just wish he would work larger.
The Met is staging the first full retrospective in thirty years of French realist Gustave Courbet. Featuring 130 canvases, the show also “includes a selection of nineteenth-century photographs that relate to Courbet’s work, especially his landscapes and nudes”. It is a wonderful opportunity to see the work of this leader of early modernism.
I’m pretty intrigued to see how this show comes together. “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today” is now open at the MoMA. From the photographs it looks like a sure-thing for the family, but hopefully will hold something a little more for the rest of us as well.
“Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today” MoMA
53rd St. btwn 5th and 6th
Temporary Gallery, a very nice space on Allen Street, presents ‘Insinuations’, a group show with artists who “play with implied notions, giving greater extent to the joining of image and object”. The show runs March 5 – 23, with the opening scheduled for March 5 from 6-9PM.
INSINUATIONS
Temporary Gallery
102 Allen St.
btwn Broome and Delancey
March 5 – 23
Tim Noble and Sue Webster have installed a spectacular ‘Electric Fountain’ in Rockefeller Center. Consisting of 3,390 environmentally sound lights, the fountain looks and acts as water, running daily from 6:00AM to Midnight. At 35 feel tall, it is a nice spring replacement for the winter tree.
‘Electric Fountain’
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Rockefeller Center
February 27 – April 4
6:00AM – Midnight