Cy Twombly will be eighty-one in April, but he is still turning out impressive and intelligent work. His newest series, “The Rose,” consists of five panels, each twenty-four feet long, on which are painted “three open roses in bleeding shades of red, orange, yellow, or purple, with a curtain of dripping paint that gives them a dewy, life-like quality.” The piece will be on view at Gagosian in London through May 9th.
Julianne Swartz’s sound piece at Josee Bienvenu Gallery is very well done. Using over a hundred speakers that “emit hums and hushed whispers, the piece emanates sounds reminiscent of stormy weather, blowing leaves or a gentle wind. ” It is both soft and strong.
Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art in Brooklyn presents Ingenious Methodology, a group photography show that explores “traditional and non-traditional forms of black and white and color photography using various media to express the photographic image.” Thirteen artists are featured, including Chuck Kelton, Shelton Walsmith, Cesare Bedogne and Gina Fuentes Walker.
The New Museum has announced details for The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, the first edition of its new triennial. Fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be represented, all of whom were born after 1976. The show will run from April 8 – June 14.
Bruce Robbins’ show at Marlborough closes February 14th. Walls, Paintings, and Sculptures includes forty pieces in various mediums such as paint, wood, jute and clay.
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Gagosian Gallery will present the first U.S. retrospective of the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. An original enfant terrible of Italian art, Manzoni is perhaps best known for such provocative pieces as Artist’s Shit (Merda d’artista), Living Sculpture and Socle du Monde (Base of the World), which consisted of “a large iron plinth that he dedicated to Galileo and placed upside-down in a field in Herning, Denmark, thus rendering the entire globe as a work of sculpture.”
Miroslaw Balka will become the 10th artist to be featured in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Balka, a Polish born artist whose “work contains references to his Catholic upbringing, to his country’s past, the Nazi Holocaust, love and death,” will create a piece for the five-story space to be shown in October.
The D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library has an exhibition that explores the role of Yaddo, the artist retreat, in “fostering 20th-century American arts and letters. Founded in 1900 by financier and philanthropist Spencer Trask and his wife, Katrina Trask, Yaddo began receiving guests in 1926 and was immediately hailed by The New York Times as a “new and unique experiment, which has no exact parallel in the world of fine arts.” Since that inaugural season, Yaddo has navigated the roiled cultural and political life of 20th-century America while hosting thousands of artists and writers, including such luminaries as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Flannery O’Connor, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Jacob Lawrence, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Guston and Sylvia Plath.”
Peter Doig has a joint exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Michael Werner Gallery. This is his first solo show of new work to be held in the states in nearly ten years.
Rachel Reese’s MFA Thesis Show Auspex will run from January 26 – February 6 at The City College Art Gallery. With work that is both playful and profound, Reese’s future is very bright.
