Ana Mendieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972-1985 at Galerie Lelong is in honor of the 25th anniversary of the artist’s death at the age of 36. Consisting of “original photographs, slides and other materials from the artist’s archive that have never been exhibited, along with rarely seen photographs, drawings, sculpture and recently restored films,” the show will “examine a number of significant motifs that recur throughout her work including blood, fire, and concealment.”
Anselm Kiefer’s show Next Year In Jerusalem will be at Gagosian Gallery’s West 24th Street space until December 18.
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Met is the first major exhibition in twenty years of this pioneer in conceptual art.
“Printed Matter presents the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Free and open to the public, the Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from twenty countries, offering the best in contemporary art book publishing.”
Get It While You Can, a group show organized by Salon Ciel, will run through November 16 at Gallery Bar.
Modigliani’s 1917 portrait “Nude Sitting on a Divan (The Beautiful Roman Woman)” sold at Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and modern art on Tuesday for $68.9 million, a record for the artist.
“Somewhere in New York City there is an abandoned subway station, unfinished, unused and undiscovered. Starting in 2009 over 100 artists were secretly escorted into the space to create works of art. Each artist painted for one full night. The entrance has since been removed and darkness has reclaimed the station…”
The Wanderer, Enrique Martinez Celaya’s exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art, explores his “immersion in a Western literary tradition rich in themes and imagery that project a deeply private existential odyssey.”
Sylvia Sleigh, who made her name in the ’70s by adding a feminist twist to the portrait genre, passed away on Sunday. She was 94.
Matthew Marks Gallery will have two shows by Brice Marden, Letters and Paintings 1961-1964, running simultaneously at their 22nd Street spaces.