Fall/Winter 2010 Roundup
Metropolitan Museum, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Haremhab: The General Who Became Pharaoh, Our Future is in the Air, American Museum of Natural History, Brain: The Inside Story, Knoedler, The Grenfell Press: Thirty Years of Collaboration, Guggenheim Museum Chaos & Classicism: Art in France, Italy, & Germany, 1918-1936, Frederick Brosen: Recent Watercolors, Whitney Museum, Charles LeDray: workworkworkworkwork, Modern Life: Edward Hopper & His Time, Jewish Museum, Houdini: Art & Magic, Kips Bay Decorator Show House, MoMA, On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Alwin Nikolais' Total Theatre of Motion, Park Avenue Armony, IFPDA Print Fair 2010, Brooklyn Museum, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, Vilcek Foundation, Toshiko Nishikawa: Senbazuru.

One of Zürich's Rarest of Books was locked in a Bank Vault for decades, never to be seen. Now, however, the book itself & the remarkable facsimile that has been digitally created from it is now on view here in Manhattan at the Rubin Museum! closes Jan 25th 2010.

Four hundred years of Hudson up the river!
Rare Books Pay a Visit to Manhattan for a 600th Anniversary!, Don’t Judge a Red Book by Its Cover?, Architectural Phantasies Hidden Away at the Met Museum!, Lincoln & John Brown on Central Park West:, Hall a Century for the Guggenheim, also Lincoln Center!, Feminist Jewish Artists Confront Orthodoxy!, From Ceramic Clays to Kaolin Porcelains:, Celebrating the Arts in the Former B. Altman Building.

Francis Bacon (British, 1909–1992). Self Portrait, 1973. Oil on canvas, 77 15/16 x 58 1/16 in. (198 x 147.5 cm)

It will be a very busy cultural summer in New York...
At the Ana Tzarev Gallery, At the Brooklyn Museum, At the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, At the Frick Collection, At the Galerie St. Etienne, At the Grolier Club, At the Guggenheim Museum, At the Irish Arts Center, At the Jewish Museum, At Knoedler & Company, At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, At the Morgan Library & Museum, At MAD/The Museum of Arts & Design, At the Municipal Art Society, At the Neue-Gallerie, At the New-York Historical Society, At the Park Avenue Armory, At the UBS Gallery.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 1938). Berlin Street Scene (Berliner Strassenszene), 1913 14 Oil on canvas, 121 cm x 95 cm (47 5/8 x 37 3/8 in.). Neue Galerie New York and Private Collection, New York.

Spring is coming, discover European painting.
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-War America / Unearthing the Truth: Epypt’s Pagan & Coptic Sculpture / Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection / Arthur Szyk Illuminated—New York / Masterpieces of European Painting: from the Norton Simon Museum / The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 / Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker / The Danube Exodus: the Rippling Currents of the River / John Gerrard: Knoedler Project / Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts / Madison Square Art 2009: Shannon Plumb: The Park / Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna / Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors / Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance To Revolution / On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker / The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings / Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection / Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective / Klara Liden: Projects 89 / Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden & Berlin, 1905-1913 / The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern / Audubon's Aviary: Some Things Old, Some Things Borrowed, but Most Things New / New Children’s Center in Operation! / Sir Norman Foster To Design New Central-Library! / Sanford Smith's 21st Annual Works on Paper / Placing Avery: Paintings & Prints from Neuberger Museum of Art / Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect

Looking into 2009

CURTAIN CALL: "Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance." Costume design by Gladys Monkhouse for Jack O’Lantern (1917). R. H. Burnside Collection, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

At the American Folk Art Museum / MARTIN RAMIREZ, The Last Works / At the Ana Tzarev Gallery / SEE THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF ANA TZAREV, JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY / At the Bard Graduate Center Gallery / 'TWIXT ART & NATURE, English Embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700 / At Bonhams / At the Brooklyn Museum / THE BLACK LIST PROJECT, Timothy Greenfield Sanders & Elvis Mitchell / At the Maxwell Davidson Gallery / MEL ROSAS, La Calle Desconocida (The Unknown Street) / At the Galerie St. Etienne / "THEY TAUGHT THEMSELVES," American Self Taught Painters Between the World Wars / At the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation / IMAGES FROM THE TRIANGLE, The AIDS Paintings of Peter Harvey / At Knoedler & Company / JOHN WALKER, Drawings, 1973-1975 / At the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library & Museum / CURTAIN CALL, Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance / At the Metropolitan Museum of Art / BEYOND BABYLON, Art, Trade, & Diplomacy in the Second Millennium BC / CHOIRS OF ANGELS, Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300-1500 / CALDER JEWELRY / Mary & Michael Jahars Galleries for Byzantine Art, & The Medieval European Art Gallery / At the Morgan Library & Museum / PROTECTING THE WORD, Bookbindings at the Morgan / At MoMA/The Museum of Modern Art / PIPILOTTI RIST, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) / MARLENE DUMAS, Measuring Your Own Grave / ARTIST'S CHOICE, VIK MUNIZ, REBUS / Sanford Smith's Special Shows / 23rd Annual Modernism at the Park Avenue Armory, A Century of Style & Design, 1905-2005 / Outsider Art Fair at the 34th Street Mart / At the UBS Gallery HEYDAY, Frederick W. Glasier's American Circus, 1890-1925.

"Earth Info" in CLIMATE CHANGE: The Threat To Life & A New Energy Future. Through August 16, 2009 at American Museum of Natural History.

Strange Bed Fellows and More
Between the Sheets with Gregor Samsa & Franz Kafka!, THE ANGEL IN THE ARK:Or A Dream of Hay-Fever Transmuted Into A Revelation…, THE DREAM THAT SAVED MY LIFE!, Changing Dream-Channels at Mid-Night: From Bad to Worse!, DREAMING THE FUTURE—OR WISH-FULL THINKING?, Imperfect Mental-Telepathy—From the Sierra Foothills to El Salvador:, A NEW WAY TO SALUTE EXHIBITIONS & SHOWS PAST & PRESENT:, Up in Central Park: ZAHA HADID & MOBILE ART:, ZAHA HADID:MOBILE ART PAVILION FOR CHANEL; Museum Roundup: what's playing at American Folk Art Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Asia Society, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, At Christie's, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Fashion Institute Museum, Frick Collection, Galerie St. Etienne, Guggenheim Museum, ICP/International Center of Photography, Japan Society, Jewish Museum, Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library & Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, At MoMA/The Museum of Modern Art, Municipal Art Society, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of TV & Radio, National Academy Museum, Neue Gallerie, New York Botanical Garden, New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Rubin Museum of Art, At Sotheby's, Whitney Museum of American Art, UBS Art Gallery, Park Avenue Armory.

Egon Schiele. Female Nude.1911. Gouache, watercolor and pencil.

No Smiles of a Summer-Night: Agony Only
On the East-River: Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls, THOMAS HOPE: Regency Designer, FRICK'S VERMEERS REUNITED, RECENT ACQUISITIONS(And Some Thoughts on the Current Art-Market), LOUISE BOURGEOISE, TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME:10 YEARS OF MUSIC, MUSICIANS, and THE NATIONAL PASTIME, RICHARD DEACON: ASSEMBLY, J. M. W. TURNER, MEDIEVAL and RENAISSANCE TREASURESFROM THE VICTORIA and ALBERT MUSEUM, THE ART OF THE ROYAL COURT:Treasures in Pietre-Dure from the Palaces of Europe, FRAMING A CENTURY: Master Photographers, 1840-1940, MASTERPIECES OF MODERN DESIGN:Selections from the Collection, FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: THE SOPRANOS, PRAYER-BOOK OF QUEEN CLAUDE DE FRANCE, DALI: Painting and Film, GEO/METRIC: Prints and Drawings from the Collection, HOME DELIVERY: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, HENRY MOORE IN AMERICA: The Monumental Sculpture of Henry Moore, DARWIN'S GARDEN: An Evolutionary Adventure, THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY, WHAT MY DAD GAVE ME, BUCKMINSTER FULLER: Starting with the Universe, PAUL McCARTHY: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement--Three Installations, Two-Films.

Olafur Eliasson, One-way colour tunnel, 2007, Site-specific sculpture, Courtesy the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; and neugerriemschneider, Berlin, © 2007 Olafur Eliasson.

The Horse Exhibition, History of Navigation and More
MUSIC-BOXES ON SHOW AT STEUBEN ON MADISON!, DARGERISM: Contemporary Artists & Henry Darger, ASA AMES: Occupation Sculpturing, EARL CUNNINGHAM’S AMERICA: America’s Rural Past, THE HORSE, ©MURAKAMI, THE ARNHOLD COLLECTION OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN, 1710-50, HOPE OR MENACE? Communism in Germany Between the Wars, CHUCK CLOSE PHILIP GLASS 40 EARS, ACTION/ABSTRACTION: Pollock, De Kooning, & American Art, 1940-1976, NEW YORK STORY: Jerome Robbins & His World SUPERHEROES, JEFF KOONS ON THE ROOF, THE NORMANDIE’S THE HISTORY OF NAVIGATION TO BE RE-INSTALLED! ILLUMINATING THE MEDIEVAL HUNT, PHILIP GUSTON: Works on Paper, NEW YORK CITY MASTERWORK AWARDS, CATHOLICS IN NEW YORK 1808-1946, TAKE YOUR TIME: Olafur Eliasson, JAZZ SCORE, GEORGE LOIS: The Esquire Covers, ATELIERS JEAN PROUVÉ, IENER WERKSTÄTTE JEWELRY, DARWIN’S GARDEN & HENRY MOORE SCULPTURES, ALLURE OF THE EAST: Orientalism in New York, 1850-1930,WOVEN SPLENDOR FROM TIMBUCTU TO TIBET:, Exotic Rugs & Textiles from New York Collectors, EMINENT DOMAIN: Contemparary Photography & the City, JOHN MILTON AT 400: A Life Beyond Life, WATERCOLORS FROM THE HIGHGROVE FLORILEGIUM:, Botanical Paintings from the Garden of HRH The Prince of Wales, ON PAPER: The Lincoln Center/List Collection

From the Guinness Collection of Musical Machines & Automata in Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ: Clown Illusionist Made by Jean or Henry Phalibois, Paris, France c. 1890-1900 33 ½” x 15 ¾” x 19 1/8”

Spring Roundup
MUSEUM WONDERS ACROSS THE HUDSON, THE GREEN HOUSE: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture & Design, MUSICAL-MACHINES & LIVING-DOLLS, GILDEN LIONS & JEWELED HORSES: The Synagogue to the Carousel, DESIGNED FOR PLEASURE: The World of Edo Japan in Prints & Paintings, 1680-1860, FIRST UNDER HEAVEN: Korean Ceramics from the Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd Collection, THE SHAPE OF THINGS: Chinese & Japanese Art, SHAKER DESIGN: Out of This World, ENCHANTED STORIES: Chinese Shadow Theatre in Shaanxi, ART CABINET, ASIAN ART WEEK & Then Some, ROCOCO: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008, CAMPANA BROTHERS SELECT: Works from the Permanent-Collection, PARMIGIANINO'S ANTEA: A Beautiful Artifice, TRANSFORMING REALITY: Pattern & Design in Modern & Self-Taught Art, CAI GUO-QIANG: I Want to Believe, WARHOL'S JEWS: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, ART, IMAGE, & WARHOL CONNECTIONS, WRITING TO CHARACTER: Songwriters & the Tony Awards©, OLIA LIALINA & DRAGAN ESPENSCHIED: Online Newspapers: New York Edition, NEW GALLERIES FOR 19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURY PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE, POUSSIN & NATURE: Arcadian Visions, GUSTAVE COURBET, JASPER JOHNS: Gray, RADIANCE FROM THE RAIN-FOREST: Featherwork in Ancient Peru, BEAUTY & LEARNING: Korean Painted-Screens, blog.mode: addressing fashion, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Irving Penn-Portraits of Artists & Writers, MICHELANGELO, VASARI, & THEIR CONTEMPORARIES: Drawings from the Uffizi, LUCIAN FREUD: The Painter's Etchings, COLOR-CHART: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, DESIGN & THE ELASTIC MIND, BEAUTY SURROUNDS US, LISTENING TO OUR ANCESTORS: The Art of Native Life along the North-Pacific-Coast, AUDUBON'S AVIARY: Portraits of Endangered-Species, Chatsworth Is Not in Devon, JOSIAH WEDGEWOOD & HIS CIRCLE, THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2008, When Madison Avenue Was Still Wilderness, OTHER VENUES/OTHER EVENTS: Some Sanford L. Smith Shows: The Outsider Art Fair 2008 at the Puck Bldg, The 20th Anniversary of Works on Paper at the Park Avenue Armory

Fog Curtain, water:h20=life, The American Museum of Natural History, New York.

From Basic Nature of Life to Drawing Beliefs 2007
At the American Museum of Natural History: WATER: H2O=Life, At the Bard Graduate Center Gallery: FAGILE DIPLOMACY: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, At Christie's: Headline: Matisse Sells for $. Million, At the Frick Collection: GABRIEL DE SAINT-AUBIN, Fragonard Panels Re-Hung in Refurbished Fragonard Room, At GalleryMet/Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel, At the Guggenheim Museum: FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, At the Jewish Museum: FROM THE NEW YORKER TO SHREK: The Art of William Steig, At the Leslie and Loman Gallery: STAGESTRUCK: The Magic of Theatre Design, At the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library and Museum: LINCOLN KIRSTEIN: Alchemist, GRAZIELLA VIGO CAPTURES VERDI ON STAGE, At the Metropolitan Museum of Art: TAPESTRY IN THE BAROQUE: Threads of Splendor, GIFTS FOR THE GODS: Images from Egyptian Temples, THE GATES OF PARADISE: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece, SILVERSMITHS TO THE NATION: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner - TARA DONOVAN AT THE MET, WRIGHTSMAN GALLERIES FOR FRENCH DECORATIVE ARTS RENOVATED, NEW GALLERIES FOR OCEANIC ART, NEW GALLERY FOR ART OF NATIVE NORTH AMERICA, NEW URIS CENTER FOR EDUCATION, At the Morgan Library and Museum: DRAWING CONNECTIONS: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters, At MoMA/The Museum of Modern Art: RAW, MARTIN PURYEAR, GEORGES SEURAT: The Drawings, New Perspectives in Latin-American Art, -: Selections from a Decade of Acquistions, MULTIPLEX: Directions in Art, To Now, At the Neue Gallerie: GUSTAV KLIMT: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, At the New York Botanical Garden: KIKI: The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum, THE HOLIDAY TRAIN SHOW, PLANTS OF JAPAN: In Illustrated Books and Prints, At the New-York Historical Society: LAFAYETTE'S RETURN TO WASHINGTON'S AMERICA, HERE IS NEW YORK: Remembering, LIFE'S PLEASURES: The Ashcan Artist's Brush with Leisure, At the New York Public Library BEATIFIC SOUL: Jack Kerouac On the Road, At Sotheby's: ARIANE DANDOIS: Remarkable Antiques in Molyneaux Rooms, At the Whitney Museum of American Art: Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, At the Armory with Sanford Smith Shows: Modernism, Art , Works on Paper: NY Art and Architecture Post-Scripts: Seven Projects for the Hudson Railyards: Most-Endangered Sites Cited by World Monuments Fund at Morgan Library

Ernie Gehr, The Rat Eater (2006), Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Show, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Rebooting & Getting-Started for the NYC Arts Season 2007-2008
At the Asia Society / THE ARTS OF KASHMIR / ZHANG HUAN ALTERED STATES / PIRANESI AS DESIGNER / PROVOKING MAGIC LIGHTING OF INGO MAURER / IDEO SELECTS Works form the Permanent Collections / National Design Awards / At the Dahesh Museum / At the Frick Collection / Fragonard Re-Hung / At the Galerie St. Etienne / LEONARD BASKIN Proofs & Process / At the Arnold & Marie Schwartz GalleryMet / GUILLERMO KUITCA Stage Fright / At the Guggenheim Museum / RICHARD PRINCE Spiritual America / Restoring the Guggenheim's Frank Lloyd Wright-Infrastructure / At the Jewish Museum / CAMILLE PISSARRO Impressions of City & Country / ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER & THE LOWER EAST SIDE / Photographs by Bruce Davidson / At Madison Square Park / MAD. SQ. ART. WILLIAM WEGMAN / At the Metropolitan Museum of Art / ETERNAL ANCESTORS The Art of the Central African Reliquary / THE AGE OF REMBRANDT / Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / IMPRESSED BY LIGHT / British Photographs from Paper Negatives / ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM & OTHER MODERN WORKS / The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan / In the Met's New Joyce & Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography / DEPTH OF FIELD Modern Photography at the Metropolitan / At the Morgan Library & Museum / PAINTED WITH WORDS Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Émile Bernard / At The Museum of Modern Art / PANORAMAS OF THE MOVING-IMAGE / Mechanical Slides & Dissolving View / From th Century Magic-Lantern Shows / ERNIE GEHR Moving-Image Minimalist / MoMA's Single-Gallery FOCUS Exhibitions Continue / FOCUS ELLSWORTH KELLY / FOCUS ALEXANDER CALDER / At the Municipal Art Society / JANE JACOBS & THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK / At the New York Public Library / GRAPHIC MODERNISM From the Baltic to the Balkans / - / At the Rubin Museum of Art / BON The Magic Word / BIG Himalayan Art / WUTIASHAN Pilgrimage to Five-Peak Mountain / At the Society of Illustrators / CUTTING EDGES Cartoon Art Defining the World / At the Whitney Museum of American Art / KARA WALKER My Complement / My Enemy / My Oppressor / My Love / Arts Beyond the Hudson / Exploring History & Artifacts in Madison / NJ.

Sculpture by Robert Morris, photo by Tom Wesselmann.

On the Outside but Occasionally Looking In: Documenta and some other European Summer-Shows
Photo-Archiving Architectural-Façades vs. Inspecting Museum-Interiors / HESSIAN KASSEL Hercules without a Head & Documenta 12 wo a Heart / DECADE BY DECADE IN MÜNSTER Sculpture Projects '07 / BREGENZ ON THE BODENSEE Angelika Kauffmann & Some Moderns / Celebrating Angelika Kauffmann / MYTHOS Beside the Bodensee / Kunsthaus-Bregenz Showcases Beuys & Barney & Twombly & Gordon / QWIK-STOP IN BERLIN The Story of Berlin-Mit Original Atomshützbünker / ON-VIEW AT THE GROPIUS-BAU Cindy Sherman & Scythian Gold / NEW IN MUNICH Jüdisches Museum München / OLD IN MUNICH Max Krug / Cuckoo-Clocks / FRIEDRICHSHAFEN-AM-BODENSEE The Zeppelin-Museum / Stop-Over in Prague Historic Churches & Monasteries as Virtual-Museums & Performance-Venues / IN WIEN Specialist-Museums & Collections Briefly-Noted / Sigmund Freud Museum / Arnold Schönbeg Center / Möbel Museum Wien / Technisches Museum Wien / Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenen Künste Wien / Österrechische Nationalbibliothek Prunksaal / BEYOND THE VIENNA-WOODS Stift Kloster-Neuberg & the Essl-Museum / Kloster-Neuberg Where Heaven & Earth Meet; Faith / Wine / & Culture on Vienna's Doorstep / Essl Museum's Kunst der Gegenwart / VARIETY IN FESTIVE SALZBURG Baroque / Rococo / & Modern Share the Stage / Dom-Museum zu Salzburg Ewald Mataré in Salzburg / Dommuseum zu Salzburg Wunderkammer & More / Salzburger Barockmuseum Versailles-The Gardens of the Sun-King / Salzburg's Residenzgalerie Die Schöne und das Ungeheuer / MUSEUM DER MODERNE SALZBURG / MdM MÖNSCHBERG & RUPERTINUM Jan Fabre / Sammlung Mahjong / & Klimt to Krystufek / MdM RUPERTINUM Klimt to Krystufek Jan Fabre The Invested Time / Translating Jan Fabre / IN LONDON AT THE TATE-MODERN / Dalí & Film / Hélio Oiticica The Body of Color / Hockney on Turner Watercolours

Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait / 1889

Marquis of de Young Museum.

A Trip to the San Francisco's Big Three Museums
Way Out West - Boulder & the Colorado Rockies / Bay-Area Museum Hopping / Bowles-by-the-Bay / Salinas & Steinbeck Country / Onward & Upward to Stanford / San Francisco’s Big Three / SFMoMA / MH de Young & The California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

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