I’m most drawn to art that cannot be explained or re-represented in any other way. The current video installation by Claudia Joskowica at LMAKprojects is a prime example
541 W 24th St, Tu-Sa 10-6, thru 6/29
Massive bronze sea shells offer bizarre self reflections. Best on a sunny day. >blog
555 W 24th St, Tu-Sa 10-6, thru 6/29
Paintings without brushstrokes, bronze that looks like plastic, and 3 amazing balloon animals. >blog
530 W 21st St, Tu-Sa 10-6, thru 7/3
His stone figures in Rockefeller Plaza are bigger, but this quiet and strange installation is better. >blog
534 W 21st St, Mo-Fr 10-5, thru 6/28
ATTENTION: This gallery is on "summer hours" and only open on weekdays for the remainder of this show. >blog
525 W 19th St, Tu-Sa 10-6, thru 6/29
PERFECT reproductions of Greek statues and mailboxes entirely (and unbelievably) out of only plaster >blog
312 Bowery, Tu-Sa 12-7, thru 6/20 Last day
Hundreds of cans of paint are poured on 1 single spot to overflow into incredible abstractions.
122 Norfolk St, We-Su 11-6, thru 6/23 3 days left
A sad & beautiful show with jewelry that's more valuable than gold. Follow the music down the dark hall.
139 Eldridge st, We-Sa 11-6 Su 12-6, thru 6/23 3 days left
A delightfully disorienting (& impossible to photograph) video installation entertains as it instructs.
103 Norfolk St, We-Su 11-6, thru 7/14
Houses disintegrating in zero gravity with autumn trees that resemble fire balls (or vise versa).
24 W 57 St, Mo-Sa 10-6, thru 6/22 2 days left
1 particular painting in this show (at the end of the narrow hallway), justifies the whole trip uptown.
745 5th Ave, Tu-Sa 10-6, thru 6/21 1 day left
Find beauty and discomfort in these vulnerable and insanely detailed photographs.
32 E 69th St, Tu-Sa 10-6, thru 7/26
Sculpture so lifelike you’ll wait for her to breathe. Find the “making of” video upstairs.
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| 531 W 25th St | ClampArt | NYC, c.1985 | 7/3 |
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| 523 W 24th StFl 2 | Matthew Marks (24th St) | Ellsworth Kelly | 6/29 |
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| 535 W 22nd St | Leslie Tonkonow | Laurel Nakadate | 6/29 |
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| 535 W 22nd StFl 3 | P.P.O.W. | Carolee Schneerman | 6/22 |
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| 535 W 22nd St | Yancey Richardson | Terry Evans | 7/3 |
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| 535 W 22nd St | Andrew Kreps (537) | Christian Holstad | 6/22 |
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| 530 W 22nd St | Sikkema Jenkins & Co | Antony | 7/12 |
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| 522 W 22nd St | Matthew Marks (522) | Ellsworth Kelly | 6/29 |
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| 504 W 22nd St | Newman Popiashvili | Mark Woods | 6/22 |
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| 534 W 21st St | Paula Cooper (534) | Mark di Suvero | 6/28 |
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| 530 W 21st St | Gladstone (21st St) | Ugo Rondinone | 7/3 |
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| 521 W 21st St | Paula Cooper (521) | Bruce Conner | 6/21 |
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| 525 W 21st St | Casey Kaplan | Garth Weiser | 6/22 |
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| 537 W 20th St | David Zwirner (20th St) | Palermo | 6/29 |
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| 532 W 20th St | Anton Kern | Shio Kusaka | 6/22 |
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| 320 W 13th St | White Columns | The Cat Show | 7/27 |
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| 50 E 1st St | Osmos | Peter Roehr | 7/3 |
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| 257 Bowery | Sperone Westwater | Mark Greenwold | 6/28 |
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| 195 Chrystie St | Fitzroy Gallery | Secession Secession | 6/30 |
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| 131 Bowery | Simone Subal | Florian Meisenberg | 6/30 |
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| 122 Norfolk St | Laurel Gitlen | Edgardo Aragon | 6/23 |
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| 139 Eldridge st | LMAKprojects | Claudia Joskowicz | 6/23 |
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| 103 Norfolk St | Thierry Goldberg | Ben Grasso | 7/14 |
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| 70 Orchard St | Sasha Wolf | Katherine Wolkoff | 6/30 |
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| 54 Ludlow St | Klaus Von Nichtssagend | Kwartler & Solomon | 6/23 |
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| 47 Canal St Fl 2 | 47 Canal | Amy Yao | 6/23 |
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| 980 Madison Ave | Gagosian uptown | cecily brown | 6/22 |
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| 980 Madison Ave | Gagosian uptown | Dennis Hopper | 6/22 |
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| 20 W 57th St | Peter Blum | John Zurier | 6/22 |
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| 24 W 57 StFl 4 | Marian Goodman | Julie Mehretu | 6/22 |
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| 745 5th Ave | Edwynn Houk | Lalla Essaydi | 6/22 |
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| 1000 5th Ave | The Metropolitan Musuem | William Eggleston | 7/28 |
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| 1000 5th Ave | The Metropolitan Musuem | Sopheap Pich | 7/7 |
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| 1000 5th Ave | The Metropolitan Musuem | Velazquez | 7/14 |
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| 1000 5th Ave | The Metropolitan Musuem | Ken Price | 9/22 |
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| 1000 5th Ave | The Metropolitan Musuem | Civil War & American... | 9/2 |
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| 1000 5th Ave | The Metropolitan Musuem | Imran Qureshi | 11/3 |
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| 1048 5th Ave | Neue Gallery | Koloman Moser | 9/2 |
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| 1071 5th Ave | The Guggenheim | New Harmony | 9/8 |
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| 1109 5th Ave | The Jewish Museum | as it were... so to speak | 8/4 |
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| 1109 5th Ave | The Jewish Museum | Jack Goldstein | 9/29 |
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| 225 Madison Ave | Morgan Library and Museum | Matthew Barney | 9/2 |
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| 1114 6th Ave | International Center of P... | A Different Kind of Order | 9/8 |
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| 11 W 53 St | The Museum of Modern Art | Bill Brandt | 8/12 |
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| 11 W 53 St | The Museum of Modern Art | Dieter Roth | 6/24 |
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| 11 W 53 St | The Museum of Modern Art | Abstract Generation | 9/2 |
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| 11 W 53 St | The Museum of Modern Art | Claes Oldenburg | 8/5 |
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| 11 W 53 St | The Museum of Modern Art | Rain Room | 7/28 |
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| 11 W 53 St | The Museum of Modern Art | Ellsworth Kelly | 9/8 |
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| 200 Eastern Pkwy | Brooklyn Art Museum | El Anatsui | 8/4 |
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| 200 Eastern Pkwy | Brooklyn Art Museum | LaToya Ruby Frazier | 8/11 |
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| 200 Eastern Pkwy | Brooklyn Art Museum | John Singer Sargent | 7/28 |
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| 22-25 Jackson Ave | P.S.1 Contemporary Art Ce... | Expo 1 | 9/2 |
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| 44-19 Purves St | Sculpture Center | Better Homes | 7/22 |
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| 1040 Grand Concourse | Bronx Museum of the Arts | State of Mind | 9/8 |
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