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ARTS WATCH
One of Union’s great strengths is our location in a global city and arts capital
of the world. Precisely because there are so many things to do and see, it
can be a bit overwhelming to figure out where to begin. Arts Watch is a tool
to help narrow down the search, by highlighting exhibits and arts events around
the city. If you have a suggestion to be posted on Arts Watch, email it to Kathryn Reklis.
Compassion Pilgrimage
In today’s shifting political, economic, and ecological landscape, the need for compassion has never been greater – compassion understood as mutual interdependence, knowledge of self and others, and concern for human flourishing as we are interwoven across lines of difference and interconnection. This kind of compassion requires seeking to know all aspects of human reality, to be open to truths beyond our everyday experience and embedded in it. Artists often awaken compassion most profoundly. They form our imaginations such that we can envision our interconnection in ways that mere didacticism cannot achieve.
In conjunction with the Compassion exhibition hosted at Union by the Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice, the first Arts Watch is a list of sites and exhibits throughout the city that speak uniquely to the theme of compassion, broadly understood. Enjoy!
The Jewish Museum
Rite Now: The Sacred and Secular in Video
September 13, 2009 - February 07, 2010
This grouping of videos produced between 2001 and 2009 focuses on explorations
of secular and sacred ceremonies in a new framework.
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/ritenowvideo
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St, New York NY 10128
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
Through January 24, 2010
Emphasizing images derived from artists' firsthand observation, documentation,
and interaction with clients, this collection captures the defining and evolving
character of Americans as individuals, citizens, and members of ever-widening
communities.
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/americanstories/index.aspx?&HomePageLink=special_c1a
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028
Mixed Greens
Kimberly Hart – Scout
November 12 – December 23, 2009
Through drawing and sculpture, Hart exposes her alter ego (a mischievous, irreverent
young girl who is noticeably absent from the work) as self-reliant but more
vulnerable and suspicious, hunkered down in an austere outpost with few essentials
and a concern for an unknown adversary. http://www.mixedgreens.com/artweb/html/gallerypage_up.asp?page=upcoming_shows.htm
531 W 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
The Morgan Library and Museum
William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun”
Through January 3, 2010
Comprised of Blake's most spectacular watercolors, prints, and illuminated
books of poetry to dramatically underscore his genius and enduring influence,
the exhibit emphasizes his abiding interest in theology and philosophy, which,
during the age of revolution, inspired thoroughly original and personal investigations
into the state of man and his soul.
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=23
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016
The Museum of Modern Art
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture
from the Collection Through January 4, 2010
This exhibition features some of the most notorious works by surrealist artists,
writers, and poets who, through the production of elliptically erotic, sexually
charged objects and sculptures emphasized the power of the imagination to transform
the everyday. http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/960
11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019
National Museum of the American Indian
Annie Pootoogook
Through January 10, 2010
This exhibition features thirty-nine drawings of renowned artist Annie Pootoogook
(Inuit), chronicling social, economic, and cultural realities of the Canadian
North.
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=exhibitions&second=ny&third=current
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004
The Rubin Museum
Mandala: The Perfect Circle
August 14, 2009 - January 11, 2010
An exhibition that explores the various manifestations of the mandala, simultaneously
explaining their symbolism, describing how they fulfill their intended function,
and demonstrating their correlation to our physical reality.
and
The Red Book of C. G. Jung and The
Red Book Dialogues
Through January 24, 2010
This unprecedented exhibition marks the first public presentation of the preeminent
psychologist C. G. Jung’s (1875-1961) famous Red Book, possibly the most influential
unpublished work in the history of psychology.
www.rmancy.org
150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
Tibet House
Masterpieces of Contemporary Buddhist and Hindu Tantric Art: Newar
and Tibetan Paintings from the Collection of Robert Beer
November 19, 2009 – January 29, 2010
This exhibition features many new paintings made by the finest Newar and Tamang
artists of Nepal over the last six years, revealing how this contemporary renaissance
of modern tantric art has continued to flourish amidst the chaos of the Kathmandu
Valley.
http://www.tibethouse.org/Art/Upcoming_Exhibitions.html
22 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011
The Whitney Museum
Georgia O’Keefe: Abstraction
Through January 17, 2010
A unique exhibit devoted to O’Keeffe’s place among America’s first abstract
artists, featuring 125 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by
O’Keeffe as well as selected examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic
portrait series of O’Keeffe.
http://whitney.org/www/exhibition/okeeffe.jsp
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY 10021
X-initiative
ECSTATIC RESISTANCE and ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI, Democracies, The Game of Tag, My Neighbors, Repetition, Singing Lesson 1, Them, 80064
Through January 17, 2010
On the third floor, X Initiative will present Ecstatic Resistance, a group exhibition organized by New York-based artist Emily Roysdon. Included are works by more than ten international artists and performers who embrace the occurrence of pleasure within the realm of the political and who challenge the vernacular of resistance. The exhibition questions the limits of the impossible and focuses on strategies that re-imagine the representation of power. Ecstatic Resistance is a project that has taken a variety of forms–texts, performance, exhibitions and objects.
Participating artists: Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Juan Davila, Sharon Hayes, Xylor Jane, My Barbarian in collaboration with Liudni Slibinai, Ulrike Muller, Jeanine Oleson, A.L. Steiner, Joyce Wieland. Performances by: Leah Gilliam, Sharon Hayes, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Jeanine Oleson and Julianna Snapper, Dean Spade and Craig Willse, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Zackary Drucker and Mariana Marroquin, Ian White.
Artur Zmijewski will exhibit a selection of his groundbreaking videos on the second floor of X, offering to the American public the first large-scale presentation of his work to date, which coincides with his participation in the Projects series at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view through February 2010. Ranging from social experiments to crude documentaries, from investigations of complex moral issues to descriptions of everyday conflicts, Zmijewski’s videos sketch a multifaceted fresco of humanity, depicted with the cold eye of a documentarian and the piety of a passionate witness. The first ever American mid-career survey of this artist, the exhibition will also feature the US premiere of one of his most ambitious works to date, Democracies, a video installation composed of 20 monitors documenting public events and protest scenes from around the world from various political credo. Images of rallies, strikes, and uprisings are combined with footage from reconstructions of historical events, parades and funerals of controversial political leaders.
Artur Zmijewski (1966, born in Warsaw) represented Poland in 2005 at the 51st Biennale in Venice. In 2007 he participated at Documenta 12 in Kassel as well as at the second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Zmijewski’s work is also currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art with “Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski“ where he is premiering the video Swiecie 2009.
http://x-initiative.org/blog/2009/11/06/x-initiative-announces-phase-3/
548 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011