Victor Burgin: UK76 at Bridget Donahue Gallery
99 Bowery 2nd floor, New York, NY (646) 896-1368 – September 08 to November 06

Lorna Simpson at Salon 94 Bowery
243 Bowery, New York, NY (212) 979-0001 – September 08 to October 22

Rashid Johnson: Fly Away at Hauser & Wirth (Chelsea)
511 West 18th Street, New York, NY (212) 790-3900 – September 08 to October 22

Eve Aschheim: Drawings and Photograms at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
138 10th Avenue, New York, NY (212) 750-0949 – September 08 to October 15

(These last two shows, Johnson and Aschheim, will be discussed at The Review Panel on September 20 when my guests at the Brooklyn Public Library will be Ken Johnson, Karen E. Jones and Sarah Nicole Prickett; the other shows are of A.L.Steiner and a mural by Lauren Clay at BAM)

Leonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 West 22nd Street, New York, NY (212) 929-2262 – September 08 to October 08

(Check out the stellar interview with Drew by Oona Zlamany from earlier this year)

Sharon Louden: Windows and Cotter Lupi at Morgan Lehman
534 West 24th Street Ground Floor, New York, NY (212) 268-6699 – September 08 to October 08

Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art
210 11th Avenue Second Floor, New York, NY (212) 365-9500 – September 09 to October 22- Reception: September 08

Marilyn Lerner: Harmonies at Cue Art Foundation
137 West 25th Street, New York, NY (212) 206-3583 – September 08 to October 15

Hearne Pardee: Peripheral Vision at Bowery Gallery
530 West 25th Street 4th Floor, New York, NY (646) 230-6655 – September 06 to October 01- Reception: September 08

(Pardee is a longstanding contributor to these pages; his latest piece for us is a report from Paris, of the Beats exhibition at the Pompidou.)

Lynda Benglis: New Work at Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street, New York, NY 212 242 7727 – September 08 to October 22

Joan Semmel at Alexander Gray Associates
510 West 26th Street, New York, NY (212) 399-2636 – September 08 to October 15

Ed Moses: Painting as Process at Albertz Benda
515 West 26th Street, New York, NY (212) 244-2579 – September 08 to October 15

Victor Vasarely: Analog at Maxwell Davidson Gallery
521 West 26th Street, New York, NY (212) 759-7555 – September 08 to October 29

Ian Davenport: Doubletake at Paul Kasmin (293 Tenth Avenue)
293 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY (212) 563-4474 – September 08 to October 22

Robert Polidori: Ecophilia / Chronostasis at Paul Kasmin (515 West 27th Street)
515 West 27th Street, New York, NY (212) 563-4474 – September 08 to October 15

George Grosz: Politics and His Influence at David Nolan Gallery
527 West 29th Street, New York, NY (212) 925-6190 – September 08 to October 22

Douglas Crimp: Before Pictures New York City 1967-1977 at Galerie Buchholz
17 East 82nd Street, New York, NY (646) 964-4276 – September 08 to October 22

Anne Sherwood Pundyk: Unconditional Paint at Salena Gallery (Long Island University/ Brooklyn Campus)
1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY (718) 488-1198 – September 06 to October 28- Reception: September 08

Richard Hennessy: Free Hand Free Spirit, Paintings 1989-2016 at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College
405 Klapper Hall 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, NY 718-997-4747 – September 08 to October 01

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OPENING SEPTEMBER 9

Kyle Staver: Tall Tales at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects
Figures, animals, and creatures cavort through Kyle Staver’s large pictures, free of the hindrances of bones, re-enacting old stories anew while communing with the long history of painting. Staver may be the first painter since Lester Johnson to get any mileage out of Greek mythology, and her new paintings of Pandora, Icarus, and Ganymede promise both to impress with their ambition and delight with their charm. FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
208 Forsyth Street, thru’ October 11

Writing Bodies at EFA Project Space
Writing Bodies, a group exhibition curated by Litia Perta, brings together nine artists working across different disciplines. Investigatory and interstitial in nature, the show will be the site for a series of scheduled “art actions” – performances, open studio practices, talks. Wonderfully dislocated, Writing Bodies promises to provide space for exchange, action, transparency, and serious play. EMMALEA RUSSO
323 West 39th Street, thru’ October 10

Stephen Maine at Hionas Gallery
For centuries, printmakers have striven – sometimes through elaborate means – to emulate the fluency and immediacy of painting, whether in lithography or soft ground etching, for instance. There is something deliciously perverse, therefore, in painter Stephen Maine turning the tables to make intriguingly textured large abstract paintings using “plates” of non-fine art materials like insulation paneling or extruded foam to build his layers of color. DAVID COHEN
124 Forsyth Street, thru’ October 4

Nadia Haji Omar/Bayne Peterson at Kristen Lorello
Since opening her gallery in April 2014 after serving as a director at Eleven Rivington, Kristen Lorello has proven herself to be an adroit curator with an eye toward the unexpected – such as a revival of the Southern California art scene fixture Malcolm “Mac” McClain and a NADA booth featuring cerastone-coated sculptures by Rachel Higgins. Her two-person show of Nadia Haji Omar and Bayne Peterson represents an intriguing juxtaposition of media that centers on delightfully intricate colors and patterns. WILLIAM J. SIMMONS
195 Chrystie Street 6th Floor , thru’ November 1

Carl Andre: In his time at Mnuchin Gallery
Some early and significant sculptures by Carl Andre are here contextualized with major works from the same period by Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin, Donald Judd and John Chamberlain, amongst others, offering an encapsulated view of a moment in the history of New York’s vital art scene before its place had been defined art historically. What we get to see are the shared ideas, later to be tagged Minimalism, as well as bold and inventive works from each artist that still look fresh today. DAVID RHODES
45 East 78 Street, thru’ December 5

Julia Bland at On Stellar Rays
The symmetrical geometric forms of Julia Bland’s dark and absorbing painted tapestries, boxing in and out of a radial center, are broken and interpolated with hand-worked detail and unexpected openings. A shadow might actually be a hole revealing a velvet-faced panel. A pattern, painted over, dissolves to criss-crossed knotted threads. Bland’s math-based intricate webs are often drawn from her reading and retelling of mystical texts. MEGAN LIU KINCHELOE
133 Orchard Street, thru’ October 25

OPENING SEPTEMBER 10
Bill Beckley, 1968-78. The Accidental Poet (The Avoidance of Everything) at Albertz Benda
To those familiar with Bill Beckley’s large beautiful photographs of flowers his very different early art will be a revelation. The show includes materials drawn from the artist’s personal archives as well as never before seen performance documentation, watercolors, and studies for works that have not been on view in decades. DAVID CARRIER
515 West 26th Street, thru’ October 3

Sergej Jensen at Galerie Buchholz
Long known and celebrated for his finely wrought, stitched together paintings made from found textiles, Sergej Jensen, for his first solo exhibition at Galerie Buchholz presents an altogether different body of work. Figures that appear to be sourced from Renaissance, Romantic or early Modernist paintings are rendered in complex, transparent layers that are just as visually astute as his earlier abstract paintings and which mark a bold departure from his established oeuvre. DAVID RHODES
17 East 82nd Street, thru’ October 31

Where Sculpture and Dance Meet: Minimalism from 1961 to 1979 at Loretta Howard Gallery
Performance art is linked to theatre, dance and activism, but also shares aesthetic histories with art objects—a fact facing ever-increasing resistance.  This exhibition offers a well-researched look at this irksome intersection including such classic works as Andy Warhol’s helium filled pillows, “Silver Clouds,” used as a stage set for Merce Cummingham’s dance, Rainforest (1968.) ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK
525-531 West 26th Street, thru’ October 31

Dana Schutz: Fight in an Elevator at Petzel Gallery
In the three years since her last show at Petzel, Schutz has experienced motherhood, and her new show, Fight in an Elevator depicting figures in “compressed interiors where they are forced to struggle against the boundaries of their painted environments” sounds like she has been channeling a whole new set of feelings to get to the heart of her interior experience. DENNIS KARDON
456 West 18th Street, thru’ October 24

Sarah Sze at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
In her first commercial gallery exhibition of new work in more than five years, Sze continues to create surprisingly intricate large-scale installations. Her use of everyday materials such as paper clips, industrial shelves, lamps, Styrofoam cups, or ballpoint pens re-contextualize the objects in our environment, morphing and shifting our perspective on our relationship to them. Her latest creations will encompass both floors of the gallery, sure to provide a constellation of visual delights. LEE ANN NORMAN
521 West 21st Street, thru’ October 17

Robert Janitz: Kerckhoffs’ Principle at Team Gallery
Robert Janitz, known for gooey paintings with broad strokes of wax-infused oil paint, presents a show of smaller pieces that are a bit ancillary to his usual work. Janitz’s portraits are bust-like images that depict only the back of his subject’s head, using layered swirls of pasty paint. The abbreviated forms are still emotionally resonant, recalling the work of Christina Ramberg or even, say, Alex Brown. NOAH DILLON
83 Grand Street, thru’ October 25

Susan Jane Walp: Paintings on Paper at Tibor de Nagy
Walp’s fifth exhibition at Tibor de Nagy will be her first to focus exclusively on works on paper, bringing a renewed freshness of paint handling and imagery to her long-standing interest in still life. The carefully arranged varieties of objects familiar from her previous work have yielded in recent years to more Spartan subjects with surprising potency, as in a series of frontal views of a single Etruscan vase. ELEANOR RAY
724 Fifth Avenue, thru’ October 17

OPENING SEPTEMBER 11

Laurel Sparks: Rubedo at Kate Werble Gallery
“Rubedo,” an alchemical term, hits the nail on the head for Laurel Sparks’ new exhibition where something is always turning into something else in endlessly playful, quizzical, and amusing paintings that often collect other materials including small objects, dirt, marble dust, glitter, and papier-mâché. With their intersections always highlighted, hand-painted patterns bind and merge into other patterned sections, and accrue into schematic and symbolic quilt-like organizations. MEGAN LIU KINCHELOE
83 Vandam Street, thru’ October 24

Ron Nagle: Five O’Clock Shadow at Matthew Marks
Ceramics is kind of a niche form in the art world, but those who do it well (such as Nagle, Arlene Shechet, Ken Price, and Nicole Cherubini) really show you how exciting the medium is. The staging of this show promises to be really interesting, with the pieces inset into the walls. When my natural urge is to see such objects in the round, I’m curious to see whether that works. NOAH DILLON
522 West 22nd Street, thru’ October 24

Elana Herzog at Studio 10
Cheap décor is savagely implicated in Herzog’s favorite methods, including stapling chenille into a wall and ripping it away, vivisecting dissonant carpets into pictorial arguments, and Home Depot-ing planes of bargain-basement renovation—or is demolition? Herzog’s ambitiously scaled compositions are built up from small, provisional decisions — unruly brushstrokes, in effect — that coalesce into powerful storms of texture. DAVID BRODY
56 Bogart Street, thru’ October 11

OPENING SEPTEMBER 12

Gabriele Evertz: The Gray Question at Minus Space
Minus Space, still in DUMBO, recently relocated to the cobblestoned corner of Main and Water Streets. The innovative architecture, which defies scale with its internal-external exhibition spaces, should be a gorgeous venue for Gabriele Evertz as she continues her maverick yet historically grounded investigations of color and cognition, optical bounce and intuition. Gray is the theme this time—with no lack of other chromatic tones that slice and sequence to special effect.  DEBORAH GARWOOD
16 Main Street, Suite A, DUMBO, thru’ October 31

OPENING SEPTEMBER 15
Cherchez la femme: Women and Surrealism at Sotheby’s.
Female surrealists have long been relegated to the category of muse to male surrealists. Now the market is discovering that – surprise, surprise! – women surrealists could be artists, too. This private selling exhibition will display more than fifty iconically bizarre works by better-known names like Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage and Dorothea Tanning, and lesser-known ones, from Czech-born Toyen (1902-1980) and Spanish-Mexican Remedios Varo (1908-1963) to the British Eileen Agar (1899-1991). PIRI HALASZ
1334 York Avenue, thru’ October 17.

OPENING SEPTEMBER 18

Samuel Laurence Cunnane at Theodore: Art
Stephanie Theodore is kicking off the Fall season with the work of 26-year-old Irish photographer Samuel Laurence Cunnane, whose dedication to analogue techniques gives his work a handmade patina reminiscent of Sally Mann’s landscapes. Cunnane’s combination of banal interiors, portraits, and darkly staged scenes bespeaks an emotive range not typical of artists at this stage in their career. WILLIAM J. SIMMONS
56 Bogart Street, thru’ October 25

Swedish Wooden Toys at Bard Graduate Center Gallery
From toys made for frozen lakes to handmade puzzles and more sophisticated, mass-produced forms, this colorful, scholarly exhibition not only traces the production of Sweden’s toy industries from the 17th thru’ 21st Centuries but also explores the educational value of wooden play things and the practice of handicraft (slöjd), a topic that will resonate emphatically with the resurgence of interest in beautiful, well-made objects for work and pleasure. REBECCA ALLAN
18 West 86th Street, thru’ January 17

OPENING SEPTEMBER 24

Painting is not doomed to repeat itself: An Exhibition Curated by John Yau at Hollis Taggart Galleries
This safe and solid Upper East Side stalwart (founded 1979) seems intent on dusting down its reputation since moving to Chelsea this summer. Poet and critic John Yau has assembled five painters, Squeak Carnwath (who shows with them) and guests Catherine Murphy, Philip Taaffe, Brenda Goodman and Merlin James, in what looks set to be a manifesto show for painting’s renewal as well, perhaps, as this gallery’s. DAVID COHEN
521 West 26th Street, thru’ October 31

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The Fluxus Weekend probably would have been enough. (Highlights from this tightly focused, historically themed mini-festival within Performa11 include a brand new film by Jonas Mekas called Fluxus Cabaret, complied from archival footage of Fluxus-related performances, and a day with Alison Knowles, founding member of the movement, who will perform with collaborators amid a sound installation in an empty storefront space.) But Performa has never been about “enough” or “tightly focused” — the biennial in its entirety is a well-marketed orgy of cross-disciplinary performances that have in common certain calendar dates, New York City, and an institutional stamp of approval. That said, the sense of urgency Performa creates around live or time-based work in “visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts” can be exciting —it just takes a bit of planning.

In past years I ventured out to more Performa shows than I could really fully engage with wholeheartedly because I believed that this biennial might possibly present a coherent vision of international contemporary performance as a whole. Actually, the fact that there is no cohesive whole in the art world, let alone across all these disparate disciplines, means that self-segregation persists despite, or perhaps because of, attempts at inclusiveness. Instead of a wide view of performance trends, the real value in a festival of this size is the opportunity to see shows that might not have come into existence were it not for Performa funding, and a marketing machine that benefits smaller works that would have been happening, more quietly, anyway. More precise editing and a more focused curatorial vision could conceivably cross boundaries between the aforementioned disciplines to make select contemporary trends across say food, architecture and visual art visible, but you can’t have it both ways, and director RoseLee Goldberg is truly attempting to create and to write the definitive history of performance. The result is New York time based art and performance on steroids.

As if this weren’t enough, even with all this inclusiveness, each week of the biennial there are important shows to see that don’t fall under the Performa11 heading, such as Maria Hassabi’s SHOW at The Kitchen, Reusuable Parts/Endless Love by Ryan Kelly and Brennan Gerard at Danspace, and John Jasperse’s Canyon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. There are various reasons why these particular pieces didn’t get included in Performa this time around, some of them more political than others, but it’s worth noting that there is really nothing differentiating the actual experience of these works from Performa11. Two years ago, the audience at Tere O’Connor’s non-Performa09 related Wrought Iron Fog at New York Live Arts (then still called Dance Theater Workshop) was the same audience that was out every night at Performa09 events. The borders of this festival are particularly porous.

As I mentioned, Fluxus is an historical reference point for the biennial, but so is Russian Constructivism. The stated overarching curatorial themes, which are supposedly intertwined with the historical themes, are “Language, Translation and Misinformation; The Voice; The Politics of Speech; and the Animation of Modern Sculpture.” These are all fascinating, and extremely large topics and one can only hope that they will play out in clear and interesting ways in many of the pieces on view. The performances range from Commissions, which are the most “Performa” of the works since the institution funds them and the biennial is the impetus for their creation, to Premiers (first showings of experimental works), Projects (everything else performed live), Long Term Exhibitions, and the Film Program. There’s also the Fluxus Weekend, Performa Comedy, Performa Radio, Performa TV, Performa Magazine, and Performa After Hours.

I wish there was also a Performa11 app for my phone. In lieu of that, I’ve handmade a short list of the shows for the second half of the three week biennial that I’ll be seeing or that I would be seeing if I could be in two or three places at once. See the full listing of shows at Performa’s website, where you can sort your choices by interest, day, time, neighborhood, and price.

Maria Petschnig see-saw, seen-sawn

• Thursday, November 10, 7:30 pm — 8:30 pm

Austrian Cultural Forum, Free

Jack Ferver with Michelle Mola Me, Michelle

• Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm, Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm, Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm

Museum of Arts and Design
$18 / $15 MAD members and students

Ragnar Kjartansson and Davíd ?ór Jónsson Artist Class: On Music and Forgiveness

• Friday, November 11, 3:00 pm — 4:00 pm

Performa Hub
$10 / 8 Student

Shirin Neshat OverRuled

• Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm — 9:30 pm
• Saturday, November 12, 5:00 pm — 6:30 pm
• Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm — 9:30 pm

Cedar Lake, $35 General, $35 to $100 Opening Night

Jonas Mekas Fluxus Cabaret

• Saturday, November 12, 6:00 pm — 7:30 pm

Anthology Film Archives, Tickets $9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members

Alison Knowles in collaboration with Jessica Higgins and Joshua Selman Beans All Day

• Saturday, November 12, 12:00 pm — 6:00 pm

Forever & Today, Inc. storefront space, Free

Trajal Harrell Antigone Jr.

• Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm — 7:29 pm
• Sunday, November 13, 7:30 pm — 9:00 pm

Third Streaming, $11

Liz Magic Laser I Feel Your Pain

• Sunday, November 13, 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm
• Monday, November 14, 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm

The SVA Theatre, Free with reservation

Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN

• Thursday, November 3- November 19^th, various days (see Performa Calendar) , 6:00 pm — 8:00 pm

Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space, Free.

Proposed curriculum on contemporary art and performance: Dennis Oppenheim and the art of survival, Day 17

• Thursday, November 17, 1:00 pm — 6:00 pm

Performa Hub, Free with reservation

Pablo Helguera The Well-Tempered Exposition, Book One, Part II

• Friday, November 18, 7:00 pm — 8:00 pm

Location One

Robert Ashley That Morning Thing

• Saturday, November 19, 8:00 pm — 9:30 pm, Sunday, November 20, 3:00 pm — 4:30 pm and 8:00 pm — 9:30 pm, Monday, November 21, 8:00 pm — 9:30 pm

The Kitchen, $30

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Jack Whitten at Alexander Gray Associates
526 West 26th Street #215. 212 399 2636. www.alexandergray.com

Greg Drasler: On the Lam at Betty Cuningham
541 West 25th Street. 212 242 2772. www.bettycuninghamgallery.com
reviewed by David Cohen (capsule reviews)

William Anastasi/N. Dash at Nicole Klagsbrun
526 West 26th Street. 212 243 3335 www.nicoleklagsbrun.com

Ronnie Landfield: New Paintings  at Stephen Haller Gallery
542 West 26th Street. 212 741 7777 www.stephenhallergallery.com
reviewed by David Cohen (exhibitions)

Will Barnet: Small Works on Paper from the 1950s at Alexandre Gallery
41 East 57th Street. 212 755 2828 www.alexandregallery.com

Anthony Goicolea: Pathetic Fallacy at Postmasters
459 West 19th Street. 212 727 3323 www.postmastersart.com
Was discussed at The Review Panel, September 30

Gabriel Orozco at Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street. 212 977 7160. www.mariangoodman.com
reviewed by Jonathan Goodman (exhibitions)

Tine Lundsfryd: Recent Paintings at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
138 10th Avenue. 212 750 0949. www.loribooksteinfineart.com

Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings at Marlborough
545 West 25th Street. 212 463 8634. www.marlboroughgallery.com

Ad Reinhardt: Works from 1935-1945 at Pace Gallery
32 East 57th Street. 212 421 3292, www.thepacegallery.com

Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World at Whitney Museum
945 Madison Avenue. 212 570 3600 www.whitney.org

Loren Munk: Location  Location  Location at Lesley Heller Workspace
54 Orchard Street. 212 410 6120 www.lesleyheller.com
reviewed by Greg Lindquist (exhibitions)

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SEPTEMBER 7
Loren Munk: Location  Location  Location and Don’t fence me in… or out at Lesley Heller Workspace
54 Orchard Street.  http://www.lesleyheller.com. (closes 10/16/11)

Anne Neely: Mopang at Lohin Geduld Gallery
531 West 25th Street.  http://www.lohingeduld.com. (closes 10/8/11)

Zipora Fried: Salon Noir at On Stellar Rays
133 Orchard Street.  http://www.onstellarrays.com. (closes 10/23/11)

SEPTEMBER 8
Richard Timperio at Art 101
101 Grand Street.  http://www.art101brooklyn.com. (closes 10/9/11)
“Richard Timperio, best known for his day job running Williamsburg’s Sideshow Gallery, has returned to his first love, painting, following the favorable reception of some experimental abstract works on paper in a group show at Art 101 last year.  He will display 10 to 12 more recent abstract acrylics on paper and canvas, again at Art 101, in a solo presentation.” PIRI HALASZ

Brian Jungen at Casey Kaplan
525 West 21st Street. http://www.caseykaplangallery.com. (closes 10/22/11)
“The Vancouver-based artist manipulates everyday objects, such as sneakers, plastic chairs and oil canisters, transforming them into sculptures that resemble precious artifacts rich in cultural significance.” STEPHANIE BUHMANN

Flesh and Bone: New Work by Ed Smith and Charlie Grosso at Baang & Burne Contemporary
547 W 27th Street.  http://baangandburne.com. (closes 9/14/11)

Maja Lisa Engelhardt: The fourth Day at Elizabeth Harris
529 West 20th Street.  http://www.elizabethharrisgallery.com. (closes 10/8/11)

Nick Cave: Ever-After at Jack Shainman Gallery
513 West 20th Street.  http://www.jackshainman.com. (closes 10/8/11)
related exhibition at Mary Boone opens following week

Ann Pibal: DRMN, and Siah Armajani: 1957-1964 at Meulensteen
511 West 22nd Street. 212 633 6999
“You don’t have to go to Southern California to celebrate light, space and color in art when it is all here in Ann Pibals’ smashing paintings at Meulensteen Gallery (formerly Max Protech).” REUBEN M. BARON

Do Ho Suh:  Home Within Home at Lehmann Maupin
540 West 26th Street.  www.lehmannmaupin.com. (closes 10/22/11)
“In New York City – recently besieged by earthquakes and hurricanes – Do Ho Suh’s ability to carry his concept of home with him like a snail is poignantly appealing.” ELLIE BRONSON

William Anastasi/ N. at Nicole Klagsbrun
526 West 26th Street.  http://www.nicoleklagsbrun.com. (closes1 0/15/11)

Nicole Etienne: A Moveable Feast at Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street.  http://www.sloanfineart.com. (closes 10/8/11)

Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater
257 Bowery.  http://www.speronewestwater.com. (closes 10/29/11)

Ronnie Landfield: New Paintings at Stephen Haller Gallery
542 West 26th Street.  http://www.stephenhallergallery.com. (closes 10/15/11)

Haim Steinbach: Creature at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street.  http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com. (closes 10/8/11)
The show has been selected for discussion at artcritical’s THE REVIEW PANEL on September 30 at the National Academy

John Beerman: Recent Paintings and Donald Evans: Selected Works at Tibor de Nagy
724 Fifth Avenue.  http://www.tibordenagy.com. (closes 10/15/11)
“Earthly in their modeling but unworldly in atmosphere, John Beerman’s landscapes of the Hudson River Valley and North Carolina contain a lyricism at once reticent and generous.” JOHN GOODRICH

SEPTEMBER 9
Robert Morris: Drawings 1961 – 1976 at Craig F. Starr Gallery
5 East 73rd Street.  http://www.starr-art.com. (closes 10/15/11)

Vik Muniz at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 West 22nd Street.  http://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com. (closes 10/15/11)

Noémie Lafrance: The White Box Project at Black & White Gallery
483 Driggs Avenue. http://www.blackandwhiteprojectspace.org. (closes 10/16/11)
“The choreographer of notable, site-specific works for the stairs of the Clocktower Gallery and for McCarren Park Pool aims with “The White Box Project” to transform the act of viewing into the art itself. Screenings of dance films follow each live performance in the gallery’s courtyard.  “ PATRICIA MILDER

SEPTEMBER 10
Will Barnet: Small Works on Paper from the 1950s at Alexandre Gallery
41 East 57th Street.  http://www.alexandregallery.com. (closes 10/15/11)

Alex Katz at Gavin Brown’s enterprise
620 Greenwich Street.  http://www.gavinbrown.biz. (closes 10/8/11)
“Expect at least one sublimity among the latest of any number of beautifully executed pictures from New York’s best painter.” BILL BERKSON
The show has been selected for discussion at artcritical’s THE REVIEW PANEL on September 30 at the National Academy

Nick Cave: For now at Mary Boone Gallery
745 5th Avenue.  http://www.maryboonegallery.com. (closes 10/22/11)
related show opens previous week at Jack Shainman Gallery

Anthony Goicolea: Pathetic Fallacy at Postmasters
459 West 19th Street.  http://www.postmastersart.com. (closes 10/15/11)
The show has been selected for discussion at artcritical’s THE REVIEW PANEL on September 30 at the National Academy

WORD UP! Recent Text-Based Work at Benrimon Contemporary
514 West 24th Street. http://www.bcontemporary.com. (closes 10/22/11)
” The role of language in visual art, first espoused by 1960s conceptualists as a democratizing device, is reexamined this fall at Benrimon Contemporary, where works by Robert Indiana and Barbara Kruger interrogate the formal function of text as well as its semantic properties.” MADDIE PHINNEY

Leandro Erlich: Two Different Tomorrows at Sean Kelly
528 West 29th Street.  http://www.skny.com. (closes 10/22/11)
The show has been selected for discussion at artcritical’s THE REVIEW PANEL on September 30 at the National Academy

SEPTEMBER 13
Lars Tunbjörk at Amador Gallery
41 East 57th Street.  http://www.amadorgallery.com.  (closes 11/19/11)
“Effortlessly funny and sweetly surreal, the work of this Swedish photographer reveals the awkward human infrastructure behind conformity’s smooth façade.” STEPHEN MAINE

SEPTEMBER 15
Serban Savu: Close to Nature at David Nolan Gallery
527 West 29th Street.  http://www.davidnolangallery.com. (closes 10/22/11)

Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972-2011 Paths of the Sun at Knoedler & Company
19 East 70th Street.  http://www.knoedlergallery.com. (closes 10/29/11)
“Since his days as a Rome Prize winner, Graham Nickson has frequently set himself marathon tasks of periodic painting from life of the setting or rising sun, undertakings that speak to his legendary tenacity, aesthetic obstinacy (the romantic subject dismissed as cheesy) and indefatigable delving into the mysteries of color.” DAVID COHEN

Melissa Meyer: New Paintings and Watercolors at Lennon Weinberg, Inc.
514 West 25th Street. http://lennonweinberg.com. (closes 10/29/11)
“While Melissa Meyer’s paintings and watercolors appear seemingly effortless, few artists have worked as hard or successfully to take the AbEx vocabulary and infuse it with transcendental light as this artist.” DEVEN GOLDEN

Black Mountain College at Loretta Howard Gallery
525-531 West 26th Street.  www.jacobsonhoward.com. (closes 10/29/11)

Paul Winstanley at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
534 West 26th Street.  http://www.miandn.com. (closes 10/22/11)

Ad Reinhardt: Works from 1935-1945 at Pace Gallery
http://www.thepacegallery.com. (closes 10/15/11)

Per Kirkeby: Paintings at Michael Werner Gallery
4 East 77th Street. http://www.michaelwerner.com. (closes 10/29/11)
“If, as Per Kirkeby proposes, “American painting began with Turner,” then we New Yorkers should be receptive to these newest works, which in exploring relationships between nature and abstraction, returning to landscape motifs as a source for painterly invention, propose a European ‘take’ on our modernist traditions.” DAVID CARRIER

SEPTEMBER 16
Ceal Floyer September 16 – October 29 2011 at 303 Gallery
547 West 21st Street.  http://www.303gallery.com. (closes 10/29/11)

Bernard Cohen: Work of Six Decades at Flowers
529 West 20th Street.  http://www.flowersgalleries.com. (closes 10/22/11)

Will Barnet at 100 at National Academy Museum
1083 5th Avenue.  http://www.nationalacademy.org. (closes 12/31/11)

Agnes Martin: 1980s Grey Paintings at Pace Gallery
534 West 25th Street.  www.thepacegallery.com. (closes 10/29/11)
“Martin’s grey paintings of the 1980s are emotionally evocative linear works on the cusp of change; they are the transition between her earlier introspective grids and her later hotter horizontal bands of pink, blue and yellow horizons that are abstract transformations of the New Mexico landscape. ” JOAN BOYKOFF BARON

Alex Katz: Figure/Ground at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue.  http://www.seniorandshopmaker.com. (closes 11/5/11)

Norm Paris: The Wall Still Stands at The Proposition
2 Extra Place at East 1st Street. http://www.theproposition.com/. (closes 10/23/11)
“Norm Paris’s obsession with sports, classical sculpture and modern building materials is evident here in his debut New York solo show.  In these human-sized sculptures, networks of minute, scaled-down cinderblocks, bricks and pipes transfigure snapshots of football and basketball players in mid-game.” GREG LINDQUIST

SEPTEMBER 18
de Kooning: A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street.  http://www.moma.org. (closes 1/9/12)

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Apologies to Evelyn Twitchell whose 2010 exhibition at the Bowery Gallery had tricked our system into thinking it opens next week.  In a since-corrected posting of this page we had offered the following “preview” of a show that had closed eleven months ago:

“In her crystalline, border-line cubist tree portraits, Twitchell delivers a vintage modernist distillation of the geometric and the organic with both urgency and poise.” DAVID COHEN

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