By Tamara Moscowitz
September is both the beginning of the end and a harbinger of what’s to come for New York’s dynamic fall cultural offerings. Here’s a short selection of not-to-missed exhibitions and forthcoming museum/gallery shows that kick-off the city’s busiest cultural season.
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Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum
Second only to Rembrandt in name recognition in The Netherlands and equal to Vermeer in evocation of the Golden Age of Dutch art, Frans Hals (1582/83—1666) is one of the most accessible of the Old Master painters, revered for his portraits and genre scenes. Thirteen of his most important paintings from the Metropolitan and private collections, along with paintings by other Netherlandish masters, make for a jewel of an exhibition. Through October 10th.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, (212) 535 7710, www.metmuseum.org
Frans Hals
Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa makes his North American debut with a monumental installation that establishes parameters for a visitor’s total immersion into a defined space. A labyrinth of white translucent material with dangling microphones at the center allows people who enter to hear ambient noises or catch a live concert (think Philip Glass, Carla Kihlstedt and Jon Gibson), performed daily for 60—90 minutes. Through November 14.
Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, (212) 708-9400, www.moma.org
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Carlito Carvalhosa
Sum of Days
© 2011 Carlito Carvalhosa
Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art
Photograph by Jeffrey Gray Brandsted
Sum of Days
© 2011 Carlito Carvalhosa
Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art
Photograph by Jeffrey Gray Brandsted
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Richard Serra: Junction/Cycle
Richard Serra’s groundbreaking sculptures and drawings have gained him international recognition as one of the most significant artists of his generation with exhibitions at major museums and in the United States and Europe. Two new sculptures, Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010), push the boundaries of his unique sculptural syntax to create his most complex and challenging works to date. September 14—November 26.
Gagosian Gallery, (212) 741-1111, 555 West 24 Street, www.gagosian.com
© Richard Serra. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
Photography by Lorenz Kinzle
Photography by Lorenz Kinzle
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FALL SHOWS THE WAY
Heavy Metal
Three concurrent exhibitions—French contemporary furniture designer Ingrid Donat, Spanish silversmiths Juan and Paloma Garrido, and French metal sculptor Hervé Wahle—show how each artist works within a traditional medium to move outside of anticipated forms and constructions. September 15—October 29.
Barry Friedman Ltd., 515 West 26 Street, (212) 239-8670, www.barryfriedmanltd.com
de Kooning: A Retrospective
This is the first major exhibition devoted to the full breadth of the long and brilliant career of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), one of the most important and prolific abstract expressionists of the twentieth century. Nearly 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, including the celebrated third Woman series (1950-53) and Labyrinth (1946), will occupy the museum’s entire sixth floor, some 17,000 square feet. September 18—January 9, 2012.
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, (212) 708-9400, www.moma.org
Willem de Kooning
Rider (Untitled VII), 1985
Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
Rider (Untitled VII), 1985
Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
Julio Bittencourt
Ramos 15, 2008
Courtesy of 1500 Gallery
Ramos 15, 2008
Courtesy of 1500 Gallery
RAMOS
Another gifted Brazilian artist showing in New York is photographer Julio Bittencourt, whose color photographs of swimmers at Ramos Swimming Pool focus on a crowded, noisy public park, surrounded by fifteen favelas (shantytowns), capturing individual eccentricities and freedoms. September 21—January 28, 2012.
1500 Gallery, 511 West 25 Street #607, (212) 255-2010, www.1500gallery.com
Frank Stella’s Geometric Variations
The first gallery exhibition to explore Frank Stella’s iconic square paintings includes large single and double canvasses from the artist’s Concentric Square and Mitered Mazes series and the seminal New Madrid painting from his Benjamin Moore series. (Yes, that Benjamin Moore.) September 22—October 29.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Avenue, (212) 563-4474 www.paulkasmingallery.com
Frank Stella
Untitled, 1966
Image ©Frank Stella, courtesy of Artist Rights’ Society (ARS), New York
Untitled, 1966
Image ©Frank Stella, courtesy of Artist Rights’ Society (ARS), New York
Boris Grigoriev
Old Trombola, 1924
Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum
Old Trombola, 1924
Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum
Russian Modern/ Русский Модерн
This rare long-term exhibition of thirteen paintings by Russian and former Soviet artists explores Russian influence on modern European painting. Selected from the Brooklyn Museum and Jurii Maniichuk collections are masterworks by such pioneers as Ilya Bolotowky, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Weber and Chaim Soutine. September 28.
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, (718) 638-5000, www.brooklynmuseum.org
Juan and Paloma Garrido
Low Cilíndricos Table, 2010
Silver-plated nickel with marble, wood or metal surface
Edition of 10
Courtesy of Barry Friedman Ltd
Low Cilíndricos Table, 2010
Silver-plated nickel with marble, wood or metal surface
Edition of 10
Courtesy of Barry Friedman Ltd
