Read up on RASHAAD NEWSOME on his website and PS1.

via GvDG Greenberg Van Doren Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper from 1949 – 1955 by Richard Diebenkorn (1922 – 1993). Organized in cooperation with the Estate of Richard Diebenkorn, this exhibition will feature thirty-sixworks many of which, until now, have only been seen in museum exhibitions including the 1988-89 MoMA show The Drawings of
Richard Diebenkorn and the Harwood Museum of Art’s Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico from 2007-08.

Diebenkorn’s early works from the late 40s through the mid 50s are among the finest examples of postwar American abstraction. Characterized by calligraphic lines and shifting fields of color, these works reflect both the broader interest in abstraction shared among many artists of the period and the diverse landscapes in which Diebenkorn lived during these years. Diebenkorn left Sausalito,
California in 1949 to pursue his graduate degree in art at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In 1952 he moved again to Urbana, Illinois to teach and then, in 1952, returned to California where he settled in Berkeley. Each new surrounding provoked a change in the artist’s palette and in the overall rhythm of his compositions.

GO SEE / PICTURES BY WOMEN
A HISTORY OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
THROUGH / MARCH 2011
AT THE / MOMA

via MoMA For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms, a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.

GO SEE / RICHARD PRINCE TIFFANY PAINTINGS
AT THE / GAGOSIAN GALLERY MADISON AVE
THROUGH / JUNE 19TH 2010

"These things looked like something that should be painted."


For further info / GAGOSIAN GALLERY.

NARCISSISTER / THIS MASQUERADE
THE KITCHEN / MAY 14-15 / 8PM

DELUXX FLUXX
BRINGS BACK THE VIDEO ARCADE
PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK

What do you get when Brooklyn-based duo Faile and collaborator Bast take over a disused store front on the Lower East Side? DELUXX FLUXX, a functional video arcade is will be open to the public from 3-11pm Tuesday through Sunday until May 27th.

Originally conceived as a one-off project in London, Deluxx Fluxx allowed Faile and Bast to indulge nostalgia for the classic video arcade while exploring the tactile possibilities of the wooden cabinet as sculptural medium. In its New York incarnation, the retrofitted machines run new games by Adapted Studio based on Faile and Bast's omnivorous visual language, with sounds produced by Seth Jabour of the noted band Les Savy Fav.

New York Gallery Week, a new initiative organized collectively by 50 Manhattan-based contemporary art galleries and 7 not-for- profits – spanning Chelsea, SoHo, the Lower East Side/Bowery, the Upper East Side, and 57th Street – will launch its first annual program this weekend.

With a shared desire to refocus the art world’s attention toward the city’s longstanding exceptional gallery programming, a group of emerging and established galleries have come together with a mission to put the spotlight back on the galleries and the artists.

At its core, NYGW 2010 is a presentation of over 50 solo gallery exhibitions, along with an unprecedented concentration of scores of free events and programs, the majority taking place inside the galleries themselves.

Head to NEW YORK GALLERY WEEK to view the participating galleries and to view the events and programming schedule. CLICK HERE to download the schedule.

New York art group The Boys Collective explores the surface of the fashion image by cutting collaging and setting fire to models Daisy Lowe, Lea Groesland, Tao Okamoto featured along with archival imagery of supermodels Kristen McMenamy, Kate Moss and the fabulous Steve Buscemi.

NUDE, GREEN LEAVES AND BUST
PABLO PICASSO / 1932