Exhibitions NYC | May in Chelsea

My picks from yesterday walk, in a sunny and energetic May day in NYC. Visuals only as usual.

Leon Kossoff at Mitchell Innes & Nash

Keith Haring at Barbara Gladstone

Gillian Wearing at Tanya Bonakdar


Sol LeWitt at Paula Cooper


Tania Mouraud at Cueto Project



Jaume Plensa at Galerie Lelong

Vernissages NYC | Angus MacLise

Much of the contents of a suitcase belonging to Angus MacLise is now on exhibit at the Boo-Hooray Gallery. MacLise, an American artist, poet, percussionist, and composer was active in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and Kathmandu from the 1950s through the 1970s. The suitcase contained artwork, publications, and manuscripts, as well as more than 100 hours of recorded music.
In addition to the suitcase contents, the exhibition includes materials from private, previously unseen collections and archives, including ephemera, photos, artwork, memorabilia, posters, etc.
An additional sound installation at Boo-Hooray's new Chinatown space will be featured in an upcoming post.

Elizabeth Davis

Vernissages NYC | Chelsea May 12

Simon Evans at James Cohan

Zap, Master of Psychedelic Art at Andrew Edlin

AC Institute

Vernissages NYC | Robert Mapplethorpe 50 Americans at Sean Kelly Gallery

Racially mixed embraces, AIDS sufferers, frankly passionate and highly-charged images of men and women, along with mesmerizing photos of flowers, and tender images of loved ones—-all appear in Robert Mapplethorpe’s photos from the late 1970s-1980s. Mainstream at the time—-definitely not.

But a generation later, Americans responded to the invitation by the Sean Kelly Gallery to pick an image that resonated with them personally. The selected image, along with the respondent’s response—-one from each of the 50 states—-is on view at the Gallery. And a diverse group of respondents it is: they range in age from their 20s to one individual who is over 100; they live in rural and urban settings; and they work in various professions.

Clearly, the respondents resonate to the humanity depicted in the photos, with 37 being of people or bodily parts of people, including hands, heads, torsos, etc. Flowers and landscapes were selected by 11 respondents.

A handsomely and respectfully presented exhibition.

Elizabeth Davis

Robert Mapplethorpe
50 Americans

at Sean Kelly Gallery

May 7 through June 18

fitness event | NYC, SELF Workout in the Park

The stage of Rumsey Playfield in Central Park usually hosts concerts and performances, but last Saturday the main performer was the audience itself.
Thousands of women gathered together to jump, step, stretch, lunge, squat, punch, kick, crunch at the latest music rhythms in the fitness event organized by SELF magazine. The classes were choreographed by Crunch instructors and had exotic names such as "Retro-robics", "LABlast", "Beach Body", "Kama Strength", "Body Art".
Fifty per cent of profits were donated to the charities Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Cancer and Careers
An empowering event: now, let's bring the energy of the workout to our daily life!

Vernissages NYC | Richard Long: Art meets Land meets Architecture

Richard Long "Flow and Ebb" opened tonight at Sperone Westwater.

An exhibition of land art "transplanted" into a Lower East Side gallery space, newly renovated by Norman Foster: an elevator pit elevator never looked so good!

Photo courtesy of David Foell

Vernissages NYC | Chelsea and Midtown, May 6

Robert Mapplethorpe "50 Americans" curated by Fifty Americans from Fifty States at Sean Kelly Gallery

William Kentridge at Marian Goodman Gallery

camminando | NYC, Spring Trees and Public Art

Central Park Trees

Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads