my year in exhibits, 2009

Listed chronologically:

  • “Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945–1965,” Robert Miller Gallery
  • “Andy Warhol: Still-Life Polaroids,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Al Held,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades,” Knoedler & Co.
  • “Sam Glankoff: Paintings on Paper,” Knoedler & Co.
  • “Gilbert & George,” Brooklyn Museum 
  • “Alexander Calder: The Paris Years 1926–1933”, Whitney Museum
  • “Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol”, Whitney Museum
  • “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “The Printed Picture,” MoMA
  • “Focus: Jasper Johns,” MoMA
  • “Stanley William Hayter in America: Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1940–1950”, Francis M. Nauman Fine Arts
  • “Michaela Melián,” 38 Ludlow
  • “Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum,” Frick Collection
  • “Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913,” Neue Galerie
  • “Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens”, Onassis Cultural Center
  • “The Artist As Troublemaker”, Austrian Cultural Forum
  • “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective”, MoMA
  • “Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh”, MoMA
  • “Franz West: Works from the 1990s”, Zwirner & Wirth
  • “Andy Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection”, Gagosian Gallery
  • “Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks”, PaceWildenstein
  • “Paul Sharits”, Greene Naftali
  • “Carolee Schneeman: Painting, What It Becomes”, P.P.O.W
  • “Carolee Schneeman: Performance Photographs from the 1970s”, Carolina Nitsch
  • “With Hidden Noise”, David Krut Projects
  • “Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal”, “Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954–1962”, Matthew Marks
  • “1992009”, D’Amelio Terras
  • Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  • Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  • “James Castle Drawings: Vision and Touch”, Knoedler & Company
  • “James Castle”, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art
  • “Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Thousand”, David Zwirner
  • “Lisa Yuskavage”, David Zwirner
  • “Julianne Swartz: Terrain”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery
  • “Robert Mangold: Drawings and Works on Paper, 1965–2008”, PaceWildenstein
  • “Playing This Litho Instrument: The Prints of Barnett Newman, Part II”, Craig F. Starr Gallery
  • “Donald Judd Colored Plexiglas”, L & M Arts
  • “Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros”, Gagosian Gallery
  • “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West”, MoMA
  • “Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded”, MoMA
  • “Words in Freedom: Futurism at 100”, MoMA
  • “John Waters: Rear Projection”, Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • “Richard Tuttle: Walking On Air”, PaceWildenstein
  • “Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel”, MoMA
  • “Kenneth Anger”, P.S.1
  • “Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool”, P.S.1
  • “Cézanne & Beyond”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Henri Matisse and Modern Art on the French Riviera”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • “Unica Zürn: Dark Spring”, The Drawing Center
  • “Hans Bellmer: Octopus Time”, Ubu Gallery
  • “Tacita Dean”, Marian Goodman Gallery
  • “E. O. Hoppé: Early London Photographs (1910–1939)”; “CLOUD 9: Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston”; “André Kertész: In the Depths of Winter”, Bruce Silverstein
  • “Alfredo Jaar: The Sound of Silence”, Galerie Lelong
  • “Espèces d’espaces”, Yvon Lambert
  • “Ellen Driscoll: FastForwardFossil, Part I”, Frederiecke Taylor Gallery
  • “Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself”, Paula Cooper
  • “Nam June Paik: Live Feed: 1972–1994”, James Cohan Gallery
  • “Alex Katz”, PaceWildenstein
  • “\'flō\: art, text, new media,”, Center for Book Arts
  • “Yayoi Kusama”, Gagosian
  • “Nicolas Carone, Abstraction/Figuration: works on paper”, Lohin Geduld Gallery
  • “D.I.Y.”, Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “Black & White”, Stellan Holm Gallery
  • “Alice Neel: Selected Works”, David Zwirner
  • “Charles Ray: Ink Line, Moving Wire, Spinning Spot”, Matthew Marks
  • “Momus with Aki Sasamoto: Love is the End of Art”, Zack Feuer Gallery
  • “Franz West: To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008,” LACMA
  • Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
  • “Ernesto Neto: Anthropodino,” Park Avenue Armory
  • “Ray Johnson: . . . Main Ray, Ducham, Openheim, Pikabia . . .,” Richard L. Feigen & Co.
  • “Leon Kelly: An American Surrealist,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
  • “Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s,” Zwirner & Wirth
  • “European & Russian Photomontage, 1920–1940,” Ubu Gallery
  • “John Chamberlin: Early Years,” L & M Arts
  • “Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings,” Michael Werner
  • “Go Figure,” Gagosian
  • “Marble,” Gagosian
  • “Chuck Close: Selected Paintings & Tapestries 2005–2009,” Pace Wildenstein
  • “The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography,” Aperture Gallery
  • “Chris Marker: ‘Quelle heure est-elle?’,” Peter Blum
  • “Alberto Giacometti: Drawings,” Peter Freeman
  • “Raster Noton: The Shop,” e-flux
  • “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus,” The New Museum
  • “Mimmo Rotella: American Icons and Early Work,” Knoedler & Company
  • “Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720–1778,” David Tunick, Inc.
  • Museo Nacional de Antropología, México D.F.
  • Museo Rufino Tamayo, México D.F.
  • Museo del Carmen, México D.F.
  • Museo León Trotsky, México D.F.
  • Museo Frida Kahlo, México D.F.
  • Museo Teotihuacán, Teotihuacán
  • Colleción Jumex, Ecatepec
  • Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México D.F.
  • Palacio de Cultura Banamex, México D.F.
  • Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, México D.F.
  • “Paula Hayes: Excerpts from the Story of Planet Thear,” Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • “Your Gold Teeth II,” Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • “Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,” MoMA
  • “James Ensor,” MoMA
  • “Projects 90: Song Dong,” MoMA
  • “In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989,” MoMA
  • “Larry Rivers: 1950s/1960s,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Tim Hawkinson,” Pace Wildenstein
  • “Lynda Benglis/Robert Morris: 1973–1974,” Susan Inglett
  • “Anthony McCall/Finnbogi Pétursson,” Sean Kelly Gallery
  • “The Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde,” Casey Kaplan Gallery
  • “The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women,” Cheim & Read
  • “Naked!” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Ed Sanders: Glyphs,” The Arm
  • “The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Chris Bertholf: The Mysterious Landscape,” John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York
  • “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages,” Met
  • “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective,” Met
  • “Michelangelo’s First Painting,” Met
  • “Dorothy Iannone,” Anton Kern Gallery
  • “Works on View,” Jack Shainman Gallery
  • “Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers,” The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons
  • “Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Carol Bove with Janine Lariviere, ‘Plants & Mammals’,” The Horticultural Society of America
  • “Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design,” Visual Arts Gallery, SVA
  • “Ken Friedman: 99 Events,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “David Novros,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  • “Carl Andre,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  • “Zig Zag,” Sperone Westwater
  • “Heinz Mack: Paintings, 1957–1964,” Sperone Westwater
  • “James Turrell: Large Holograms,” PaceWildenstein
  • “Bernadette Corportation,” Greene Naftali
  • “Peter Hujar: Photographs 1956–1958,” Matthew Marks Gallery
  • “Dennis Hopper: Signs of the Times,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery
  • “A Matter of Light,” Elga Wimmer
  • “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976,” MoMA
  • “Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes – Five Decades of Painting,” The UBS Art Gallery
  • “Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess,” Francis M. Naumann Gallery
  • “Elaine Lustig Cohen. My Heroes: Portraits of the Avant-Garde,” Adler & Conkright Fine Art
  • “David Mann,” McKenzie Fine Art
  • “Sister Corita Kent,” Zach Feuer Gallery
  • “Lynn Koble: Capacity,” Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
  • “Robert Frank,” Robert Mann Gallery
  • “David Colosi: Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions,” Cueto Project
  • “On Top of the Whale,” Mitchell Algus Gallery
  • “Sean Scully: Recent Paintings,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Damián Ortega: CAPITAL Less,” Gladstone Gallery
  • “Stripes/Solids,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  • “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868,” Met
  • “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans,” Met
  • “Dense-local y Del Exilio al Insilio ¿somos todos extranjeros?,” Labratorio Arte Alameda, México, D.F.
  • “Pedro Friedeberg: arquitecto de confusiones impecables,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México, D.F.
  • “Los desmembrados,” Museo Nacional de Arte, México, D.F.
  • “Remedios Varo y la literatura: para leer a Remedios Varo”/”Hecho en casa,” Museo de Arte Moderno, México, D.F.
  • “De la tierra a la luna”/”Yo uso perfume para occupar más espacio”/”Yoshua Okón: Ventanilla única,” Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, México, D.F.
  • “Tauromaquia: mano a mano”/”Colección Alejandro Alvarado,” Museo Nacional de la Estampa, México, D.F.
  • “Robert Waters: Taparrabo,” Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México, D.F.
  • “Salón de Estampa, seis décadas de producción,” Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, México, D.F.
  • Museo Mural Diego Rivera, México, D.F.
  • Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, México, D.F.
  • Museo de Arte Popular, México, D.F.
  • Museo Franz Mayer, México, D.F.
  • Museo Templo Mayor, México, D.F.
  • Casa Luis Barragán, México, D.F.
  • “Luis Urrutia: Límites de luz,” Casa Lamm, México, D.F.
  • “Sandra Gamarra: Selección natural”/”Jorge Méndez Blake: 3 bibliotecas,” Galeria OMR, México, D.F.
  • “Jay Chung & Q. Takeki Maeda: Outtakes and Excerpts,” Gaga Arte Contemporáneo, México, D.F.
  • “Robert Morris: Films,” Hunter College Times Square Gallery
  • “Marcel Broodthaers: Ne dites pas que je ne l’ai pas dit – Le Perroquet,” Peter Freeman Gallery
  • “Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World,” The Drawing Center
  • “Pedro Friedeberg,” Reyna Henaine
  • “The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete,” Onassis Cultural Center
  • “The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–3500 B.C.,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
  • “Walton Ford: New Work,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Kaz Oshiro: Setting Sun,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Robert Ryman,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Drawn Together: Chiharu Shiota/GEGO,” Goff + Rosenthal
  • “Perlstein/Held: Five Decades,” Betty Cunningham Gallery
  • “Dan Fischer: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” Derek Eller Gallery
  • “Paul Chan: Sade for Sade’’s Sake,” Greene Naftali
  • “Wallace Berman: 1927–1976,” Nicole Klagsbrun
  • “Lynda Benglis: New Work,” Chiem & Read
  • “Jiří Kolář: The Poetics of Silence,” Pavel Zoubok
  • “Richard Serra: Blind Spot/Open Ended,” Gagosian
  • “Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery
  • “George Maciunas: 7 Paintings from the 1950s and Graphic Works,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “Spazialismo,” Bitforms
  • “Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions,” David Zwirner
  • “Gabriel Orozco,” MoMA
  • “Francis Picabia: Funny Guy,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Fairfield Porter: Paintings,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades,” McCaffrey Fine Art
  • “Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009,” Marian Goodman Gallery
  • “Paul McCarthy: White Snow,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Cy Twombly: Eight Sculptures,” Gagosian
  • “Jörg Immendorff: Maoist Paintings – The Early Seventies,” Michael Werner Gallery

december 16–december 20

Books

Films

  • Gods and Monsters, directed by Bill Condon
  • My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Ricky, dir. François Ozon
  • Red-Headed Woman, dir. Jack Conway
  • Waterloo Bridge, dir. James Whale
  • La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman), dir. Lucrecia Martel
  • La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret), dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Exhibits

  • “Francis Picabia: Funny Guy,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Fairfield Porter: Paintings,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades,” McCaffrey Fine Art
  • “Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009,” Marian Goodman Gallery
  • “Paul McCarthy: White Snow,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Cy Twombly: Eight Sculptures,” Gagosian
  • “Jörg Immendorff: Maoist Paintings – The Early Seventies,” Michael Werner Gallery

december 6–december 10

Books

Films

  • Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), directed by Pedro Almodóvar
  • ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • The Impatient Maiden, dir. James Whale
  • Sinners in Paradise, dir. James Whale
  • By Candlelight, dir. James Whale

Exhibits

  • “Gabriel Orozco,” MoMA

december 2–december 5

Books

Films

  • Zazie dans le métro, directed by Louis Malle
  • ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (What Have I Done to Deserve This?), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Kika, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Nosotros, los pobres, dir. Ismael Rodríguez
  • The Invisible Man, dir. James Whale
  • Up in the Air, dir. Jason Reitman

Exhibits

  • “Walton Ford: New Work,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Kaz Oshiro: Setting Sun,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Robert Ryman,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Drawn Together: Chiharu Shiota/GEGO,” Goff + Rosenthal
  • “Perlstein/Held: Five Decades,” Betty Cunningham Gallery
  • “Dan Fischer: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” Derek Eller Gallery
  • “Paul Chan: Sade for Sade’’s Sake,” Greene Naftali
  • “Wallace Berman: 1927–1976,” Nicole Klagsbrun
  • “Lynda Benglis: New Work,” Chiem & Read
  • “Jiří Kolář: The Poetics of Silence,” Pavel Zoubok
  • “Richard Serra: Blind Spot/Open Ended,” Gagosian
  • “Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery
  • “George Maciunas: 7 Paintings from the 1950s and Graphic Works,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “Spazialismo,” Bitforms
  • “Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions,” David Zwirner

november 26–december 1

Books

  • Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
  • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
  • Sophocles, Antigone (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
  • Julio Cortázar, We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales (trans. Gregory Rabassa)
  • Georges Perec, Life a User’s Manual

Films

  • Les amants (The Lovers), directed by Louis Malle
  • ゆきゆきて、神軍 (The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On), dir. Kazuo Hara

Exhibits

  • “The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete,” Onassis Cultural Center
  • “The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–3500 B.C.,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

november 22–november 25

Books

Exhibitions

  • “Pedro Friedeberg,” Reyna Henaine

Films

  • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by Werner Herzog
  • Mon oncle, dir. Jacques Tati
  • L’École des facteurs, dir. Jacques Tati