Just opened in NYC (the UK Jan 7) is Danny Boyle's (Slumdog Millionaire) exhilarating latest film 127 Hours based on the true story and book of Aron Ralston whose hand was lodged against a boulder when he went exploring in one of the crevices of Utah's Blue John canyon. Video HERE of the press conference at the 54the BFI London Film Festival. You can see star of the film James Franco's foray into art, The Dangerous Book Four Boys, inhabiting the Clocktower Gallery, Art International Radio (thru Dec. 1).
Buddy/anti-buddy road movie Due Date teams the ever watchable Robert Downey Jr with Zack Galifianakis as they hack away at each other nerves while schlepping the road to LA. I can't be the only gal who, in her time, has briefly dated a guy fitting the description of Zack's character: lovable, loyal but infuriatingly nipping away at one's heels. Perhaps because he'd rather be wearing them;) Getting equal billing is his dog Sunny but as a whole the script lacks the rapid fire wit one was kinda hoping for from director Todd Phillips of The Hangover. There's a beguiling feminine side to Robert Downey lurking beneath, though. So not all your 96 minutes will be lost.
Just opened at The Kitchen is the U.S. premiere of Adam Pendleton’s new large scale video installation BAND - a reworking of Jean-Luc Godard's classic film Sympathy for the Devil about the Rolling Stones.
Director Anton Corbijn (Control), whose George Clooney pic The American was released in Sept shows B/W portraits of musicians, artists and icons ranging from Iggy Pop to Lucien Freud to Nelson Mandela at Stellan Holm Gallery.
Trace at bitforms gallery is the first solo NYC show of Spanish artist Daniel Canogar. Dial M for Murder is a network of tape crisscrossing the gallery and ripped from a VHS copy of Alfred Hitchcock's film. A video animation is precisely aimed at these radiating geometries and appears to constantly pump like blood along the tape, much as the head in the VCR would have done.
Exhibitions closing soon:
William Lamson's A Line Describing the Sun at The Boiler uses a mirror and Fresnel lens to burn an arcing, 366-foot line in the dried, cracked desert surface -dawn to dusk. The lens focuses the sun into a 1,600-degree point of light, which melts the dirt into bluish black glass. (thru Nov. 14)
At Sperone Westwater's new 8-storey Bowery premises designed Foster + Partners Guillermo Kuitca: Paintings 2008-2010 and Le Sacre 1992 (thru Nov 6)
Gerhard Richter's Lines Which Do Not Exist (thru Nov. 18) at the Drawing Center.
Ongoing exhibitions:
The New Museum's latest exhibition, Free (thru Jan 23), is curated by Lauren Cornell, executive director of Rhizome. Also showing is The Last Newspaper (thru January 9)
Alternative Histories at Exit Art (thru Nov 24) covers over 50 years and 130 spaces that promote(d) nonconformist artists and viewpoints.
Tony Oursler's Peak (thru Dec 5) at Lehmann Maupin (Chrystie St) is apparently the counterpoint to Valley, Oursler’s inaugural show at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media (showing online).
Simon Patterson (he of the The Great Bear of 1992- a reworking of the famous London Underground map) has his first solo NYC show since 1993.
Kevin Bourgeois' SYStm at Causey Contemporary
New show at Storefront
William Villalongo is at Susan Inglett
And anyone for Erwin Wurm's installation Selbstporträt als Gurken with painted pickles as the title suggests? (Jack Hanley Gallery)
MoMA's Abstract Expressionist New York: Ideas Not Theories (thru Feb. 28) including the great New Zealand animation forerunner Len Lye and architectural projects by Buckminster Fuller and Oscar Niemeyer. In Expressionist New York: Rock Paper Scissors (thru Feb. 28) 10 sculptors show alongside their work on paper including English artist Stanley William Hayter who should be better known in the States. Also at MoMA is Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement (thru Jan 3).
At James Cohan Gallery Distillation (thru Dec 11) by Roxy Paine (he of last summer's tree atop the Met Museum roof) shows his series of 22 Dendroids interweaving industrial pipes "a meditation on seeking purity, the pure essence of something, but at the same time the piece is very impure.” “I’m skeptical about the potential for horrible consequences, consistently realized,” he said. “But at the same time we are able to feed six billion people through science and altering nature. That’s kind of a miracle.” “I’m envisioning a kind of battlefield with these elements, which in nature would be vying for the same food source.” (quotes from the New York Times)
James Cohan artist (podcast on site) Fred Tomaselli - founding settler Williamsburg-ite is at Brooklyn Museum (thru Jan 2): perhaps Damien Hirst in a parallel universe for those who don't like DH. Hirst just lost out to the Serpentine Gallery in his bid for a new gallery space in Kensington Gardens.
For a full day, start at the new show at Laurence Miller.
Onwards to John Baldessari: Pure Beauty the show from Tate Modern is at the Metropolitan Museum (thru Jan 9). On the way of 5th Ave, stop at Central Park plaza for Ryan Gander's statue The Happy Prince.
Boetti now inhabits Marianne Boesky's wonderfully atmospheric upper East townhouse.
Knoedler's new show along the way- also check out Matt Magee in their Project space.
(thru Nov 13).
The Whitney's Paul Thek:Diver, a Retrospective (thru Jan 9) may well need another day to take everything in.
Back in Chelsea, Luc Tuymans' Corporate at David Zwirner
Matthew Buckingham at Murray Guy (thru Dec 23)
and Lombard-Fried have just opened at their new location.
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