The Art Story: Modern Art Exhibitions in New York City

Current Modern Art Exhibitions in New York

Below are the major modern art exhibitions and shows in and around New York City.

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Art History Lectures

EVENT	DESCRIPTION	LOCATION & WEBSITE	DATES
Pop Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection	Pioneered in Europe in the late 1950s, the American Pop art movement took off after finding support from critics such as Guggenheim curator Lawrence Alloway. This focused exhibition demonstrates various artists’ engagement with Pop art and the Guggenheim's ongoing interest in the legacy of the style. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg	Guggenheim Museum New York, NY	Open until February 8th, 2012
Alfred Jensen/Sol LeWitt: Systems and Transformation	This exhibition juxtaposes the work of Alfred Jensen and Sol LeWitt, two artists whose bodies of work connect to the grid and are governed by systems. Exhibited side-by-side, Jensen’s colorful and tactile diagrammatic paintings and LeWitt’s minimalist white structures reveal the vastly different outcomes that can arise from similar conceptual foundations. Sol LeWitt	Pace Gallery 32 East 57th St.	Open until February 11th, 2012
On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities	Kawara's Date paintings from each year since the inception of the Today series are brought together here in an expansive, evocative installation: a comprehensive selection of works painted in New York will be displayed in one gallery, while the second exhibition space will be devoted to the presentation of works painted in almost all other cities ever visited by the artist On Kawara	David Zwirner Gallery 519 and 525 West 19th St. (two locations)	Open until February 11th, 2012
Real/Surreal	This exhibition, drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney's permanent collection, will focus on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in twentieth century art. Works by artists such as Hopper, Sheeler, Tanguy and Lundeberg will be view, among others Edward Hopper	Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY	Open until February 12th, 2012
Three Landscapes: A Film Installation by Roy Lichtenstein	This exhibition presents a little-known triple screen film installation by Lichtenstein, unseen since its showing at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1971 as part of the groundbreaking exhibition Art and Technology. The films, newly restored by the Whitney on their original 35mm format, are testimony to Lichtenstein's experimentation with form and his fascination with cinema. Roy Lichtenstein	Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY	Open until February 12th, 2012
Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986-2011	ncluded in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated. Damien Hirst	Gagosian Galleries Madison Ave, West 21st Street, West 24th Street, and eight other locations worldwide	Open until February 18th, 2012
GRID: Works on Paper from the 1960s	The works in the exhibition include projects for sculptures, drawings for paintings, as well as drawings. All of the works share a common sensibility given their material considerations. These “musical scores” give us a better understanding of these artists’ unique processes, as well as the more private side of their practice. Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Frank Stella	Leo Castelli Gallery 18 East 77th St.	Open until February 25th, 2012
Photographic Treasures from the Collection of Alfred Stieglitz	A towering figure in early twentieth-century photography, Alfred Stieglitz was not only a master of the medium, but also a powerful tastemaker and tireless advocate for photography as a fine art in the early 1900s. This exhibition presents some forty-eight photographic treasures by Anne Brigman, Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Käsebier, Joseph Keiley, Heinrich Kühn, Edward Steichen, Clarence White and others. Alfred Stieglitz	The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY	Open until February 26th, 2012
Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years	An exhibition featuring nearly twenty works from the final two bodies of work by Jean Dubuffet. After twelve years of working on his Hourloupe cycle with a palette of primarily red, blue and black, in 1983 Dubuffet unleashed an extended color palette across the canvas, removing the borders and a representational reference point. Jean Dubuffet	Pace Gallery 510 West 25th St.	Open until March 10th, 2012
Rob Pruitt: The Andy Monument	Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed at the northwest corner of Union Square just outside the building that housed his final Factory from 1973-84 and just down the street from an earlier Factory site (1967-73). Andy Warhol	Union Square 17th St. and Broadway	Open until May 13th, 2012
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art	This exhibition will bring together key works made for Rivera's 1931 exhibition, presenting them at MoMA for the first time in nearly 80 years. Along with mural panels, the show will include full-scale drawings, smaller working drawings, archival materials related to the commission and production of these works, and designs for Rivera’s famous Rockefeller Center mural.	Museum of Modern Art New York, NY	Open until May 14th, 2012
James Rosenquist: F-111	Rosenquist took as his subject the F-111 fighter bomber plane, the newest, most technologically advanced weapon in development at the time, and positioned it, as he later explained, “flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.” F-111 will be presented as it was first exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1965. James Rosenquist	Museum of Modern Art New York, NY	Open until July 30th, 2012
Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922-1933	Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this intimate presentation features paintings and works on paper from a prolific period of Kandinsky's career. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator. Wassily Kandinsky	Guggenheim Museum New York, NY	Open until December 31st, 2012
Singular Visions	This exhibition presents twelve postwar highlights from the museum's holdings, each in its own space, in order to create intimate and compelling encounters with a single work of art. Each piece was chosen to convey a distinct impression and a specific sense of its maker's vision, whether somber or celebratory, figurative or abstract, quiet or bold. Included are works by Eleanor Antin, Jonathan Borofsky, Paul Chan, Anne Collier, Willem de Kooning, Leon Golub, Robert Grosvenor, Eva Hesse, Matthew Day Jackson, Aleksandra Mir, Robert Morris, and Ree Morton. Willem De Kooning, Eva Hesse	Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY	Open until December 31st, 2012

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