By Teka
Apart from the seasonal apple cider and donuts, the thing I love most about this time of year is the seemingly endless visual feast – not only from the beautiful fall color here in North Carolina, but also in art spaces across the country. It seems that as soon as the last day of August is over, the art world hangs up its bathing suit and starts gearing up for fall, hands-down its busiest time. In New York and Los Angeles, the season kicked off in early September, with new shows opening at a slew of galleries all over town. Across the country, museums have begun unveiling their big fall blockbusters. I thought I’d share a round-up, in no particular order, of some of the museum shows that I’d love to see:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY - Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, on view September 22, 2009–January 3, 2010 and Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, on view September 10, 2009–November 29, 2009
- Whitney Museum of American Art, NY – Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, on view September 17, 2009-January 17, 2010
- New Museum, NY – Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty, on view October 28, 2009-January 31, 2010
- Museum of Modern Art, NY - Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity, on view November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010 (and look out for upcoming exhibitions of the work of filmmaker Tim Burton and artist Gabriel Orozco this winter)
- PS1, NY - Christian Marclay: 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, on view September 5, 2009-April 5, 2010 (some of you may remember this piece from Christian’s slide lecture at the Nasher this past spring)
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit – Alexander Gutke, on view September 11 — December 27, 2009
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston – Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance, on view October 17, 2009–January 17, 2010
- Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston - Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Veterans Project, on view
November 4, 2009-March 28, 2010 - LACMA, Los Angeles – Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics, on view October 17, 2009–February 7, 2010
- SF MoMA, San Francisco – On View: Candice Breitz, on view October 01-December 20, 2009
- Seattle Art Museum, WA – Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, on view October 15, 2009–January 31, 2010
- Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro – Dike Blair: Now and Again – Falk Visiting Artist, on view September 13, 2009 – December 6, 2009
Any other shows that have caught your eye?