New York
BUFFALO
ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY
716-882-8700
“Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes From America’s Heartland” now-Jan. 22, 2012: This exhibition will feature a selection of rarely seen color photographs from the Library of Congress’ Farm Security Administration photography collection. “Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape” now-Jan. 22, 2012: Forty photographs of the American landscape.
CORNING
THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
800-732-6845
“Founders of American Studio Glass: Harvey K. Littleton” now-Jan 6. 2013: Nineteen pieces spanning the arc of his career.
LONG ISLAND CITY
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
718-956-1819
“2011 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition” now-March 4, 2012: Works by artists in residence.
NEW YORK
ANIMAZING GALLERY
212-226-7374
“Brian Froud: Visions for Film & Faerie” now-Feb. 12, 2012: The first U.S. exhibition of Brian Froud’s paintings and drawings.
ARTQUILT GALLERY
212-807-9451
“Material Witnesses: New Work From the Manhattan Quilters Guild” now-Jan. 7, 2012.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
718-638-5000
“Matthew Buckingham: The Spirit and the Letter” now-Jan. 8, 2012: A video installation. “Eva Hesse Spectres 1960” now-Jan. 8, 2012: An exhibition of rarely seen paintings by the artist Eva Hesse. “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties” now-Jan. 29, 2012: Includes some 138 paintings, sculptures and photographs by 67 artists. “HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” now-Feb. 12, 2012: more than 100 works in a wide range of mediums charting the role of gender in American art.
THE CLOISTERS
212-923-3700
“The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis” now-April 22, 2012: Exhibition of more than 30 of the Lewis Chessmen, carved from walrus ivory, from the collection of the British Museum,.
CZECH CONSULATE, BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL
310-455-2886
“2012 New York Ceramics Fair” Jan. 18-22, 2012: A group of renowned galleries and dealers present a variety of ceramics to the public. Accompanied by a series of lectures.
FORBES GALLERIES
212-206-5548
“International Art Jewelry 1895-1925” now-March 17, 2012: Exhibition that shows the enormous range of pieces made during this period.
THE FRICK COLLECTION
212-288-0700
“Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition” now-Jan. 8, 2012: Features loans from important public and private collections in Europe and the United States and will be accompanied by a full-length catalogue of the same name.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
212-423-3500
“Maurizio Cattelan: All” now-Jan. 22, 2012: The exhibition includes nearly all of the artist’s sculptural objects strung from the oculus of the Guggenheim’s Rotunda. “Pop Objects and Icons From the Guggenheim Collection” two exhibits, now-Jan. 11, 2012, now-Feb. 8, 2012: Two exhibitions exploring the world of pop culture.
NANCY HOFFMAN GALLERY
212-966-6676
“Six Days on the Road” now-Jan. 21, 2012: New paintings by Michael Gregory.
HOSFELT GALLERY
212-563-5454
“Liliana Porter” now-Jan 21, 2012: Painting, installation and photographs of the artist’s transformation of kitsch objects.
THE JEWISH MUSEUM
212-423-3200
“The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats” now-Jan. 29, 2012: Exhibition pays tribute to author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats and his groundbreaking book. “The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951” now-March 25, 2012: A comprehensive look at the Photo League, which captured city life from the end of the Depression to the start of the Cold War.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
212-535-7710
“ ’Wonder of the Age’: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900” now-Jan. 8, 2012. “9/11 Peace Story Quilt” now-Jan. 22, 2012. “Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures” now-Jan. 29, 2012. “Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire From Leonardo to Levine” now-March 4, 2012.
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
212-685-0008
“Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting From the Morgan” now-Jan. 29, 2012. “Charles Dickens at 200” now-Feb. 12, 2012: Celebrating the bicentennial of the writer’s birth with manuscripts, letters, books, photographs, illustrations and caricatures.
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
212-229-7777
“Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design” now-Jan. 15, 2012: Explores the interplay of art and design in clay, fiber, wood, metal, glass and alternative materials across the United States during the postwar era.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
212-708-9400
“de Kooning: A Retrospective” now-Jan 9, 2012: Nearly 200 works that explore the full scope of de Kooning’s almost seven decades of art, with paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints. “Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art” now-May 14, 2012: Mural panels made for the museum, plus drawings and archival materials.
NEW MUSEUM
212-219-1222
“Carsten Holler: Experience” now-Jan. 15, 2012: Exhibition of the artist’s installations, intended to transform the viewer’s sense of time and space.
SCANDINAVIA HOUSE
212-779-3587
“Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America 1912” now-Feb. 11, 2012: Forty-eight works by Nordic artists who transformed the art world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
UNITED NATIONS VISITORS’ CENTER
212-963-8687
“Design With the Other 90% Cities” now-Jan. 9, 2012: Exhibition explores the issues of unprecedented urban growth, organized by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
PEEKSKILL
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
914-788-0100
“CIRCA 1986” now-July 2012: Sixty-five artworks by 47 international artists, created between 1981-91.
ROSLYN HARBOR
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
516-484-9338
“The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany: Works From a Long Island Collection” now-March 18, 2012: More than 100 works offering an unusual glimpse into the artist’s personal world.
