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Alpha & is an exploration of the body and the body in time. The exhibition proposes, or questions, transient acts and their permanence in the physical world.[...]

Rachel Uffner Gallery is presenting until February 14th, a show of new work by Sam Moyer. In the gallery, Moyer will exhibit sculptures that explore the meeting point between the elevated language of abstract form, and familiar, universally accessible materials and processes. Incorporating photography, drawing and painting into her sculptural practice, the artist creates objects that somehow seem both handmade and prefab.[...]

Like a correspondent in the standardized Western mode, Stanley Whitney approaches the blank page of the canvas and begins to write his sentences, word by word, from the top left corner, concluding at the bottom right.[...]

Galleries have opened and closed on New York for quite some time, but for the last four years, the neighborhood once home to tenement housing has developed an intense gallery scene that keeps thriving. The Lower East Side, roughly the area bound to the north by Houston Street, to the west by the Bowery, to the south by Canal Street, and to the east by the East River, has become an alternative for young galleries seeking a space in Manhattan, but that are not willing to move into the overcrowded and overpriced Chelsea neighborhood.

During my last trip to New York, coinciding with the first couple of weeks of openings after a long August break, I ventured down to the Lower East Side to take a look at some of these galleries.[...]

Bitforms Gallery is pleased to announce a third solo exhibition with German photographic artist Michael Najjar and the world premiere of his high altitude work series.[...]

Who in the world goes to a sweltering Nevada desert for seven days to an event that boasts of an anything goes mentality? Well, approximately 50,000 thousand people. You can catch a glimpse of the Burning Man festival at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City, with Michael Smith and Mike Kelley’s first collaborative project, A Voyage of Growth and Discovery.[...]

In a detached manner, alone in the studio, Stuart Cumberland begins painting by dropping his trousers and pants to his ankles and howling the names of his forebears.[...]

Opening on September 13th until November 30th, SculptureCenter in New York presents a video installation entitled A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, the first collaborative project between Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. A six-channel video and a 30-foot tall junk sculpture is included in the installation, both featuring Baby IKKI, a character Michael Smith has been performing for more than 30 years.[...]