Kiki Smith News

Yesterday, May 16, Lincoln Center unveiled its brand new space, The Claire Tow Theatre. This latest theatrical venue on the complex will be the new home to LCT's programming initiative LCT3. It is now also the centerpiece of a $42 million, 23,000 square foot structure on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater which also includes rehearsal and office space. It is the first live performance theater to open at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in over 40 years.

Galerie Lelong Paris and New York will exhibit key works by masters of European modernism and international contemporary artists for ART HK 12. The booth will emphasize Lelong artists who have had a significant presence in the Asia-Pacific region such as Andy Goldsworthy, Rosemary Laing, Yoko Ono, Jaume Plensa, Sean Scully, and Antoni Tàpies. This is the third consecutive year Lelong will participate in ART HK.

Galerie Lelong Paris and New York will exhibit key works by masters of European modernism and international contemporary artists for ART HK 12. The booth will emphasize Lelong artists who have had a significant presence in the Asia-Pacific region such as Andy Goldsworthy, Rosemary Laing, Yoko Ono, Jaume Plensa, Sean Scully, and Antoni Tàpies. This is the third consecutive year Lelong will participate in ART HK.

Columbia University School of the Arts will hold its Celebration of Graduates at 2:00pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, in Miller Theatre on the Morningside Campus. Graduates of the School's Master of Fine Arts programs in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts and Writing, and the Master of Arts in Film Studies will be recognized by Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty, program chairs Ira Deutchman, Arnold Aronson and Gregory Amenoff, and poetry concentration director Lucie Brock-Broido.

Opening to the public May 5, 2012, the exhibition Helmut Lang: Sculptures will present a series of enigmatic recent works from the artist's ongoing explorations into the liminal realm between abstraction and figuration. Co-curated by Mark Fletcher and Neville Wakefield, the exhibition will go on view at 24 Washington Square North and include more than twenty new sculptures by the artist.

Howard Scott Gallery presents the second solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Sati Zech, Rauschrot / Red Rush, April 19 through May 26, 2012, with an opening reception on April 19 from 6 to 8 p.m.

NYC-ARTS provides arts lovers in the tri-state area with an all-access pass to the New York City area's myriad cultural offerings: from music and dance concerts, to the theater, museums and galleries-from the classic to the contemporary.

Howard Scott Gallery presents the second solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Sati Zech, Rauschrot / Red Rush, April 19 through May 26, 2012, with an opening reception on April 19 from 6 to 8 p.m.

NYC-ARTS provides arts lovers in the tri-state area with an all-access pass to the New York City area's myriad cultural offerings: from music and dance concerts, to the theater, museums and galleries-from the classic to the contemporary.

Following the success of the acclaimed premiere of Taylor Mac's THE WALK ACROSS AMERICAN FOR MOTHER EARTH last season, La MaMa in association with the Obie Award-winning theatre company The Talking Band will present Sidney Goldfarb's play HOT LUNCH APOSTLES at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.), with preview performances starting Thursday, March 1 prior to an official press opening set for Thursday, March 8.

Following the success of the acclaimed premiere of Taylor Mac's THE WALK ACROSS AMERICAN FOR MOTHER EARTH last season, La MaMa in association with the Obie Award-winning theatre company The Talking Band will present Sidney Goldfarb's play HOT LUNCH APOSTLES at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.), with preview performances starting Thursday, March 1 prior to an official press opening set for Thursday, March 8.

Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid creatures to symbolize life's mysteries, desires and fears, opens Feb. 24 and remains on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries through May 28, 2012.

Playing House is the first in a series of 'activations' that invite artists to place site-specific artworks in the Brooklyn Museum period rooms.

Glasstress, the exhibition project organized by glass impresario Adriano Berengo for the past two Venice Biennales-each time making waves in the lagoon city-is to have its American debut at the Museum of Arts and Design on February 14th. Running through June 10, 2012, Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennale will present nearly two dozen works culled from the Venetian editions, along with work never before exhibited.

With a mission to present feminist art and explore its meaning and influence, the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is the only public space of its kind in the United States, and it celebrates its fifth anniversary in March with a wide range of public program and events.

Following the success of the acclaimed premiere of Taylor Mac's THE WALK ACROSS AMERICAN FOR MOTHER EARTH last season, La MaMa in association with the Obie Award-winning theatre company The Talking Band will present Sidney Goldfarb's play HOT LUNCH APOSTLES at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.), with preview performances starting Thursday, March 1 prior to an official press opening set for Thursday, March 8.

Playing House is the first in a series of 'activations' that invite artists to place site-specific artworks in the Brooklyn Museum period rooms.

Glasstress, the exhibition project organized by glass impresario Adriano Berengo for the past two Venice Biennales-each time making waves in the lagoon city-is to have its American debut at the Museum of Arts and Design on February 14th. Running through June 10, 2012, Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennale will present nearly two dozen works culled from the Venetian editions, along with work never before exhibited.

Artist Dana Schutz will open Gotterdammerung, a new exhibition presented in conjunction with the final opera in Wagner's epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met on January 12.

Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid creatures to symbolize life's mysteries, desires and fears, opens Feb. 24 and remains on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries through May 28, 2012.