Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions
Brooklyn Museum through 1/4

A Light Conversation
Wally Cadrona and Rahel Vonmoos
a pas de deux set to Kierkegaard

Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964
Metropolitan Museum through 12/14

Sculpting Time
Sperone Westwater through 11/1

and now for some poetry....

The Stars,
Vija Celmins and Eliot Weinberger

It's Getting Dark....

A Rictus Grin
Broadway 1602 Gallery

Pretty Ugly
Gavin Brown's enterprise
Maccarone

Microwave, six
Josee Bienvenu Gallery

After Nature
New Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.newmuseum.org/ through 9/21

Kara Walker: My Complement,
My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
http://www.themodern.com/ thru 10/19

Man on Wire, current film
an irrational act done w great precision

The Code of the West: What Colorado can
teach the Democrats by Ryan Lizza
Sept 1 New Yorker

Watcher on the Hills

I believe the only news of any interest does not come from the great cities or from the councils of state, but from some lonely watcher on the hills who has a momentary glimpse of infinitude and feels the universe rushing at him. Raynor Carey Johnson

Favorites from The Program
The Video Festival at Conduit Gallery

cool off in the dark with ......

Rien du Tout by Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer, Host by Kristin Lucas, Artist Trilogy by Matt Marello, Stealing Beauty by Guy Ben-Ner, iMirror by Cao Fei, The Guest by John Bock, An Estranged Paradise by Yang Fudong, Anniversary Waltz by David Adamo

Briefly Noted:

http://www.abecedariumnyc.com/

www.dextersinister.org/library

Implant
curated by Jodie Vicenta Jacobson
for The Horticultural Society
at UBS Art Gallery, NYC 8/7 - 10/31

Pertaining to video and film:

Musical, Dana Friedman
shown at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NYC

New York Complaints Choir
P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center thru 9/15

Matrix Effect, Christian Jankowski
Marian Goodman Gallery, NYC thru 7/30

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the
the Mistress and the Tangerine,
Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach

Dali: Painting and Film
MOMA thru 9/15

And in real time: http://nycwaterfalls.org/