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Exploring the Wonders of Ishtar Gate, ‘A Wonder to Behold’ at ISAW in November

Reconstructed panel of bricks with a striding lion. Neo-Babylonian Period (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604–562 BCE). Molded and glazed baked clay. Processional Way, El-Kasr Mound, Babylon, Iraq. H. 99.7 cm; W. 230.5 cm. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1931: 31.13.2. CC0 1.0 Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) presents A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate, opening new avenues for understanding one of the most spectacular achievements of the ancient world. On view from November 6, 2019, through May 24, 2020, the exhibition features 180 objects that bring to life the synthesis of masterful craftsmanship and ancient beliefs that transformed clay, minerals, and organic materials—seen as magically potent substances—into this powerful monument.

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Art Walk on the Upper East Side ~ October 30th

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Image via Newhouse + Bonnard by way of octoberartweek.com

We love the Upper East Side Art Walks. And it was by accident while stopping in at Shepherd W&K Galleries today, that we learned of the next walk, taking place during TEFAF, on Wednesday, October 30th from 5-9pm. Save the date, and download a map.

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By Hoof, Paw, Wing or Fin: Creatures in Photographs at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs

Photography, Upper East Side

Peter NISSEN (German) Circus animals from Carl Hagenbeck’s Zoological Circus, circa 1891
Albumen print, 17.2 x 23.0 cm

Animals have appeared in art for millennia as subjects of wonder, symbols of human triumphs and victims of man’s rapacity. The exhibition, By Hoof, Paw, Wing or fin, explores some of the ways in which photographers have represented animals over the course of the mediums history. Hans P. Kraus Jr. fine Photographs will open its doors to the medium’s history and feature an array of animal life, from birds, butterflies, and fish to lions, hippos, and elephants, in the work of Hill & Adamson, Alois Auer, Giacomo Caneva, J.DE. Llewelyn, Martin Munkacsi, Edward Steichen, Adam Fuss, and others.

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John Chamberlain: Baby Tycoons at Hauser & Wirth ~ September 5

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John Chamberlain. Image courtesy Hauser & Wirth

This September, Hauser & Wirth is pleased to host an exhibition of work by John Chamberlain across an entire floor of its uptown gallery, featuring a selection of small-scale sculptures from the artist’s Baby Tycoons series.

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‘Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air)’ curated by Pat Steir Opens at Lévy Gorvy Today

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Alighiero Boetti~Map (Mettere il mondo al mondo) [Putting the World Into the World], 1983 Embroidery on canvas-45.37 x 71 x 1.125 inches (115.3 x 180.3 x 2.9 cm) © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.
Yombe People, Loango Kingdom~Nail Power Figure, 19th century Wood, iron, resin, glass, fiber, textile and pigment-Height: 31 7/8 inches (81 cm). Image © Schweizer Premodern, New York. Private Collection, Courtesy of Schweizer Premodern, New York.

Lévy Gorvy Gallery New York opens its doors to the summer group exhibition, ‘Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air)‘ curated by artist Pat Steir.

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Lacock Abbey: Birthplace of Photography on Paper at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs

by AFineLyne, Photography, Upper East Side

William Henry Fox Talbot, (English, 1800-1877), Bust of Patroclus, 1842, Salt print from a calotype negative, 13.0 x 12.8 cm. Image courtesy of the gallery

Photography on paper was born in 1839 in England at Lacock Abbey. A new exhibition of photographs juxtaposes the work of its inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) with the contemporary work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Abelardo Morell, and Mike Robinson. Lacock Abbey: Birthplace of Photography on Paper will be on view at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs through May 10, 2019. The exhibition, which pays tribute to Talbot’s beloved ancestral home in Wiltshire, features architectural exteriors and interiors, still lifes, portraits, and tree studies by Talbot, complemented by interpretations from three contemporary artists, who have been inspired by his pioneering photographs.

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Desert Painters of Australia, Contemporary Indigenous Paintings to open at Gagosian NYC

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

BILL WHISKEY Rockholes and Country Near the Olga’s, 2007
Synthetic polymer paint on linen 80 3/4 x 118 1/8 in 204.9 x 300 cm
© Bill Whiskey Photo: Rob McKeever Courtesy Gagosian

Gagosian Madison Avenue will open its doors to a special exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian painting from two significant American collections. Spanning three generations, the exhibition includes works by leading painters from the Central and Western Desert regions.

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Kips Bay Decorator Show House NYC 2019

Kips Bay Designer Show House, Upper East Side

45th Annual Kips Bay Decorator House. Image via kipsbaydecoratorshowhouse.org

This year, the 47th Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House NYC will be located at 36-38 East 74th Street.

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Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes at ISAW

Art Exhibit, by AFineLyne, Upper East Side

Image: By Léon Bakst. Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé, for Daphnis et Chloé. ca. 1912. Graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund: 1933.392. Image provided by Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum.

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will open its doors to the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, an exploration of the seminal role of antiquity in shaping the radically new creations of the famed ballet troupe founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev.

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Derrick Adams: Interior Life at Luxembourg & Dayan New York

Art Exhibit, by AFineLyne, Upper East Side

Derrick Adams, Fireplace, Courtesy of Derrick Adams

Derrick Adams: Interior Life is an exhibition of new works, curated by Francesco Bonami. In this exhibition, Adams was inspired by a tenet of Catholic theology that describes “a life which seeks God in everything” ~ a mediation on the intimate spaces of one’s mind and home, each an analog for the other.

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Charlotte Perriand Exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan

Exhibits, Upper East Side

Charlotte Perriand in exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan. Images courtesy of the gallery

Charlotte Perriand is one of the most famous designers of the twentieth-century. Her pioneering furniture and interiors helped shape the modernist movement.

Venus Over Manhattan, in collaboration with Laffanour/Galerie Downtown, Paris, is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the designer. This is the largest exploration of Perriand’s work to be held in New York, comprising of thirty-seven works spanning the breadth of her almost eight-decade career.

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Intimate Immensity: Alberto Giacometti Sculptures, 1935-1945 at Luxembourg & Dayan New York

Art Exhibit, by AFineLyne, Upper East Side

Photo: Eli Lotar; Alberto Giacometti Estate/Licensed by VAGA and ARS, New York, NY, 2018. Courtesy Luxembourg & Dayan

Luxembourg & Dayan is pleased to announce ‘Intimate Immensity: Alberto Giacometti Sculptures, 1935-1945,’ the first United States exhibition dedicated exclusively to the artist’s cycle of very small human figures created in France and Switzerland during the Second World War.

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Obsessorize Arrives on Madison Avenue in October

Fashion, SVA, Upper East Side

Obsessorize 2018 between 58th/59th Streets on Madison Avenue

Update ~ Obsessorize/Dashing Through New York is currently on view at SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd Street, in the Lobby, through Saturday, March 9, 2019.

Organized by the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District and Marie Claire magazine, Obsessorize will feature 28 giant sculptures (eight-feet high) created by students at The School of Visual Arts (SVA). The 28 students were inspired by head-to-toe accessories, taking inspiration from past decades of iconic accessories. The results will be enclosed in plexiglass cases. Obsessorize will be on view from October 4 to October 30, free and open to the public located on Madison Avenue between East 57th and East 86th Streets.

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Lygia Pape Exhibition to Open at Hauser & Wirth New York

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

PAPE 86274-hires-4.jpg Red and Black Amazonino (Amazonino Vermelho e Preto) 1990Automotive paint on iron 320 x 280.5 x 91.4 cm / 126 x 110 3/8 x 36 in Image courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Lygia Pape is one of the most significant Brazilian artists of her generation, having worked in a wide-range of media including sculpture, drawing, engraving, filmmaking and installation. Her work will be on view throughout three-floors of Hauser & Wirth New York’s 69th Street gallery this September.

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White | Black @ Acquavella Galleries

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982. Black ink on paper. 2018 The Keith Haring Foundation

Acquavella Galleries opened its doors to the group exhibit, White | Black in two main gallery rooms on the parlor level of the Upper East Side gallery.

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KFAA International Art Exchange Exhibit ~ Kate Oh Gallery

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Artist June Lee. Image courtesy Kate Oh Gallery

Korean Fine Arts Association (KFAA) ~ International Art Exchange Exhibition opening at Kate Oh Gallery NYC.

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‘Nexus’ Opens at Kate Oh Gallery

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Kate Oh Gallery opens its door to the exhibit, Nexus, new prints by Ali Norman, Keigo Takahashi, and Kristine Virsis, curated by Contemporary Tibetan Artist, Pena Renzin.

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Yorkville/East Harlem Scavenger Hunt ~ with Historic District Council

East Harlem, Scavenger Hunt, Upper East Side

Photo credit: Lexington Ave at 102nd St via NYPL

The Historic Districts Council is hosting a Historical Scavenger Hunt in Yorkville and East Harlem on May 19th!

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‘Around Us’ Opens at Kate Oh Gallery

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Around Us, a group exhibition to open at Kate Oh Gallery on April 4th. Curated by contemporary Tibetan artist, Pema Rinzin, the exhibition will feature the works of 26 artists.

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‘Reflection’ @ Kate Oh Gallery

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Artist Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow. Image courtesy Kate Oh Gallery

The two-person exhibit, Reflection, featuring the works of Joness Jones and Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow, will open at Kate Oh Gallery this week.

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Allan Kaprow. Paintings New York @ Hauser & Wirth

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Allan Kaprow. Paintings New York brings to light the early works of the celebrated American artist. As an artist who immersed himself in the vibrant New York ‘downtown scene’ in the 1940s and 1950s, he created “a significant body of bold, expressive canvases that presaged his later experiments in space, activity, and performance.”

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Roy Lichtenstein 1961-63 at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

The exhibit Roy Lichtenstein: 1961-63 currently on view at Craig F. Starr Gallery is an “Important subset of Lichtenstein’s work, bringing together a selection of early paintings and drawings,” and on view for just a few more days.

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Kate Oh Gallery Presents ~ Anima Mundi

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Kate Oh Gallery kicks-off the New Year with the two-person exhibit, Anima Mundi by internationally renowned artists Celia Gerard and Emily Auchincloss ~ both of these artists were part of the gallery’s inaugural group show entitled, All in One, which may have been a prologue for what the gallery has lined up for this New Year.

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Ashley Zelinskie: Future Works at Kate Oh Gallery

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

Platonic Solids, artist Ashley Zelinskie. Image courtesy of Kate Oh Gallery

The Kate Oh Gallery will end the year with a solo exhibition of artwork entitled Future Works by the Brooklyn-based conceptual-technological artist Ashley Zelinskie, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, December 14th from 6-8pm.

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Virginia Wagner’s ‘Metropolis’ to Open at Kate Oh Gallery

Art Exhibit, Upper East Side

On the heals of the inaugural group exhibition, all in One, at Kate Oh Gallery, the artist Virginia Wagner is set to open a solo exhibit on November 9th.

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Magnum Photos ~ Inside Out at Hunter College

Event, Photography, Upper East Side

Image, Susan Meiselas, Hanging out on Baxter Street, Little Italy, NYC, 1978: Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos Inside Out, a one-day event, held on Friday, October 27th at The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

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Jean-François Rauzier: Hyperphotos at Waterhouse & Dodd

Art Exhibit, Photography, Upper East Side

Babel Kircher NYC, Jean-Francois Rauzier. Image via Waterhouse & Dodd

The internationally acclaimed French photographer, Jean-François Rauzier opens the exhibition Jean-François Rauzier: Hyperphotos at Waterhouse & Dodd New York (pop-up location) this week, with his artistic exploration of landscape and architecture in iconic Cities, including our own. Taking place at the tale end of Archtober, the exhibit debuts a selection of new works just completed in Cuba, images of New York City, Chicago, and various spectacular locations in France, to name a few.

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