Robert Motherwell
Opens
Andrea Rosen Gallery
Amazing painter with works dug from the past. Not sure what this is for, but you can check it out through June 20, 2015
Jeff Koons
A Retrospective
Whitney Museum of American Art
Jeff Koons show has something for everyone, no matter what your taste is. And I think that is the point of this whole exhibition. Jeff Koons mines popular culture and feeds it back the icons and totems of their collective “tastes” and shares it in exquisite form, without passing judgement on whether or not these works should be considered as high-brow or low-brow. Tastey Show. Check it out.
Jeff Koons
A Retrospective—Banality Series
Whitney Museum of American Art
In one of the rooms, the Whitney as created this long, series of pedestals that you can walk along on both sides of the sculptures and see his Banality Series as a set. Very cool party of the retrospective. Jeff Koons is always playing with cultures’ sense of taste and these low brow fetishistic type objects have been raised to a high level. It is especially great to see the Michael Jackson and Bubbles the chimp sculpture. Jeff Koons has said that if he could have been anyone else in the world, he would have been Michael Jackson. This piece was created at the height of his popularity. Check it out.
Ai Weiwei
“According to What?”
20 year retrospective of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei’s work. Features tons of sculpture, video, early NYC photography as well as challenging works from the 2008 sichuan earthquake. Rebar and backpacks highlight an intense set of works that challenge the Chinese bureaucracy for it’s lack of transparency and obligation to shoddy workmanship. Thousands of children died, no one held accountable. Show of the year. Check it out.
aiweiwei.com
brooklynmuseum.org
Ai Weiwei
“According to What?”
Brooklyn Museum
His most recent installation is an excruciatingly detailed depiction of the period he was held in solitary detention. Inside 6 Minimalistic metal cubes that are dioramas. When you peer inside the portals of the cubes you get to see into his condition as a prisoner for 3 months. He was “shadowed” by 2 guards at all times who watched him eat, shower and shit. Intense and complicated document on his life challenging the Chinese regime. Check it out—straight from the 55th Venice Biennale and the Hirshorn Mueseum in DC.
brooklynmuseum.org
aiweiwei.com