Posting Notice

I'm on vacation this week, returning the week of August 4. No new posts until then. For now, I give you eight shows I've reviewed that are still open in NYC ordered from must-see to less-so:

1. Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim (-Sept. 28): "...enthralling and essential..."

2. Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art at the Jewish Museum (-Sept. 21): "...instructive time capsule of an exhibit, is organized around an impressive ensemble of works from many of the heavyweights..."

3. Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney (-Sept. 21): "...fifty years of his idiosyncratic designs and ideas for everything from housing to transportation, cartography and globalism..."

4. Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at the MoMA (-Oct. 20): "...a dizzying, and sometimes amusing, history lesson..."

5. Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan and Bill Wood's Business at the ICP (-Sept. 7): "uneven but eye-opening..."

6. Philip Guston at the Morgan Library & Museum (-Aug. 31): "...instructive and illuminating... "

7. Plague in Gotham! Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York at the New York Historical Society (-Nov. 2): "...recounts a couple of really bad summers in the rapidly growing city, showing how New Yorkers of all stripes responded to the outbreak in an age before modern epidemiology."

8. 2008 Altoids Award at the New Museum (-Oct. 12): "...a small and oddly flat exhibition..."