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Monica Bonvicini, White, 2003. Fluorescent lights, broken safety glass, aluminum corners, base, cube: 26 x 26 x 26 in. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
“It’s All American,” at the New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Haley Mellin.

Josephine Meckseper, American Leg, 2010. Mannequin leg in black hosiery, glass dome on pedestal, 30 x [...]

Walter De Maria, partial view of Equal Area Series, 1976–77. Installed at 19 Waverly Place, 1977. Photo: New York Magazine, October 31, 1977
Back when I was in college, I interned in the education department at Dia:Beacon and gave tours of the museum. When the weather was warm, we would start outside the building, slipping into [...]

Jennifer Rubell, Padded Cell, November 6, 2010. Cotton candy. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
Jennifer Rubell — writer, vegetable butcher, and member of the gala-as-art movement — presented her latest food installation on Saturday night at Performa 11’s “Red Party” fundraiser. Titled “Padded Cell,” Rubell’s work consisted of giant wooden box with walls made out of pink, [...]

Jeff Koons, Balloon Flower (Red), 1995–1999, on view in front of 7 World Trade Center in New York. High chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 114 x 132 x 108 in. Photos: 16 Miles

Christie’s international co-head of post-war and contemporary art Brett Gorvy notes that Jeff Koons has been very hands-on in preparing the [...]

Performance stills of work by Maria José Arjona. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

The Abramovic Studio hosted a benefit at its home at Location One on Monday night, which included interactive performance pieces by Maria José Arjona, who hid inside her mouth a diamond, which patrons worked throughout the evening to obtain, and Marta Jovanović Bosi, whose [...]

Installation views of Roxy Paine, Distillation, 2010, at James Cohan Gallery, New York. Stainless steel, glass, paint, pigment. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

Roxy Paine, Model for Distillation, 2010. Stainless steel, paint 97 x 49 3/4 x 59 in.
Roxy Paine…

Mark Leckey, GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction, October 30, 2010, at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York. Photos: 16 Miles

Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999
“Described by one commentator as the best thing they’d ever seen in a gallery, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore is an extended paean to the unadulterated bliss of nocturnal abandon. … While obviously celebratory, Fiorucci is [...]

Dan Flavin, untitled (to Barry, Mike, Chuck and Leonard), 1972-1975, at Paula Cooper, closing Saturday, October 30. Yellow and pink fluorescent light, 8 ft. x 8 ft., installed in a corridor. Photo: 16 Miles

Photographs of after-hours events at Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center, including a 1967 Otto Piene–designed “Party Room” and Marcel Duchamp, martini in [...]

Louise Bourgeois, Eyes, 1995. Granite, each 37 x 37 x 37 in. Photos: 16 Miles
“Battery Park City, the colossal landfill development on lower Manhattan’s western flank, will make a great ruin someday,” Peter Schjeldahl wrote, in the short-lived New York-based weekly 7 Days, back in 1988, when the complex was still under construction. He was [...]

Detail view of Ricci Albenda, you’re sixteen, you’re beautiful, and you’re mine., 2010, at Andrew Kreps, through October 23, 2010.
Acrylic on canvas panel, 72 x 115 in. Photo: 16 Miles

Josie Miner photographed Donald Judd’s Marfa sculptures. [History of Our World]

That’s not a Robert Morris installation. That’s a sugar-wafer installation. [Art 21 via MAN]

Ryan Trecartin’s new [...]

Robert Kinmont, Copper Pots (given a chance), 1972. Copper in seven parts with pencil and photograph on wood box. Photos: 16 Miles
There are many plenty of reasons to see “The Crude and the Rare,” the new natural resource-themed show, curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam, at Cooper Union. It is, for instance, a perfect [...]

An R. Crumb sign. Photo: 16 Miles
This tiny R. Crumb drawing is posted next to a tree outside David Zwirner as part of a project by a nonprofit called Root for Trees that uses “creative campaigns to raise environmental consciousness.”

Jeff Koons, Fingers Between Legs, 1990. Oil inks silkscreened on canvas, 95.8 x 144.1 in. Photo: Luxembourg & Dayan
Works from Jeff Koons’s “Made in Heaven” series — paintings and sculptures that depict the artist with his then-lover, Italian porn star Cicciolina, in a variety of romantic situations — have returned to New York, where many [...]

Video still from Patty Chang’s Shangri-La, 2006, at apexart, through October 30. Photo: 16 Miles

An early General Idea video, featuring a young AA Bronson. [Strange Messenger]

The Getty cleans a 1964 Douglas Wheeler painting. [Iris via MAN]

A profile of Audio Visual Arts, the scrappy East Village space that hosted a great John Fahey painting show this [...]

Installation view of “Alina Szapocznikow: My American Dream,” at Broadway 1602. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
In her superb Brooklyn Rail review of Broadway 1602’s current Alina Szapocznikow show, Carrie Moyer provides a succinct synopsis of the Szapocznikow’s life, which I will now more or less paraphrase here: Szapocznikow was born in 1926 in Poland, survived stays [...]

A still from Marcel Broodthaers’ 1969 film La Pluie (Projet pour un texte), at Marian Goodman. Photo: 16 Miles

“Chasing the Dutch Muse by Rail”: In 1986, the inimitable Israel Shenker set out to see the museums of the Netherlands via train, helped along only by “the Groot Museumboek (Big Museum Book), a 432-page, [...]

Ryan Gander, The Happy Prince, at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York, Public Art Fund. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
Depending on how one is counting, British artist Ryan Gander will soon have either two or three exhibitions open in New York. The Public Art Fund has installed The Happy Prince, a public art monument, in the [...]

Performance stills of Willi Dorner’s “Bodies in Urban Spaces,” New York, September 27, 2010. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
On Sunday morning, right at sunrise, I followed a group of about 20 performers through the deserted streets of Manhattan’s Financial District with a roving audience of around 100 people. My report is on Artinfo, and more photos [...]

Poster for the “Real Estate Show.” Photo: 16 Miles [more]
Exit Art’s newest exhibition, “Alternative Histories,” is, without any qualifications, one of the most remarkable feats of curatorial organization in recent memory. Organized by Exit Art founders Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman with the aid of numerous other researchers, it tells the stories of (and brings [...]