WEDNESDAY
Collective 2 Design Fair
May 8-11
Skylight at Moynihan Station, 360 West 33rd Street
Opening: Wednesday, 6pm
Collective is a new design fair in New York City that presents a curated selection of the best in contemporary and 20th-century design from an international range of emerging and established galleries. The fair is guided by a passionate group of designers, curators, gallerists and collectors who recognize the need for a commercial and educational platform celebrating design innovation.
Jayson Musson: “Exhibit of Abstract Art” at Salon 94 Bowery
May 7 – June 21
243 Bowery
In his second solo show with the gallery, Musson was inspired by Modern Art set-pieces from the comic strip Nancy, created by the popular American comic illustrator Ernie Bushmiller who worked on the strip from the 1930’s-80’s.
Anna Maria Maiolino: “Between Senses” at Hauser & Wirth
May 7 – June 21
Opening: May 7, 6-8pm
32 East 69th Street
In a career spanning five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums, ranging from drawing, sculpture, and artist books to video and performance, she expresses through her art a bottomless concern with creative and destructive processes and, above all, the never-ending search for identity.
Mika Rottenberg: “Bowls Balls Souls Holes” at Andrea Rosen Gallery
May 7 – June 14
Opening: May 6, 6-8pm
525 West 24th Street
Debuting her newest work, Bowls Balls Souls Holes, as well as her first body of discrete, small sculptures, the exhibition illuminates the sculptural integrity that has always been consistent with her oeuvre. Bowls Balls Souls Holes, investigates cause and effect phenomena less easily traceable, such as quantum entanglement, magnetic fields, global warming, and the production of luck.
THURSDAY
Frieze New York
May 9-12
Opening: May 8, 2-8PM
Randall’s Island
Frieze New York is one of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs and takes place on Randall’s Island, Manhattan. This year, over 190 galleries internationally will be present at the fair, along with site-specific Frieze Projects, and other programming.
The Downtown Fair
May 8-11
Opening: May 8, 2-5PM
68 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street
The inaugural Downtown Fair, a new modern and contemporary art fair produced by the ownership team of Art Miami, opens its doors on May 8th in New York City. The Downtown Fair will provide a fresh alternative to acquire important never-before-exhibited works from both the primary and secondary markets in an intimate light.
Vincent Fecteau at Matthew Marks Gallery
May 9 – June 28
Opening: May 8, 6-8pm
523 West 24th Street
The six sculptures and eight collages in the exhibition comprise the artist’s complete work from the past two years. In his new sculptures, which are wall-mounted reliefs, Fecteau punctures the plane of the wall for the first time, creating a sense of depth and adding a new element of spatial complexity to his work.
Ken Price: “Large Sculptures” at Matthew Marks Gallery
May 9 – June 28
Opening: May 8, 6-8pm
522 West 22nd Street
The exhibition includes six works made between 2009 and 2011. this is the first exhibition solely devoted to Price’s large sculptures, many of which are being shown here publicly for the first time.
FRIDAY
NADA New York
May 9-11
Opening: May 9, 10am-2pm
Pier 36 at 299 South Street
This will be the third edition of NADA New York. NADA New York is dedicated to showcasing new art, and to celebrating the rising talents from around the globe.
Sterling Ruby: “SUNRISE SUNSET” at Hauser & Wirth
May 9 – July 25
511 West 18th Street
The works on view in “SUNRISE SUNSET” represent the many modes of the artist’s production but play upon a central motif: a tension between the horizon lines of the artist’s monumental paintings, and the circular forms in primary colors that are found in a mobile, the collages, and sculptures. These circles suggest celestial bodies, presenting a personal cosmology for Roby.
Rebecca Horn: “The Vertebrae Oracle” at Sean Kelly Gallery
May 10 – June 21
Opening: May 9, 6-8pm
475 Tenth Avenue
“The Vertebrae Oracle” will include a group of new sculptures and large-scale paintings on paper. As with much of Horn’s oeuvre, and particularly with the works in the exhibition, both nature and the passage of time are thematic constants.
SATURDAY
Glenn Brown at Gagosian Gallery
May 8 – June 21
Opening: May 10, 6-8pm
522 West 21st Street
In paintings completed over the last three years, including some of his largest works to date, Brown confronts traditional subjects of still life and portraiture. With characteristically fleshy textures beneath remarkably flat and glossy surfaces, the scenes evoke traditional memento mori.
SUNDAY
Hugo McCloud: “Put in Place” at Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
May 11 – June 5
Opening: May 11, 6-9pm
5A East 78th Street
“Put in Place” will present work from Hugo McCloud’s block printing series, with a focus on the use of utilitarian materials that define his practice. Paralleling the origins of Arte Povera, McCloud creates monochromatic compositions that alter the physical nature of utilitarian materials.
