BEST ART SHOWS of 2008

ART SHOWS 2008‏
ART SHOWS 2008

1. Jasper Johns "Grey" at MMA

2. "POP Art" at Philadelphia Museum

3. Roy Lichtenstein "Girls" at gagosian

4. "pipe glass bottle of rum" MOMA found art/collage

5. Elizabeth Peyton at Gavin Brown's Enterprise

6. For Your Eyes Only ; Ian Fleming & James Bond at Imperial War Museum London

7. . giorgio morandi 1890-1961 MMA through dec 14.

8. Gee's Bend Quilts at Phila Museum of Art

9 . james castle : a retrospective phila museum of art oct 14.

10. . van Gogh & the Colours of the Night" MOMA...

11. . Reverberations at Phila Academy of Art

12. . the NYC WaterFalls Olafur Eliasson

13. perelman museum of art: quilts/ kansai yamamoto kimonos/ design/ calder jewelry...

14. Diana Thater 'chess' at david zwirner ..

15. . JMW Turner at MMA

16. Buckminster Fuller :starting with the universe." national automotive museum, reno NV.

17. . real men & women of madison ave & their impact on american culture : NY Public Library Science Industry & Business library...

18. stan douglas 'humour irony & the law' at david zwirner.

19. richard prince at gagosian

20. rachel whiteread at gagosian

21. barkley l. hendricks : birth of the cool : studio museum in harlem.

RUNNERS - UP :

"Colour" at MOMA .. Dan Flavin 1964 Green Gallery at Zwirner/Wirth.. Jeff Koons MMA sculpture garden .. Catherine Lee 'The Mark Paintings' Galerie LeLong
.. "Deconstructed Geometry" Vivian Horan .. Morris Louis at Paul Kasmin.. David Smith "Sprays" Gagosian 980 Madison ... "Impressionists By the Sea," Wadsworth Athenaeum . "Colour as Field 1950-75" Smithsonian DC .. Lucien Freud at MOMA .. Charles DeMuth at Whitney.. NY Cool at Grey Art Galery .. Piotr Uklanski at gagosian. .. Ashley Bickerton at Lehmann Maupin .. Tony Feher at pace 57th.. Wayne Thiebaud : The Figure at Allan Stone.. Christopher Wool at Luhring Augustine .. adolph Gottlieb "4 Decades" at Pace 57th .. Tom sachs "Bronze Collection" Lever House... . . keith haring at per skarstedt... jack goldstein at mitchell innes & nash... Robert Indiana at paul kasmin 'hard edge" ...joan miro:painting & anti painting 1927-37. MOMA... ...al held at paul kasmin ... S&M: shrines & masquerades in cosmopolitan times at wash sq east... daniel guzman: el sol de mexico at harris liebreman gallery. ... James Wood at anton kern... Shag:voyeur at Jonathan Levine...
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15 Best ART Shows of 2007


best art shows of 2007

ART SHOWS:

1) c/o velvet underground, nyc / warhol show at glenn horowitz
2) ellsworth kelly at MOMA

3) andy warhol black & white silkscreens at larry gagosian

4 jasper johns 'allegory of painting' national gallery dc.

5) philip taaffe at gagosian.

6) richard prince 'spiritual america' guggenheim

7) joseph cornell 'navigating the imagination' san francisco museum of modern art.

8) jeff koons bunny in macys thanksgiving day parade

9) neo rauch at MMA.

10) hirst/thiebaud/chamberlain at gagosian.

11) kara walker at MMA.

lawrence weiner at the whitney.

12) the summer of love at whitney

13) robert rauschenberg 'transfer drawings from the 1960s' at jonathan o'hara.

14) unknown monet pastels & drawings @ royal academy of arts london.

15) takashi murakami at gagosian.



RUNNERS UP: . george stubbs at frick. karen kilimnick at musee d'art moderne de la ville de paris. jasper johns at art institute, chicago. david hammons at L&M. the real edie sedgwick at MOMI . richard serra 40 years at moma. glitter & doom germany at MMA. edward hopper at museum of fine arts, boston. assume vivid astral focus at john connolly. . eugene boudin at national gallery of art wash dc. richard pousette-dart at guggenheim. raymond pettibon 'heres your irony back' at david zwirner. duane hanson at van de weghe fine art . 'multiple interpretations' ny public library. charles ray at matthew marks.