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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City : Slideshow

WNYC's Arts Datebook: February 22 - 28, 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
In a major retrospective, MoMA will showcase Cindy Sherman in her many guises. Above, an image from the artist's 'Centerfolds' series, from 1981.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Sherman has inserted herself into a variety of staged settings over her career, from clown portraits to art historical figures, the latter of which (an image from 1989) is seen above.
Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York © 2012 Cindy Sherman
In work from 2007-08, Sherman portrayed herself as a series of ladies of a certain age, encrusted with plenty of lipliner and jewels.
Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York © 2012 Cindy Sherman
Sherman again, in her 2007-08 series, looking like she's ready to attack the Meatpacking District on a Saturday night.
Collection of Stephen Flavin © 2012 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photography: Graham S. Haber, 2011
At the Morgan Library, the drawings of Dan Flavin, an artist known for his works with fluorescent light. Seen here: 'In Honor of Harold Joachim,' from 1984.
Collection of Stephen Flavin © 2012 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS). Photograph: Graham S. Haber, 2011
The Morgan exhibit is a rare opportunity to see Flavin's rough sketches and inspirations -- including 'Sails,' from 1986, seen above.
© Anne Chu, courtesy of the artist
The Brooklyn Museum is inviting contemporary artists to install works in their period galleries, such as Anne Chu -- who made this piece 'Birds of Prey (Vulture).''
© Ann Agee, courtesy of the artist
The installations in the Brooklyn Museum's period rooms are all site-specific -- intended to get artists (such as Ann Agee, above) to consider the history of those spaces.
Courtesy of the artist and DODGEgallery. Photo credit: Jan Baracz
Painter Ellen Harvey has created an installation at Dodge Gallery that riffs on the idea of historical nudes.
Courtesy of the artist and DODGEgallery. Photo credit: Jan Baracz
In this painting, Harvey pays tribute to Master of Villamagna's 'Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Two Angels.'
Photo: David Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Chamberlain was the first sculptor to employ found bits of automobiles. The piece 'Dolores James,' from 1962 will be one of the works on view at the Guggenheim.
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sammlung Brandhorst. Photo: Courtesy The Pace Gallery
Chamberlain was not entirely classifiable as an artist, labelled a minimalist, an expressionist and pop. His 1989 piece 'Lord Suckfist' is seen here.

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