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(Ariane Lopez-Huici, Dalila, 2001. Courtesy of the Artist.)

The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture presents the work of photographer Ariane Lopez-Huici through February 2nd. The exhibition focuses on Lopez-Huici’s ongoing exploration of the nude body–in images that capture an uncanny sense of liveness, easy, and spontaneity.

(TallBlondLadies, Ascendant Landing, 2006. Photo: Iris Selke.)

Performance artist Marina Abramovic curates the third installment of her performance series When Time Becomes Form, at Artists Space this week. This program features TBL (TallBlondLadies), a collaborative project between artists Anna Berndtson and Irina Runge, in a work titled Solidly Grounded, which will include a collection of three works, performed over five days for five hours per day, on December 18th through December 22nd.

(Przemek Matecki Hair [3 faces tranparenti], 2006. Courtesy of RASTER Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.)

The Raster Gallery in Poland comes to RENTAL in New York with RASTER HAIRCUT, an exhibition that explores the importance of “hair,” as a motif, and an aspect of individual and cultural identity. The exhibition features works by Polish artists Anita Grzeszykowska, Jan Smaga, Rafal Bujnowski, and Przemek Matechi, and runs through January 13th.

(Beth Campbell, Following Room, 2007. Photo: Mack Mc Farland.)

For Following Room, a site-specific solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of America Art, multimedia artist Beth Campbell investigates notions of the everyday and the common place in an installation that duplicates a reading room along a mirrored wall. On view at the Whitney through February 24th.

(Richard Serra, “Backstop” (To Thurman Munson), 1987. Courtesy of the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY.)

90 degrees The Margins as Center features works by Lynda Benglis, Richard Serra, Robert Morris, and James Turrell at the Andrea Rosen Gallery through January 24th, 2008.

Opening…


(Shirley Goldfarb, 1977, 1977. Courtesy of Zabriskie Gallery, New York.)

The Zabriskie Gallery presents Three Paintings: A Decade in the Life of Shirley Goldfarb, an exhibition of three large oil paintings that span a decade of Goldfarb’s career, and hint at the transition from her earlier abstractions of the sixties to the patterned grids of her later work. Opening at the Zabriskie Gallery December 18th through February 2nd.

An Opportunity…

(Allison Smith, The Muster, A public art event on Governor’s Island, May 14, 2005. Photo by Amy Elliot, Courtesy of The Public Art Fund.)

The Public Art Fund presents the thirteenth annual In the Public Realm, an opportunity for artists living in New York to develop and create a temporary work in a public space. Past participants have included, Alejandro Diaz, Beth Campbell, and Allison Smith, who organized The Muster on Governor’s Island in 2005. Click here for more information about deadlines and submission guidelines.