let’s go 30-for-30

One of my favorite things to do is to make lists, but this fall after seeing the NY magazine fall preview I decided I’d really try to make this an Art fall. So here’s their list of 30 “unmissable exhibitions ” and I’m challenging myself to see each of them. (If you bother to count, there are more than 30 because NY mag lumped a couple together in the original list.)

For my own convenience I’ve reordered them by closing date. Original article: http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2008/art/49472/

Bold exhibitions open in the next week.

• “Shit” — At Feature Inc., Aug. 27- Sept. 10–Sept. 27.
  • Gallery under construction, Aug. 30.
• “Andres Serrano: Shit” — At Yvon Lambert Gallery, Sept. 4–Oct. 4.
• “Martha Rosler: Great Power” — At Mitchell Innes and Nash, Sept. 6–Oct. 11.
• “Chris Johanson: Totalities” — At Deitch Projects, Sept. 4–Oct. 18.
• “William Pope.L: October Projects” — At Mitchell Innes and Nash, Sept. 18–Oct. 24.
• “Doug Aitken” – At 303 Gallery, Sept. 20–Nov. 1.
• “The Mobile Art Chanel Contemporary Art Container” — At Rumsey Playfield, Oct. 20– Nov. 9. Reservations required, at chanel-mobileart.com.
• “Pulse Park” In Madison Square Park, Oct. 24–Nov. 17.
• “Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: We Burn, We Shiver” — At the SculptureCenter, Sept. 7–Nov. 30.
  • One of my favorite things about SculptureCenter it is that the space itself always causes me to look twice at everything in the gallery — the dusty, quarter-full water bottle (not intended to be an art object) inadvertently left inside one of the wall beams is a case in point. Rondinone’s masterfully executed bronze casts of a bent cardboard sheet and a river stone are perfectly suited to this exhibition space.
• “Giorgio Morandi: 1890–1964” — At the Metropolitan Museum, Sept. 16–Dec. 14.
• “Carol Rama” — At Maccarone, Oct. 25–Dec. 20.
• “Cindy Sherman” — At Metro Pictures, Nov. 14–Dec. 20.
• “Susan Meiselas: In History” — At the International Center of Photography, Sept. 19–Jan. 4.
• “New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940” — At the Metropolitan Museum, Sept. 23–Jan. 4.
• “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” At the Museum of Modern Art, Sept. 21–Jan. 5.
• “Catherine Opie: American Photographer” — At the Guggenheim Museum, Sept. 26– Jan. 7.
• “theanyspacewhatever” — At the Guggenheim, Oct. 24–Jan. 7.
• “Art and China’s Revolution” — At the Asia Society, Sept. 5–Jan. 11.
• “Gilbert & George” — At the Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 3–Jan. 11.
• “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” — At the New Museum, Oct. 8–Jan. 11.
• “Street Art, Street Life” — At the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Sept. 14–Jan. 25.
• “William Eggleston, Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961–2008,” — At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nov. 7–Jan. 25.
• “Alfred Kubin Drawings, 1897–1909” — At the Neue Galerie, Sept. 25–Jan. 26.
• “Kenneth Anger” — At P.S. 1, Oct. 19–Jan. 26.
• “Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone” — At the New Museum, Oct. 22–Jan. 26.
• “Pipilotti Rist” — At MoMA, Nov. 19–Feb. 2.
• “Ron Arad” — At Friedman Benda, Nov. 7–Dec. 20; and Lever House, Dec. 11–Feb. 7.
• “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary” — At the Museum of Arts & Design, Sept. 27–Feb. 15.
• “Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926–1933” — At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 16–Feb. 15.
• “Gothic: Dark Glamour” — At the Museum at FIT, Sept. 5– Feb. 21.
• “Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool” — At the Studio Museum in Harlem, Nov. 12– Mar. 15.
• “Zoe Leonard: Hispanic Society Project” — At the Dia Art Foundation at the Hispanic Society, Nov. 5–Apr. 12.