GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS
A CURRENT LISTING
John Davis Gallery 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534; (518) 828-5907; art@ johndavisgallery.com; www.johndavisgallery. com John Lees, Drawings
March 31–April 22 "…Nerval confessed in one of his progress reports to his editor: the more he wrote, the more he crossed out…only in erasure does the true image of our desire take shape."
—"Introductory note to 'Angelique' and 'Sylvie'" by Richard Sieburth, in Selected Writings by Gérard de Nerval (Penguin Classics, 1999)
This exhibition is in conjunction with a solo show of paintings by John Lees at Betty Cuningham Gallery. Wildlife Art westendantiques. com Tiger painting by Michael Banks: michaelbankswildlifeart.com
Contact: mike@westendantiques.com Shepherd / W & K Galleries 58 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075; (212) 8614050; Fax: (212) 7721314; shepherdny@ aol.com; shepherdgallery.com. Spring Exhibition: Works from the Gallery Collection March–April 2018 Shepherd Gallery presents a selection of paintings, drawings and sculpture from the gallery’s holdings of nineteenth and early twentieth century European works of art. Highlights include a pastel portrait of Alexandre Dumas, pere, by Giraud which hung in the writer’s chateau at Monte Christo; a large watercolor architectural rendering of the interior of Lessing Theatre in Berlin by Krause; a delicate portrait of a girl by Gerome from his travels to Italy in 1850; and a rare painting by Canova of The Allegory of the Arts along with a sampling of the gallery’s stock of landscapes, academic nudes, portraits and decorative arts drawings. Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New London, CT 06320; (860) 443-2545; www.lymanallyn.org. Spirited: Prohibition in America (on view April 4 – May 25, 2018), a new traveling exhibition from NEH on the Road, brings visitors back to the period of flappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance lobbyists, and real-life legends, such as Al Capone and Carry Nation! Visitors will learn about the complex issues that led America to adopt Prohibition through the 18th Amendment in 1919 until its repeal through the 21st Amendment in 1933. Swann Auction Galleries 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010; (212) 2544710; swanngalleries.com. Upcoming Auction: 19th & 20th Century Literature, May 15; Preview: May 11–15. The science fiction collection of Stanley Simon comes to auction, offering an encyclopedic library of cornerstones of the genre, with highlights including an inscribed copy of the 50 specially bound author’s editions of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and a first edition in the scarce unrestored dust jacket of Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper’s novelization of King Kong. Signed limited editions by William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf and W.B. Yeats will be offered, as well as one of 65 rare deluxe signed copies of Dylan Thomas’s Selected Poems 1934-1952. Nineteenth-century highlights include the seldom-seen first separate American edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, and the first edition in fragile wrappers of Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. American Painting Fine Art 5125 MacArthur Blvd., NW, Suite 17, Washington, DC 20016; 202-244-3244; classicamericanpainting.com; Wed. thru Sat. 11 am–7 pm, and by appointment. Current Exhibit: New Year, New Start, works by Gallery Artists, Andrei Kushnir, Michele Martin Taylor, Alexangel Estevez, Michael Francis, Carol Spils, Stevens Jay Carter and Ross Merrill. Our gallery is dedicated to the finest work in landscape, still life, genre, urban and marine art by accredited, current traditional American painters, many with national reputations. Alexandre Gallery (212) 755-2828; inquiries@alexandregallery.com; www.alexandregallery. com. Emily Nelligan: Selected Cranberry Island Drawings Marvin Bileck: Rain Makes Applesauce Extended through Saturday, April 14th. Loren MacIver: Early Work Extended through Saturday, April 14th. Boris Lurie Art Foundation 599 11th Avenue, Floor 4, New York, NY 10036 See the art of Boris Lurie and Sam Goodman in Flashes of the Future: The Art of the ‘68ers or The Power of the Powerless at the Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany from April 18 through August 19. borislurieart.org
The origins of NO!art sprout from the Jewish experience, struck root in the world's largest Jewish community, New York, a product of armies, concentration camps, Lumpenproletariat artists. Its targets are the hypocritical intelligentsia, capitalist culture manipulation, consumerism, American and other Molochs. Their aim is total unabashed self-expression in art leading to social involvement. No lighthearted Duchampesque Dadaists, Neodadaists, or "pop-artists"; no consumerism's middle class nor Nouveau Riche Liberals' neuter background makers. But believers in the unfashionable notion of Art with a capital "A". — Seymour Krim, 1963