Through 03.29.09
Urban China: Informal Cities

The first U.S. exhibition of Urban China magazine, the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism published in China, includes a built environment of reclaimed construction materials; a massive wall graphic combining photographs, found images, numerical data, and maps; a Flash-based, user-navigable database of photographs; and a selected collection of past issues of Urban China magazine. Together, these elements fill the lobby gallery, exploding the magazine’s radical worldview off its pages and into the physical space of the museum. The wall graphic and related objects examine how informal systems — spatial, economic, and utilitarian — act to subvert the controlled nature of urban spaces in China.

The New Museum
235 Bowery

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Through 03.31.09
Exyzt — Situation Room

Working on experimental projects, Exyzt invites architecture, video, graphic-design, botany and any other concept to become devices of expression and creation. Situation Room is a playground for [re] creation, collective action, active occupation, open demonstration, and social games. It is meant to be a space for intuitive, interactive, and collective performance. Members of Exyzt will inhabit the gallery space, making use of the furnishings as though it were a domestic space and inviting the audience to reconsider occupied areas in a well-defined timeframe.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street

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Through 04.04.09
Building Code

This is an exhibition of eight paintings in oil and acrylic by Sarah McKenzie, who paints buildings in various states of construction, referencing geometric abstraction and 20th-century Modernism. She applies paint to the canvas in ways that often break the unity of the image. Her process parallels construction and her surfaces encourage the viewer to compare the structure of the paintings with the frames of the buildings she is painting.

Jen Berkman Gallery
6 Spring Street

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Through 05.31.09
What is Sculpture? Akari from the 1986 Venice Biennale

The Noguchi Museum presents Isamu Noguchi’s Akari Light Sculptures, focusing on the examples featured in the American Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale. This display comprises eight Akari from that exhibition, along with some 20 additional designs not shown in Venice. A highlight of the exhibition is a group of unique and rarely seen Akari Light Sculptures that Noguchi created especially for the Biennale — the last the artist would make. These include the VB4 model, which is a large, “floating” pyramidal paper shade that is suspended from a cord and has been tethered to the ground by stones covered in handmade paper.

The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City