nyc art gallery/shows/museum help for 2/25 - 3/4

yeah help me too. my older sister (the less fun one) is going to be here 3/2-3/4. where do i take her?

Take her to really boring/nerdy things, like the transit museum and historical sites.

it can't be too boring though, cause then she will bitch at me about that!

I haven't seen this yet but I want to, looks interesting if you are into outsider stuff. the New Yorker loved it.

Martin Ramirez at American Folk Art Museum

OK, the Armory show in NYC kicks off next week and we are ready with
>our alternative salon right across the street. What is now a yearly
>tradition and an awesome survey of underground and underdog artists of NYC
>and beyond, is Fountain.
> The brain-child our a late and great friend and artist, Lincoln Capla
>and his partner in crime David Kesting, it was conceived and started early
>2006 with loads of acclaim and a fantastic time. It pretty much is a group
>of artists and Brooklyn galleries pooling their resources and taking over a
>space nearby a larger "host" festival, like the NY Armory Show or Art
>Basel/Miami( ooohh that was a good time). We build out the space, walls,
>lighting, whatever we need, and we do it DIY or die.
> Listen, I talk too much, the show starts next week, I am attaching the
>site address for Fountain with all the info, who is in it and la de da.
>Please come out to support, thats the reason we do i, we support each other
>cause it doesn't pay to be selfish. xxxxoooooxxxxxooooooxxxxoo
>ill remind you about it later ok?
>GO HERE------>http://fountainexhibit.com/ny2007/index.htm

also, check www.artcal.net for listing of openings and gallery shows for that week

I just saw a fairly cool survey of contemporary design show at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum on Fifth Ave, not sure how long it lasts.

the design awards show? i thought that exhibit was mostly bullshit..so much of it was "ehhh" to begin with and most of it was kinda old...fairly cool is fair, but i dont think its worth the money

to be honest I took my kid and he got off on the novelty aspects so a saturday aft well spent but yeah none of it struck me as brilliant design or anything so SCRATCH THAT ONE

plus that promo stuff about Google maps was lame so actually fuck it

That Ramirez show at the Folk Art museum looks good. Plus it's a small museum, and right by the MOMA, so you can even do both in one shot if you have museum stamina. It's also fun to stick around the MOMA and see a film - comes with cost of admission and the theaters are surprisingly nice.

I like to take more art-inclined guests to Chelsea and walk them around the galleries there - they're free and I feel like I'm giving my guests some kind of "real New York experience" or whatever. I think there's a John Currin show still at Gagosian but not sure and too lazy to check.

PS 1 is worth a trip to LIC

The Frick is also good if you want a smaller, less overwhelming alternative to the Met.

All this might be obvious.

OK here's something design-ish a noize dude should dig. you can get a bus there from the Asia Society in Manhattan.

http://www.noguchi.org/

Brooklyn Museum is between exhibits right now, not sure what's opening in place of those Ron Mueck statues

I'd say the Devorah Sperber thing (Eye of the Artist = replicating old master paintings out of thread spools) isn't worth a trip by itself

so pissed i never made it down there for the mueck. my own fault, though :(

I went the second-last day

most of it was just okay .... but giant baby was WHOA

thx guys, keep em coming if you hear of anything else off the beaten path.

are you at Javits during the day? obvs you're a brisk walk to chelsea gallery proper.