Published each Monday, Happenings is Gallerist’s guide to events in the New York art world each week.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Opening: “Grisaille” at Luxembourg & Dayan
Curator and writer Alison Gingeras has put together an show built around the concept of grayscale paintings and has managed to assemble an impressive collection of artists as diverse as Richard Artschwager, Lucio Fontana, Frank Stella, and Ryan Sullivan Richard Prince and John Currin, and Jasper Johns, who loaned his painting from his own personal collection. A must! — D.D.
Luxembourg & Dayan, 64 East 77th Street, New York, 6-8 p.m.
Opening: Paul McCarthy, “The Dwarves, The Forests,” at Hauser & Wirth
The artist’s new work addresses the fairy tale of Snow White, and the Disney film based on it, revisiting territory he explored in his last show at Hauser & Wirth in New York, in 2009. Get ready for dwarves “with eyes gouged, noses dangling like flaccid phalluses, and bodies disfigured and hobbled,” according to the press release. — D.D.
Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69th Street, New York, 6-8 p.m.
Book Launch: Ai Weiwei, “Circle of Animals,” at Paul Kasmin Gallery
[Note: Paul Kasmin Gallery has rescheduled this event for Nov. 17, 6-8 p.m.] Dealer Paul Kasmin inaugurates his new gallery space—the former home of the Bungalow 8 nightclub—with the launch of a new book by Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei. — M.H.M.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 15 East 27th Street, New York, 4-7 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Screening: “Performa: Piece to Camera” at Anthology Film Archives
The Performa 11 biennial continues its “Not Funny” series at Anthology Film Archives, with another round of films in which art and humor intersect. Among the offerings are John Baldessari’s 1972 deadpan singing of Sol LeWitt’s Sentences on Contemporary Art and Eleanor Antin’s The Little Match Girl Ballet (1975), in which she images success as a Balanchine dancer. Works from the 1970s by William Wegman and Cynthia Maughan complete the set. — A.R.
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, 7 p.m., $9 general admission
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Gala: International Gala After Party Hosted by the Young Collectors Council
MGMT will play the Guggenheim as part of the after party for the Guggenheim’s annual gala, in honor of the recent opening of Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective. — M.H.M.
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, 9:30 p.m., $150 to $600
Exhibition: “The Bearden Project” at the Studio Museum in Harlem
To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of legendary African-American artist Romare Bearden’s birth, the Studio Museum has asked 100 artists to make art “inspired, influenced or informed by” his “life, work and legacy.” Pieces will be added, and the exhibition will be rearranged, in the coming months, so multiple visits are recommended. — A.R.
Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, 12-9 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Performance: Nils Bech, Bendik Giske and Sergei Tcherepnin, Look Inside, at the New Museum
Singer Nils Bech presents a music and text based performance based on his forthcoming album, Look Inside, a biographical account of the last six months of his life. —M.H.M.
New Museum Theater, 285 Bowery, New York, 7 p.m.
Opening: Terry Richardson, “Mom Dad,” at Half Gallery
Oh sure, we’ve all heard the Terry Richardson creation myths. He emerged fully formed from Dionysus’s forehead. He was trained by the CIA to photograph the world’s best partiers for blackmail purposes. The real story is stranger than fiction. This exhibition celebrates Mr. Richardson’s parents—his father a famous fashion photographer, his mother “a former Copacabana dancer, stylist and Jimi Hendrix paramour”—who split when he was very young. — D.D.
208 Forsyth Street, New York, 6-8 p.m.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Exhibition: “Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art”
Eighty years ago, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera set up shop in MoMA and proceed a series of large murals for a solo show at the museum—only the second monographic exhibition in the history of the museum, press materials note. This exhibition brings together some of those works, made on “frescoed plaster, slaked lime, and wood,” along with preparatory drawings the artist produced for the works, and for the Rockefeller Center commission, which would arouse controversy a few years later. — A.R.
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, 10:30-5:30 p.m.