Current NYC Museum Shows

New York City is defined by regret. Regret that I cannot experience all the great things the city has to offer, like the range of shows currently going on at the city's multitude of museums. And this is not even to touch on the gallery shows that have come and gone in the last month while I travelled here and there and buried my nose in work. But that is another post. Here's what's shakin' around the museum scene.

PS1
Stephen Shore, American Surfaces
Through Jan. 23, '06

Mount Blue Shopping Center, Farmington, Maine, July 30, 1974 by Stephen Shore

Shore discusses his work in an interview on WPS1 (supposedly. I was never able to get the interview to load.) Read the Village Voice review

MoMA
New Photography '05
Through Jan. 16, '06

Featuring the photographs of Carlos Garaicoa, Bertien van Manen, Phillip Pisciotta, and Robin Rhode, this show resuscitates a dormant tradition at MoMA. Past "New Photography" shows have acted as king maker to some of the giants of contemporary phtography. Not sure about this time around, though. Read the NY Times' review (in the Int'l Herald Tribune.)

As an aside, MoMA and the Whitney (below) used to have amazing Web sites, with significant interactive components for most major shows. All that seems to have been brushed away in the last few years and now there is more or less a simple eplanation of the show and one ore two images.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Perfect Medium
Through Dec. 31

Whitney
The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography
Through Jan. 15th, 2006

Museum of the City of New York
Mythic City, Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940
Through Feb. 20, 2005

Midtown from the Queensboro Bridge, 1932 by Otto Gottscho

There will be an associated lecture on Dec. 1.

New York Changing
Douglas Levere's rephotography project, following Abbott's Changing New York.
Through Sunday, Nov 13

Contientous reviewed the work last year and The Morning News interviewed Levere about the project.