Julia Chesky braved the masses to document the scene at the opening of Ryan McGinley’s new show at Team Gallery.

Retna opens a new show, Desaturated, at New Image Art this Saturday.  Easy on the eyes.

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Another great show tonight.

Ryan McGinley
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
18 March – 17 April 2010

Team Gallery 83 Grand Street NY NY 10013
Team is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by the New York-based photographer Ryan McGinley. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere will run from the 18th of March through the 17th of April 2010. Team Gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor.

For his latest exhibition, Ryan McGinley has shifted his focus away from constructing a youthful sublime within the boundless American landscape and has concentrated instead on creating imagery within the confines of his New York studio. The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture. Here we see McGinley not as a chronicler of youthful adventure, but as an engine for an almost scientific cataloging of a kind of emotional optimism.
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The auction is tomorrow (3/19) in London.  SEX is fun.

Tonight.  Be there.

Joshua Liner Gallery is very pleased to present the New York/Tokyo-based collective the Barnstormers in their first group exhibition at the gallery. With over thirty-five artists featured, this is the largest exhibition to date at Joshua Liner, which will double its gallery space temporarily to accommodate the special event. Expanding to host the collective’s full spectrum of art practices, the gallery will show individual works in painting, printmaking, photography, video, installation, and other mediums by the following Barnstormer artists:

Alex Lebedev, Alice Mazorra, Bluster One, Che Jen, Chris Mendoza, Chuck Webster, Cycle, Daikon, David Ellis, Dennis McNett, Doze Green, Ge-ology, GION, Guillermo Carrion, Joey Garfield, JPL (UFO), KAMI, Kenji Hirata, Kiku Yamaguchi, KR, MADSAKI, Manny Pangilinan (WELLO), Marlene Marino, Martin Mazorra, Maya Hayuk, Mikal Hameed, Mike Houston, Mike Ming, Miyuki (Pai) Hirai, Naomi Kazama, Pablo Power, Paul Coors, Pema Rinzin, ROSTARR, Ryan McGinness, SASU, Shie Moreno, SWOON, West One, Yuri Shibuya, and Yuri Shimojo.

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W. 28th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001

Artist David Livingston has been rolling around New York with his stuffed, 6-foot-long flaccid felt penis.

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This installation is Magic, you could seriously spend a couple hours looking at it.

These are awesome.  Ji Lee writes “People don’t look at the ceiling anymore,” he aims to change that! After the jump you can see the detail and more.

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Faile has got their Deluxx Fluxx website up and running, and I have to say that it is a wild piece of interactive art.  The video games that were on the machines at their show in London, are now available to interact with online and they are pretty awesome.  One additional piece of awesome is that the sound to the games were composed by Seth Jabour from Les Savy Fav.  You can download the soundtrack below.

Download the Deluxx Fluxx Soundtrack here

In addition, Faile will be releasing two new prints today on their website at 12pm (est).  There’s even a countdown clock.

Check out this slideshow on the Guardian of photographer Nina Maria Kleivan’s images of a baby dressed up as dictators.

The Shoebox Auction & Exhibition

All around visual artist Dustin Hostetler, a.k.a. UPSO

Monica Cook creates beautiful and erotic, photo-realistic work.

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161 Do re mi fah so la si do’s (Whipits)
Zinc plated No2 cartridges
36 x 36 in

This is nice.  More at tinyvices

Spots opens tonight

Justin Van Hoy recently had the opportunity to sit down with the legendary Artist, as well as visit his new studio.

See the magic here

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