Now on view Cheim and Read Gallery is The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, a group exhibition of women artists depicting the female form. Featuring artists such as Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Vanessa Beecroft, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Kathe Burkhart, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Jenny Holzer, Sally Mann, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman and Hellen van Meene.  Through a variety of mediums this exhibition seeks to present a collection of works which reclaim the traditional domination of the “male gaze” and reorient the significance of the female figure to allow for more varied interpretations.

The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women
Thursday, June 25—Saturday, September 19, 2009

Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street, New York
(212) 242-7727

With over 60 exhibitions set among beautiful 12th-century churches and former industrial buildings, the 40th Rencontres d’Arles is not to be missed. The carefully prepared exhibitions are mostly produced by the Rencontres team, along with artists and curators, and often travel on to other parts of the world.

Returning to Arles after over twenty years, Nan Goldin is presented in 40 Years of Ruptures, and has invited 12 photographers to participate in the exhibition Ça me touche, Nan Goldin’s Guests: David Armstrong, Marina Berio, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Antoine D’Agata, JH Engström, Jim Goldberg, Christine Fenzl, Leigh Ledare, Boris Mikhailov, Anders Petersen, Jack Pierson, Lisa Ross and Annelies Strba on view at the Atelier de Mécanique.

Additionally, Goldin is presenting three personal exhibitions: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a visual diary of her life in New York; Sisters, Saints and Sibyls, a tribute to her sister and to those rebel women fighting for survival in society; and her own collection of photographs. On Saturday, July 11, Nan Goldin will be honored with a Discovery and Book Award ceremony for her influential work in contemporary photography. Aperture originally published Goldin’s masterwork The Ballad of Sexual Dependency in 1986.

Les Rencontres d’Arles 2009

40 Years of Rencontres/40 Years of Ruptures
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
Tuesday, July 7—Sunday, September 13, 2009
10 rond-point des Arénes
13632 Arles, France
Phone: +33 (0)4 . 90967606

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency+ Tiger Lillies
Saturday, July 11, 2009  10:15 pm
Théâtre Antique

Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency: Atelier de Mécanique

Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus
December 11, 2008–February 23, 2009
MoMA, Special Exhibitions Gallery
11 West 53 Street,
New York, New York
(212) 708-9400

The Artist’ Choice is a series of exhibitions held by MoMA in which an artist serves as a curator to create an exceptionally personalized selection of artworks. For their latest show, MoMA invited renowned photographer Vik Muniz to select works from the museum’s vast collection, allowing him to leave his own distinguished mark on the exhibition.

Vik Muniz (Brazilian, b. 1961) is known for his extremely innovative way of presenting his creative ideas. He questions the function and traditions of visual representation by using unlikely materials, working with chocolate sauce, spaghetti marinara, or the detrius of hole punchers to render the subjects in his photographs. For this exhibition, Muniz has chosen a rebus, a combination of unrelated visual and linguistic elements to create a larger deductive meaning, as the organizing principle of his presentation.

The exhibition features approximately 80 works of sculpture, photography, painting, prints, drawings, video, and design objects selected and installed by the artist in a narrative sequence to create surprising juxtapositions and new meanings. Among the artists whose work was included are John Baldessari, Gordon Matta-Clark, Nan Goldin, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Eugène Atget, and Rachel Whiteread.

Aperture Foundation published the book Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer in 2005.

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Yellow, 1951, © Ellsworth Kelly
Yolk, 1999, © Kiki Smith
Timer Model No. 152, 1960, © Rodolfo Bonetto