drawing exhibits to go and see!

Joan Linder
Mixed GreensChelsea
531 West 26th Street,
212-331-8888
October 11 - November 10, 2007
Opening: Thursday, October 11, 6 - 8PM

Mixed Greens is thrilled to present Joan Linder's most ambitious show to date. In this exhibition, she will exhibit two amazing projects: a fifty foot ballpoint pen drawing of The Pink
(a neighborhood bar in Buffalo, NY) and a series of evocative drawings detailing the sexual exploits and everyday life of a rabbit.

Mark Sheinkman
Von Lintel GalleryChelsea
555 West 25th Street,
212-242-0599October 11 - November 24, 2007
Opening: Thursday, October 11, 6 - 8PM
Critic Michael Amy best sums up Sheinkman's latest endeavor in the exhibition's catalog "Sheinkman now explores volume, transition, change, velocity and ephemerality, in ways he was not previously prepared to do...Mark Sheinkman's selective historical outlook provides him with the tools that are required to persuasively proclaim the ongoing relevance of abstract painting."

PAUL NOBLE: dot to dot
Friday, September 21 – Saturday, October 27, 2007

GAGOSIAN GALLERY
555 WEST 21ST STREET
NEW YORK NY 10011
T. 212.741.1111
F. 212.741.9611

Forging a unique and maverick path in the ebullient British art scene, Noble received widespread international recognition for his vast and monumental drawing project, Nobson Newtown. Drawing image after image, story after story-- at once architect and town planner, archaeologist and cartographer, social historian and activist, creator and destroyer—over the course of a decade Noble invented and described a melancholy urban vision somewhere between Le Doux’s revolutionary utopias, Sim City, and the post-holocaust wastelands pictured in the daily media. Nobson Newtown was Noble’s own fantasist master plan of a symbolic city, isometrically rendered and replete with all manner of nightmares, perversions, scatolological and libidinous excesses. A blocky, geometric font (also invented by the artist) structured many of the buildings themselves, providing yet another layer of meaning in this fascinating parody of contemporary society and the dreams of social engineers.

and, right here at Columbia!

Arthur Rackham: Drawings from the Berol Collection

Chang Octagon, RBML, Butler 6th Floor East

August 20 through October 26, 2007

This small exhibition celebrates the 140th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867). It also celebrates the recent rehousing of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s entire Rackham Collection by the Columbia University Libraries’ Conservation Department, allowing for safe storage as well as easy display. The collection, including more than 400 original drawings, 5 oil paintings, and 30 sketchbooks, was formed and donated to the Library by Dr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Berol in 1967 in honor of the centennial of Rackham’s birth. The gift complemented their earlier donation of a virtually complete collection of Rackham’s published books. Dating from childhood drawings to watercolors made for his posthumously published edition of The Wind in the Willows (1940), the Berols’ gifts document Rackham’s entire artistic life