Top five shows: July 19–25, 2012
The best of the week in art.
Wed Jul 18 2012
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“Claxons” at Haunch of Venison
Walter Robinson, Elisabeth Kley, Robert Goldman (Bobby G.) and John Drury are the four artists bringing the noise to this summer group exhibition, titled after a very loud horn. Thu 19–Aug 17
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Photograph: © 2012 Artists Rights Society
“Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000” at Museum of Modern Art
This show of child-related 20th-century high design—with toys, furniture, storybook illustrations and related items—is anything but kids’ stuff. Sun 29–Nov 5
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Photograph: The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
“Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper” at The Morgan Library & Museum
Oil studies for the Albers’s famous color series, “Homage to the Square,” are given a rare outing in the first-ever survey of this important sideline to his work. Fri 20–Oct 14
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Photograph: © Center for Visual Music
Oskar Fischinger, “Space Light Art–A Film Environment” at Whitney Museum of American Art
Arguably the first multiscreen, multimedia projection piece ever, Fischinger’s 1926 Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art) is a hallucinatory mind-blower. Through Oct 28
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Photograph: Michael Werner Gallery
James Lee Byars, “The Monument to Cleopatra” at Michael Werner
A gilded marble entablature in a vitrine is the centerpiece of this show by one of art’s most enigmatic figures. Through Aug 31
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