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Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Julia Margaret Cameron at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A pioneer of photography as a fine art form, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) was known for spiritual, soulful portraits of subjects who, like the artist herself, came from Engalnd’s Victorian upper class. These include such artists, poets and thinkers as Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Thomas Carlyle. This exhibition is the first New York museum show dedicated to Cameron in nearly a generation, and is drawn entirely from the Met’s collection. Mon 19–Jan 5
Photograph: Thomas Griesel “American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe” at Museum of Modern Art
Judging from the list of artists in this show—George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and Andrew Wyeth, among many others—viewers might be forgiven for thinking they’ve wandered into the Whitney. But no, this is indeed MoMA, which counted a painting by Hopper as one of its first pieces when it opened in 1929. In any case, the works here are second to none, and include Hopper’s brooding, magisterial House by the Railroad from 1925. Sat 17–Jan 26
Photograph: Courtesy ZieherSmith “Photo Brut” at ZieherSmith
Shows of so-called vernacular photographs (found photos, ranging from family-album fare to police mugshots) have become a gallery staple of late, for a number of reasons, including the appeal of their accidental aesthetics and their frequent detours into the uncanny. This group show attempts to expand the category by giving it a snappy new label, and by offering up some bizarre images indeed—including a series of beauty-shop images showing only the backs of coiffed female heads; a cache of old Polaroids taken off television and featuring obscure performers whose names are carefully noted on the picture margins; and a 1940s backyard portrait of an otherwise unremarkable man whose erect penis is emerging from his trousers. Through Aug 23
Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Lisa Cooley “The String and the Mirror” at Lisa Cooley
Sound as “a concept, relationship, signal, metaphor and tangent—but not a form” is the focus of this group show of sound-related artworks by artists who are both emerging and have been around for a while. Keeping with its LES setting, the exhibit takes a grittier, less tech-oriented approach to the genre than MoMA’s current survey of the field, “Soundings.” Through Aug 28
Daniel Subkoff at James Fuentes LLC
Subkoff’s work focuses on the material nature of the painted surface, and often assumes the form of Conceptual puns—for example, the torched hood of a tow truck, formerly painted in hot-rod flames; or a painting cave (as opposed to a cave painting) made out of a series of stretched canvases, cut out and stacked in front of one another to create a small tunnel. Through Sept 5
Top five shows: Aug 15–21, 2013
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