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Is paper passe? Your answer will most likely depend on whether you're reading this sentence on newsprint or on a screen. But it's safe to say that artists and designers aren't ready to quit the stuff, at least by the measure of the latest show at the Museum of Arts and Design. They are, however, willing to pierce, shred, carve and slice it. ''Slash: Paper Under the Knife,'' the third show in the museum's Materials and Process series, explores the sometimes violent, always intricate art of paper cutting. (It follows ''Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting'' and ''Pricked: Extreme Embroidery'' in 2007 and 2008.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Folded paper transcends mere craft in the Parrish Art Museum's exhibition ''Paper Transformed -- Origami.'' Here is an astonishing array of lifelike animals made of nothing but folded paper. Some of them are life-size, like a heron, its neck crooked, greeting visitors at the entrance to the show. The nearly 100 sculptures on display here, by the world's leading contemporary origami artists, were made without cutting or gluing. According to the book that accompanies the exhibition, many of the pieces were made with a single sheet of paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the exhibition "John Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956-1992" at the Cheim & Reid Gallery in New York City during June 15-16, 2007.

Reviews the art exhibition 'Works on Paper,' at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City.

The brevity of Ree Morton's art career had little to do with the usual reasons for the disappearance of talented women. Morton had married and started a family before she became a full-time artist in the late 1960s, taking just a decade to get up to speed with all the major ''isms.'' She had a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art and an installation at the South Street Seaport and was the subject of an Artforum essay by the influential critic Lucy Lippard. Then in 1977 -- just shy of her 41st birthday -- Morton died in a car accident. Her death, coming not long after those of Eva Hesse in 1970 and Robert Smithson in 1973, dealt another cruel blow to postminimal sculpture. The art world recognized her achievements with a Morton retrospective at the New Museum in 1980. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews a photography exhibition titled "Daniel Gordon: Thin Skin II," by Daniel Gordon at the Zach Feuer Gallery in New York City.

Reviews the art exhibit "Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Knowing," shown at the Drawing Center in Soho, New York.

Reviews the exhibition 'David to C é zanne: 19th Century French Drawings,' at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City until September 8, 2002.

Reviews the architecture exhibition `Archigram 1961-74,' at the Thread Waxing Space, 476 Broadway, New York City, through April 13, 1998.

The artist and poet Douglas Florian is best known for writing and illustrating award-winning children's books that are wittily educational, especially about animals. Working in gouache with collage, he depicts just about anything with an impressive combination of accuracy and improvisation and is similarly free with language. Mr. Florian, who always works on paper bags, has shown in art galleries since 1985, presenting work that is generally more abstract if no less playful than his illustrations. Here his excellent eye for color shines, and an organic multiculturalism is given full expression. Tantra, Elizabeth Murray, maps, free-range calligraphy, Marimekko handmade wrapping paper and Gerhard Richter all come to mind in this show of 33 small paintings, most done this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THURSDAY night is gallery trolling night in Chelsea, so it was not surprising last week to find a crowd upstairs at the Max Lang gallery, examining the early works of the interior designer Scott Sanders. Under the proud eye of the curator, Shirley Sanders, the crowd examined drawings like ''Self-Portrait With Rosy Cheeks,'' a crayon on paper, from 1969, which showed a grinning little boy in dark glasses who looked eerily like the 47-year-old Mr. Sanders looks today; ''Colonial Home,'' a ballpoint pen on paper, from 1977; and ''Mega Mansion,'' a marker-pen drawing on paper, from 1975, of a great house set on a hilly landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the exhibition "Romare Bearden: The Paper of Truth: Works From the Collection of Russell Goings and Evelyn Boulware" at the Upper West Side, New York City, running until December 8, 2012.

There are so many ways to talk about the cultural differences between the performance and visual art worlds (and curators seem at pains to do so, emphasizing which ''context'' an artist should be seen in, so we poor huddled masses might better direct our gazes). Comparing and contrasting the consumer mores of each world is one of the more enjoyable methods for framing the conversation. Which group tends to be titillated by nudity and which bored, for example, or which will spend lots of time to see something but not lots of money, and vice versa? When the French choreographer Marie Cool cycled through ''Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2007,'' her collaboration with the artist Fabio Balducci during Performa 07, the sizable crowd at the Clocktower Gallery hustled for the best viewing positions, getting as close to the action as possible. Audience members only gradually siphoned off as the repetitive, reductive evening wore on. (The diminutive Ms. Cool does not so much perform as mechanically enact whimsical little tasks: sliding pieces of paper together into peaks on a tabletop or deftly pushing white string into fluid patterns.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An exhibition of Haitian painting, sculpture and works on paper -- including Salnave Philippe-Auguste's ''Birds and Flowers,'' a detail of which is shown above -- will be on view at Affirmation Arts at 523 West 37th Street in Manhattan from Oct. 1 to Nov. 24, the gallery said on Tuesday. The exhibition, ''Saving Grace: A Celebration of Haitian Art,'' is being organized by a historian of Haitian art, Gerald Alexis, and will feature works from the Nader Gallery in Port-au-Prince, as well as others being lent by artists and private collectors in Haiti, Canada and the United States. Many of the best-known artists of the Haitian Renaissance, including Hector Hyppolite, Celestin Faustin, Wilson Bigaud and Prefete Duffaut, will be represented. The Nader Gallery survived the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January, but a private museum owned by the same family, and which housed some 12,000 works of art, was destroyed. Two paintings included in the exhibition, Hyppolite's ''Pot de Fleurs'' and Faustin's ''Beau Reve,'' were pulled from the wreckage and restored by art conservators working in a lab set up in Port-au-Prince by the Smithsonian Institution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thanks to El Museo del Barrio the artist Rafael Ferrer, at 77, is finally having his moment. ''Retro/Active: The Work of Rafael Ferrer,'' his first large museum survey, spans more than five decades, with nearly 200 works in just about every late-20th-century medium except film and video. The show has an immediate allure thanks to Mr. Ferrer's instinctive facility for color and materials of all kinds. The general impression is of someone who would figure out how to make art if confined to a nearly empty room. Calabash gourds appear in several sculptures. Paper bags -- a preferred drawing surface for decades -- have occasioned an exploration of the human face as mask that is almost encyclopedic in its cultural and emotional allusions. Small, wood-framed slate tablets provide an ideal surface for a series of appropriately grisaille paintings from 2005 and 2006. At El Museo enormous groupings of these works face each other across a gallery, to electrifying effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alexander Calder and Yves Tanguy -- old friends, drinking buddies and Connecticut neighbors -- are together again. Or rather, their art is, in a delightful, immersive exercise in mutual illumination at L&M Arts on the Upper East Side. Surprisingly, this has never happened before. The L&M exhibition, ''Tanguy/Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction,'' brings together 46 works from 1934 to 1956. There are 25 sculptures by Calder, including marvelously ethereal, levitating stabiles and mobiles; some of the wood-and-wire constellations; and three uncharacteristic bronze sculptures. Quite a few of these might almost have walked out of one or more of the 19 paintings and works on paper by Tanguy, some of which even include startlingly Calderesque wire structures, and nearly all of which depict oddly shaped, water-worn stones in amalgams that suggest human involvement, albeit long past. Stonehenge for pebble lovers. These formations, in varying densities, occupy vast plains that recede in increasingly atmospheric, horizon-free gradations of land, mist and sky. The colors often have a warm sunset glow -- if not a lurid afterglow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cutting, shredding, slashing and burning are usually processes associated with destruction. But on Saturday the Museum of Arts and Design will show children 5 and older how all that clipping and ripping can also play a role in creation. That's the message of Mad Family Day, which will center on the exhibition ''Slash: Paper Under the Knife.'' While the museum offers children's workshops in its Studio Sunday series (this week the theme is pop-up cards), Saturday will be its first family day since it relocated to Columbus Circle. The idea is: Hey kids, meet the new kid. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AUSTe Paintings and Works on Paper [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The hijab, or Muslim head scarf, is supposed to deflect attention. So what should we make of the model wearing a leopard-print version and an eye patch? She's the creation of Princess Hijab, an anonymous Parisian street artist, who adorns women in advertisements with impromptu black-marker ''veils'' and papers public spaces with her own hipsterish ''Hijab Ads.'' The princess is the Shepard Fairey of the French Muslim world or maybe the Naomi Klein. Is she a ''hijabist''? Or even a Muslim? We don't know. But you can see some of her work in ''The Seen and the Hidden: [Dis]covering the Veil,'' at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Midtown Manhattan. The exhibition, which includes artists from Europe and the Middle East as well as American artists of diverse backgrounds, reminds New Yorkers that debates about the veil are heating up in many communities overseas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Let's get one thing straight: John Currin can draw, but he's no draftsman. His material attraction to paint -- whether in the glowing flesh of his Cranach-inspired nudes or the crude impasto complexions of more modern subjects -- is undeniable. And life drawing has a limited role in his practice, despite his oft-professed interest in the old masters and his self-consciousness about being a figurative painter. So a certain degree of skepticism may accompany a visit to ''John Currin: Works on Paper -- A Fifteen Year Survey of Women,'' at the Andrea Rosen Gallery. What can these 77 drawings, most from the 1990s, tell us about this much-dissected artist or his way of seeing the world that we don't already know, in richer and more compelling detail, from his paintings? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sometimes it takes a family, and a persistent one at that. So it was with Mayer Kirshenblatt, a reluctant painter and accidental memoirist whose words and images form an extraordinary exhibition at the Jewish Museum. ''They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust'' contains nearly 70 canvases and a dozen works on paper. Nearly all depict scenes of Jewish (and some gentile) life in between-the-wars Poland with a charming combination of poignancy and precision. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the young French soldier Louis Althusser was taken prisoner of war by the Nazis in 1940, he tossed scraps of paper out of the train that was carrying him away, asking whoever found them to send them to his uncle in Paris. ''The last word from French soil,'' reads one. ''The train that shakes my handwriting is still rolling, and I believe that we are headed for Germany.'' So they were, and Althusser, who would later become one of France's most renowned Marxists, spent the entire war in a prison camp. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jasper Johns is a famously reticent artist. So it may strike some visitors to the Museum of Modern Art as comical when they read his words quoted in a wall label next to his 1985 painting ''Summer'': ''In my early work I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions, but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.'' Funny that Mr. Johns would view his later work, which is not much less enigmatic than his early work, as unreserved. The quotation appears in ''Focus: Jasper Johns,'' an exhibition of 87 paintings, drawings and prints from the permanent collection organized by Deborah Wye, the museum's chief curator of prints and illustrated books. The show focuses on a handful of motifs that Mr. Johns has recycled over the years, including the target, the numbers, the flag, the can of brushes and the so-called crosshatchings. Ranging in time from his first painting of the American flag in 1954-55 to a recently acquired series of works on paper from 2001, it would make an excellent introduction for anyone just getting to know Mr. Johns's work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, 1945-1965'' has a portentous, this-will-change-everything title. The show itself, at the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea through Saturday, is a big grab bag. Capricious, uneven and at times overly homogenous, it mixes together unknown gems, golden oldies and undistinguished work. But while it may ultimately reinforce as much as shake up the canon it takes to task, its relatively unfiltered view of art history is a wonderful thing to sort through. The spacious Miller gallery is lined with a thoughtfully installed parade of more than 90 small paintings, paintings on paper and drawings by nearly 70 artists whose reputations run the gamut from unknown to world famous. Most of the works were made in New York in the late 1940s and '50s. But a handful of them fall outside the show's 1945-to-1965 time slot, confusingly broadening its span to 1930-78. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TAIYO ONORATO/NICO KREBS: 'THE WHOLE SHEBANG' Marcel Broodthaers's ''Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles,'' that textbook example of postmodernism, seems to have inspired this installation by a pair of Swiss artists better known for their photography. But where Mr. Broodthaers created a fictitious museum department from a single, powerful symbol, Mr. Onorato and Mr. Krebs offer a series of oddities and one-liners. Thirty-two crudely fashioned, quasi-representational assemblages are displayed on pedestals throughout the black-walled gallery. Included are a brown paper teepee covered with peace signs, a laptop computer made of Styrofoam and painted silver, an urn oozing a Play-Doh-like substance and a small figure urinating on a cracked mirror. Birds appear to be a theme, perhaps in deference to Mr. Broodthaers: one is roasted on a spit, and another is covered with white droppings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

'DRAWING ON FILM' Direct films, which are made by drawing on or scratching into film stock, are an intriguing subset of art cinema. You might think of them as animation, structuralist film or a variant of cameraless photography. A new exhibition at the Drawing Center, a gallery normally given over to works on paper, suggests that direct films are really drawings that speed by at 24 frames a second. In the oldest film in the exhibition, ''A Colour Box'' (1935) by Len Lye, wavy lines sway to a percussive Cuban soundtrack. Grids and checkerboards expand and contract in ''Early Abstractions No. 3: Interwoven'' (1947-49), by the midcentury mystic and folk archivist Harry Smith. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LUIS CAMNITZER This pioneering Conceptual artist, who exhibits infrequently in New York City, has something new and something old in this concise solo. The new piece, ''Last Words,'' right, is a series of six large posterlike sheets of paper with a stream of printed text made up of hundreds of short, direct-address sentences: ''Tell Mom I love her. I love you all. Goodbye to my family. Don't forget me. I love all of you.'' And so on. The valedictory words suggest dire situations: I thought of cellphone calls made from the World Trade Center on 9/11. In fact all the phrases are from final statements made by death row prisoners, which Mr. Camnitzer found on the official Web site of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The sentiments subtly change in tone as the series progresses, shifting from loving farewells to giving thanks to helpful friends, including lawyers, to verbal displays of bravura. The final sentences in the piece are: ''I am ready. Tell the guys on Death Row that I'm not wearing a diaper. I can't think of anything else.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the exhibition "Impressed by Light: British Photographs From Paper Negatives, 1840-1860" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The article reviews the exhibition "Wallpaper LAB," in Chelsea, New York City, which will run through October 14, 2006.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Early Cups and Related Works on Paper," by Ken Price at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York City through June 10, 2006.