Where to Go and What to See

I don't know about everyone else, but I am pretty happy that this holiday season is finally behind us. All the traveling, and eating, and relaxing -- I couldn't take any more. So I'm thankful to the galleries that are helping us kick the year off right with a flood of openings on this week. Actually, there are so many I have almost no chance of being fair or comprehensive in my recommendations, so I'm not going to attempt either. The three shows I plan to attend, for purely personal reasons and restrained by my residence in New York, are as follows:

Martin Schoeller at Hasted Hunt, because his images are always powerful and because he is a fascinating character, as I learned when we got a chance to talk at the Images of the Year party, where he took home the portrait prize.
Ron Diorio at Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, because sometimes you want to look at photos that look like paintings.
Peter Kayafas at Sasha Wolf Gallery, because these "Recent Photographs of America" look like they were taken half a century ago.

~Miki Johnson
(Photo: © Ron Diorio, "Scorcese")

Click the link below for details on these and many (many) more events and openings.

New York Events

Janaury 9, 6-8
Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line
Artist's reception
On view through March 14
Cohen Amador Gallery
41 E. 57th St.

January 10, 6-8
Martin Schoeller: New Work
Reception for the artist
On view through February 23
Hasted Hunt
529 W. 20th St.

January 10
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: El Maestro de Modernismo
Opening
On view through March 1
Throckmorton Fine Art
145 E. 57th St.

January 10
Arbus, Avedon, Sander
Opening
On view through February 16
Pace/MacGill Gallery
32 E. 57th t.

January 10, 6-8
Ben Rose: Panoramas, New York, 1950s; Disfarmer: Women
Opening reception
On view through February 2
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 W. 23rd St.

January 10
Ron Diorio: Around Here
Opening
On view through February 23
Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
511 W. 25th, Gallery 306

January 10, 6-8
Diana Thater: Here is a text about the world...
Opening reception
On view through February 9
David Zwirner
525 W. 19th St.

January 10, 6-8
Barbara Roux: Under Cover of Trees
Opening reception
On view through February 2
A.I.R. Gallery
511 W. 25th St.

January 10, 6-8
Peter Kayafas: Recent Photographs of America
Opening reception
On view through March 1
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard St.

January 10, 7-9
Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures
Opening reception
On view through February 28
Aperture Gallery
547 W. 27th, 4th Floor

January 10, 6-8
Lisa M. Robinson: Snowbound
Opening reception
On view through February 29
Klompching Gallery
111 Front St., Suite 206, Brooklyn

January 10
powerHouse Selects 2 (group show)
Opening
On view through February 17
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main St., Brooklyn

January 11, 6-8
A Matter of Time
Opening reception
On view through February 9
Andrea Meislin Gallery
526 W. 26th, Suite 214

January 12, 6-8
Luis Gispert: El Mundo Es Tuyo (The World Is Yours)
Opening reception
On view through February 17
Zach Feuer Gallery
530 W. 24th St.

January 13, 1-3
Schapiro's Heroes
Author talk and book signing
B&H Photo
420 9th Ave.

Other Events

January 8, 6-8
Veronika Lukasova: Occurrences
Reception
On view through February 9
RayKo Photo Center
428 Third St., San Francisco

January 10-13
Photo LA
International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition
Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA

January 12, 2-5
The Death of Photography: Robert Burley, Michel Campeau, Alison Rossiter
Opening reception with the artists
On view through February 2
Stephen Bulger Gallery
1026 Queen St. West Toronto, Canada

January 12, 4-6
Inside the Box
Opening reception
On view through February 5
Howard Yezerski Gallery
14 Newbury St., Boston

January 12, 10-noon
Yamamoto Masao
Opening reception
On view through February 16
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3, Santa Monica, CA

January 12, 6-9
Pablo Guardiola
Opening reception
On view through February 16
Little Tree Gallery
34122 22nd St. (at Guerrero, San Francisco

January 12
A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection
Opening
On view through March 25
Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach, FL

January 12
JoAnn Verburg: Present Tense
Opening
On view through April 20
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN