Where to Go and What to See

This is definitely one of those weeks I wish I had a teleportation device so I could go from uptown to Chelsea in a matter of seconds. If instantaneous transportation were possible, I'd start my photo tour off at The Morgan LIbrary & Museum for their first ever exhibition of modern photography, 67 portraits of artists by Irving Penn. Then over to Archive Fever at ICP, for what sounds like a pretty conceptual show for them, including "works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss." Then down to Redux for Erika Larsen's fascinating Young Blood project, an unusually fair portrait of children who hunt. At Point of View Gallery I'd catch João Pina's portrait series recording the stories of surviving prisoners from Portugal's half-century of fascist rule and at the Nailya Alexander Gallery, a new series on the human price of the Iraq war from the accomplished "war portraitist" Lori Grinker. And because my teleportation machine would of course work outside Manhattan, I'd also pop by The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego for The Photographer's Eye: A Way of Seeing, their take from the museum's archives on John Szarkowski's groundbreaking book The Photographer's Eye. (Note: These openings take place on different nights, so my transportation  device would also allow time travel.)

~Miki Johnson

(Photo: © Erika Larsen/Redux, from Young Blood)

Follow the link below for details about these and many more photo openings and events.

January 15, 6-8
Iraq: Scars and Exile, Photographs by Lori Grinker
Opening reception
On view through February 16
Nailya Alexander Gallery
24 W. 57th St., #503 (between 5th and 6th Ave.)

January 16
Octagon: Photographs by Kevin Lynch
Opening
On view through February 27
The Windows on Main: The powerHouse boilerRoom
37 Main St., Brooklyn

January 16, 6-8
William Kentridge: Seeing Double
Opening reception
On view through February 16
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 W. 57th St.

January 16, 5:30-8:30
Danielle Epstein
Opening reception
On view through February 23
Robin Rice Gallery
325 W. 11th St.

January 17, 6-8
Michael Poliza: Eyes Over Africa
Opening reception and book presentation
On view through March 17
LUMAS Editions Gallery
77 Wooster St.

January 17, 6-9
João Pina: For Your Free Thinking
Opening reception and book signing
Point of View Gallery
638 W. 28th St.

January 17, 6-8
Bill Armstrong: Renaissance
Artist's reception
On view through February 16
ClampArt
521-531 W. 25th St., Ground floor

January 17
Erika Larsen: Young Blood
Opening
On view through February 1
Redux Gallery
116 E. 16th St.

January 17, 6-8
Gus Powell: Manhattan Noon
Artist reception
On view through March 16
Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Ave.

January 17
Nicholas Nixon: Patients
Artist's reception
On view through February 16
Yossi Milo Gallery
525 W. 25th St.

January 17, 6-8
Mark Bradford: Nobody Jones
Opening reception
On view through February 23
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 W. 22nd St.

January 18
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art; The collections of Barbara Bloom
Opening
On view through May 4
International Center of Photography
1133 Ave. of the Americas (at 43rd St.)

January 18
Close Encounters: Irving Penn's Portraits of Artists and Writers
Opening
On view through April 13
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave.

January 19
Post-war Perspectives
Opening
On view through March 29
Laurence Miller Gallery
20 W. 57th St.

January 19, 5-7
Made in Woodstock IV: Work by CPW artists in residence; Jared Handelsman: Shadows
Opening reception and talk with Jared Handelsman
On view through March 30
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY

Other Events

January 15-19
FOTOFusion 2008
13th Annual International Festival of Photography and Digital Imaging
Palm Beach Photographic Centre
55 NE Second Ave., Delray Beach, FL

January 17, 6-8
Rania Matar: Lebanon at the Crossroads; Lissa Rivera: Education
Artist's talk with Rania Matar
On view through February 9
Gallery Kayafas
61 Thayer (at 450 Harrison Ave)

January 19, 1-5
Susan kae Grant: Night Journeys; Paul Taylor: Themes and Variations
Reception with music and hors d'oeuvres
Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography
52 & 56 Ave. A and 85 Ave. A
Turner Falls, MA

January 19
Stollerized: Architectural photography by Exra Stoller
Opening
On view through March 23
Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

January 19
The Photographer's Eye: A Way of Seeing
Opening
On view through April 20
The Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA

January 19, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Photography at the Poles: San Diego Natural History Museum features National Geographic photographers
Opening reception
On view through May 5
San Diego Natural History Museum
1788 El Prado, San Diego, CA