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LAST CHANCE: THE FEVERISH LIBRARY

“The Feverish Library” features a different kind of book collection (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Friedrich Petzel Gallery
537 West 22nd St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Through October 20, free, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
212-680-9467
www.petzel.com

How can you go wrong with an exhibition whose main image is a still of Burgess Meredith as book lover Henry Bemis holding up his glasses at the end of the classic Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last”? Well, there actually isn’t time enough, as today is your last chance to see a celebration of a potentially dying breed, the printed book. Taking its name from a quote by Jorge Luis Borges, “The Feverish Library,” organized in cooperation with Matthew Higgs at Friedrich Petzel in Chelsea, features works by more than three dozen artists that incorporate books and the concept of reading. Gavin Brown creates a grid of paperbacks on the floor. Cindy Sherman photographs herself in front of a bookshelf. Richard Artschwager’s “Book” is a huge open wooden tome that can’t be read. Erica Baum’s “Author” shows a cross-section of printed pages. Liam Gillick’s “Prototype Construction of One Manuscript” is a wrapped pile of four reams of red paper. The all-star collection of artists also includes works by John Baldessari, Martin Creed, Hans-Peter Feldman, Taba Auerbach, Carol Bove, Martin Kippenberger, Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, Rachel Whiteread, Sean Landers, Wolfgang Tillmans, David Hammons, and others. In addition, in a nod to Joseph Kosuth, at the front is a collection of the favorite books of Petzel artists; Dana Schutz picks Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Nicola Tyson goes with Laurie Weeks’s Zippermouth, Troy Brauntuch selects Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Sarah Morris prefers Vladimir Nabokov’s Transparent Things, and John Stezakar chooses Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

THE INFLUENTIALS

Kate Gilmore, “Between a Hard Place,” video still, 2008 (courtesy of the artist)

SVA WOMEN ALUMNI INVITE ARTISTS WHO HAVE SHAPED THEIR WORK
SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves.
Tuesday, September 13, free, 7:00
Exhibition continues at the Visual Arts Gallery (601 West 26th St.) through September 21
212-592-2145
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu

For the School of Visual Arts exhibit “The Influentials,” cocurators Amy Smith-Stewart and Carrie Lincourt invited nineteen female SVA alums to participate — while also asking each to invite a guest contributor of their own, a person who has made an impact in their lives and/or careers. Among the exciting duos (with the SVA alum listed first and their guest second) supplying multimedia works are Kate Gilmore and Marilyn Minter, Lisa Kirk and David Hammons, Suzanne McClelland and Judy Pfaff, Mika Rottenberg and Minter, Yuko Shimizu and Thomas Woodruff, Marianne Vitale and Bela Tarr, and Phoebe Washburn and her grandmother, Phebe. The show runs through September 21 at the Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, but there will be a special panel discussion on September 13 at 7:00 at the nearby SVA Theatre, where Art in America editor in chief Lindsay Pollock will lead a public talk about art and mentoring with a stellar lineup that includes McClelland, Minter, Pfaff, and Rottenberg.