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Anita Shapolsky Gallery
152 East 65th Street; Hours: Tues-Sat, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 452-1094.
Current Exhibition: Wonder Women-Lynne Drexler, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Claire Falkenstein, Perle Fine, Sonia Gechtoff, Buffie Johnson, Jeanne Miles, Joan Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Betty Parsons, Jeanne Reynal, Ethel Schwabacher and Yvonne Thomas. An exhibition by women abstract artists, whose work was so ignobly treated in the fifties and sixties. The artwork of these talented women exhibits the energy of their youth and shows their force, vitality, and individuality. November 1 – February 21, 2008.
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue, 5th Fl. (near 77th St.); Hours: Tue-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 744-2313.
Current Exhibition: Untitled (Vicarious)-Photographing the Constructed Object. An exhibition of photographs that explores the defining relationship between sculpture and photography as exemplified by a group of artists spanning several generations, which includes Cindy Sherman, David Smith, and many others. September 23 – December 20, 2008.
The Hermes Gallery
691 Madison Avenue (near 62nd St.; note: gallery is inside the boutique), 4th Fl.; Hours: Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm; Thurs, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. (Open Sundays, 12-5 p.m., during holiday season); Phone: (212) 751-3181.
Call gallery for information regarding upcoming exhibitions.
 F.Brosen: Brooklyn Bridge 2006. (Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern)
21 East 70th Street (near Madison Ave.); Hours: Tue-Fri, 9:30a.m.-5:15p.m.; Sat, 9:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Phone: (212) 535-8810.
Current Exhibitions: Coming Attractions: Poster Paintings for the Cinema by Batiste Madalena. Timed to coincide with MoMA’s exhibition, Batiste Madalena: Hand-Painted Film Posters for the Eastman Theatre, 1924–1928, which runs through April 6, 2009, the Hirschl & Adler exhibition draws on a singular collection of original poster paintings by Madalena from the cinema’s golden age of silent film, which were saved from obscurity by documentary film maker Steven Katten and his wife, Judith. November 15 – January 3, 2008. Also showing: Frederick Brosen: Coney Island. An exhibition of paintings that serve as the artist’s farewell valentine to this magical place, and a celebration of Astroland’s seductive and foreboding beauty. Brosen is interested in conveying “the core of Coney Island’s thrill; the hardscrabble, rag-tag underbelly, the slight tinge of danger.” November 20 – January 3, 2009.
Jacobson Howard Gallery
33 East 68th Street (between Park & Madison Ave.); Hours: Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 570-2362.
Current Exhibition: The Cadiz Caprices. A series of new abstract paintings and watercolors by the renowned English painter, William Tillyer. December 2 – January 17, 2008.
Leo Castelli Gallery
18 East 77th Street, #3A (between Madison & Fifth Ave.); Hours: Tue-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 249-4470.
Current Exhibition: Robert Morris, Deflationary Objects, 1962-1976. An exhibition of small-scale sculptures by the well-known American artist. Constructed of wood, plaster or lead and often painted in a light gray color that gives them their characteristic appearance, these sculptures have over the years become one of Mr. Morris’ most unique and iconic bodies of work. November 4 – December 20, 2008.
 D.Doe: New Mother No.56 (Velvet Gloves), 2007. Courtesy of Mireiile Moler,Ltd.)
4 East 77th Street (between Madison & Fifth Ave.); Hours: Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 988-1623.
Current Exhibition: A.R. Penck: Paintings from the Eighties. A solo exhibition of a group of works painted in the years immediately following the artist’s emigration from East Germany to the West, which show the artist’s continued search for a contemporary visual expression of the social contradictions present in German society during this time. October 29 – January 3, 2008.
Mireille Mosler Ltd.
35 East 67th Street (between Park & Madison Ave.); Hours: Tue-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 249-4195.
Current Exhibitions: Don Doe: New Mothers. A solo exhibition comprised of vibrant and classically composed new work on paper. Responding to popular culture and stylistically quoting fashion photography, WWII-era pinup girls, and painters such as Perugino, Hans Baldung Grien, Rubens, Raphael, and Gustave Moreau, Doe depicts the torrential conflict of parenthood as the ultimate act of creation. October 30 – December 20, 2008.
Richard L. Feigen & Co.
34 East 69th Street (between Park & Madison Ave.); Hours: Mon-Fri, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 628-0700.
Current Exhibitions: EROS: Love, Lust, and Its Consequences. Love, passion, temptation, lust, desire, union, sexual dreams, and fantasies—all these permutations of Eros have inspired artists from ancient times to the present. This exhibition brings together a select group of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and video art from the 16th century to the present, which explore the theme of Eros in its infinite permutations of form and meaning—a dynamic principle responsible for life as it is inevitably associated with death. October 30 – January 9, 2008.
Zwirner & Wirth
32 East 69th Street (between Park & Madison Ave.); Hours: Tue-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Phone: (212) 517-8677.
Current Exhibition: Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs. Zwirner & Wirth and David Zwirner (519 West 19th Street) present a two-part exhibition that aims to provide a focused overview of the Minimal and Conceptual artistic practices that emerged in Europe in the 1960s and 70s. The artists on view include Christo, Yves Klein, and others. November 5 – December 23, 2008.
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