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In the most anticipated show of the fall—and an unprecedented act of faith in a living artist by a New York institution--the New Museum is turning over the entirety of its Bowery building to Urs Fischer, a tattoo-covered Swede best known cutting holes in walls and ripping up the floor at Gavin Brown's Enterprise . In Long Island City, P.S. 1 is making the most of its partnership with MoMA to unveil "1969," an expansive survey of art made during that turbulent year--a tribute to Robert Rauschenberg's so-called "40-year rule," which encourages young artists to seek out art made four decades earlier and steal from it. The Guggenheim is opting for a modest, eclectic approach, showing a small installation of motorized sculptures by the young German artist Kitty Kraus, a pair of works by Roni Horn and the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and a new steel sculpture commissioned from Anish Kapoor. The Brooklyn Museum is playing it cool with a survey of iconic rock n' roll photographs , and fans of the photography will also have their hands full with the International Center of Photography's third photography and video triennial. If you're looking for art of an older vintage, the Frick is displaying an exquisite collection of drawings spanning from Watteau to Degas, and the Neue Galerie is showing masterpieces by Klimt, Klee, and other Modernists. Last but not least, East Harlem's Museo del Barrio will reopen after a three-year renovation with two exhibitions spotlighting Latin American artists--just in time for the institution's 40th birthday.

New York's galleries have assembled a sprightly raft of shows this month, bringing to the city artists from all over the aesthetic map. If you're into painting, PaceWildenstein has new work by David Hockney, Friedrich Petzel is displaying the fractal-happy Sarah Morris, Gavin Brown has whimsical Los Angeles artist Laura Owens, 303 will showcase Nick Mauss, and Team Gallery has the anomie-inducing canvases of Muntean/Rosenblum. Greene Naftali will show Paul Chan's notorious Marquis de Sade projection from the Venice Biennale; James Cohan will show video artist Bill Viola; Paul Kasmin will display new Kandinsky-esque sculptures by Frank Stella; rising performance artists Francine Spiegel and Brendon Fowler will be on view at Deitch and Rental, respectively; the genre-busting Olaf Breuning will be at Metro Pictures ; actual art nun Sister Corita Kent will show at Zach Feuer ; German conceptualist Swantje Hielscher will have her U.S. debut at James Fuentes; and Fangoria-indebted sculptor Barry X Ball will be at Salon 94 Freemans . (See a sample of Ball's macabre work in our Halloween gallery.)
 
As for events in the city, the puckish neo-Pop artist Rob Pruitt has always had a thing for glitter, so it comes as no surprise that he's chosen to turn the Guggenheim's first annual art awards ceremony into a glitzy, Hollywood-style extravaganza. With presenters selected from all rungs of the art world--from Cecily Brown to... Mary Kate Olsen--the tongue-in-cheek evening will award champagne-bucket-shaped awards to honorees in categories including new artist of the year, curator of the year, and group show of the year. Meanwhile, Creative Time is hosting the "Revolutions in Public Practice" summit, a one-day conference assembling international artists and thinkers for a series of creative presentations on the interplay between art, politics, and culture. For the globetrotting set, this month will convene many of the world's most adventurous galleries at the Frieze Art Fair in London and the FIAC art fair in Paris, just in time for both cities to host their major fall contemporary art auctions.

Finally, Fall is a great time to support worthy causes in New York’s arts, with a string of galas and fundraising benefits on the way. This Saturday, THE DROP: Urban Infill Project, an organization dedicated to creating new and innovative outlets for young city artists, will have a VIP benefit party following the opening of their 2012+ exhibition; another benefit, with sponsorship from ArtWeLove, will take place on the 17th. Then the Children’s Museum of the Arts will have its annual art auction at Phillips de Pury, and the Independent Curators International (ICI) will have a fundraiser at Marquee mid-November to support the non-profit, which foments collaborations between curators and artists internationally. Have a good October!

A Cuban-born American citizen, Gonzalez-Torres is best known for his immensely generous yet rigorously conceptual art in the form of endlessly replenishable paper stacks, take-away candy spills, light strings, beaded curtains, and public billboards. With its minimalist refinement and quiet referentiality, his work treads a fine line between social commentary and personal disclosure, equivocating between the two realms and obscuring the culturally-determined distinctions that separate them. Shifting from cultural activism to intimate, autobiographical dimensions—and subsequently eroding the boundaries between—Gonzalez-Torres used the aesthetic allure of his art to stage a subtle critique of social injustice and intolerance. By creating open-ended, participatory artworks, he entrusted his viewers to engage with and ultimately activate their meaning.

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Bill Viola is internationally recognized as one of the premiere artists working in the medium of video. For over 35 years, he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, and works for television broadcast. Viola's video installations are total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound and employ state-of-the-art technologies that are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. His single channel videotapes have been broadcast and presented cinematically around the world. Viola lives and works in Long Beach, California with his wife and long time collaborator, Kira Perov.

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