The Friday DART Board

Swiss-born installation artist Urs
Fischer’s 23-foot-high painted bronze 20-ton teddy bear/lamp sculpture just moved onto the Seagram Building plaza for a 5-month stay. On Wednesday afternoon, workers were waiting out the showers
before fabricating a granite pedestal for the piece. The sculpture, one from an edition of three cast in 2005-2006, is based on an 11-inch-high toy cut and sewn together by Fischer, and will be
auctioned off by Christies New York on May 11th; the pre-sale estimate is $10 million. The
unveiling is slated for today, April 8th, but wait until dark so you can see this spectacle lit up by its own lamp. All photos here: Peggy Roalf.
The DART List has been put on hold until unavoidable surgery on its server is executed. So for now The DART Board will be standing in with weekly picks in brief. Here’s a catch-up version - just enough for a week's worth of art stalking.
Duke Riley: Two Riparian Tales of Undoing. Closing Saturday, April 9 at Magnan Metz Gallery. 521 West 26th Street, NY, NY.
Spirituality works by David Wojnarowicz from 1979-1990. Closing Saturday, April 9 at PPOW Gallery. 535 West 22nd Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY.
Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989). Through April 30 at ClampArt, 521-531 West 25th Street, ground Floor, NY, NY.
Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. Through May 1 at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY. Public programs include symposiums on April 16 and April 23 and a book launch on April 29.
Marc Seguin: Failures. Through April 30 at Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 West 24th Street, NY, NY.

Junglin Lee: Wind. Through April 14 at Aperture Gallery, in association with sepiaEYE. 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY. See the monograph, Junglin Lee: Wind, with an introduction by Vicki Goldberg. At the opening (above), photographer Penelope Umbrico and Christina Caputo, Aperture's Publicity and Events Manager, discuss launch details for Penelope's forthcoming book.
Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern: From Barefoot Prophet to Avant Garde Artist. Through April 30 at Michael Werner, 4 East 77th Street, NY, NY.
Raphael Ferrer: Recent Work. Through May 7 at Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66th Street, NY, NY.
Massage: New works by Sean Paul, Pamela Rosenkranz, Georgia Sagri, and Antek Walczak, organized by Alex Kitnick. Through April 29 at Andrew Roth, 160A East 70th Street, NY, NY.
If cartooning, zines, and indie + trade publishing are your passion, plan to visit MoCCA Fest 2011, the annual comics festival, this weekend at the Lexington Avenue Armory. 68 Lexington Avenue (between 25th and 26th Streets), NY, NY. Tickets at the door: $12/day or $20 for the weekend.
This just in from our friends in Beacon, NY: A conversation with photographer Lori Grinker, Ali Rawaf, a young Iraqi refugee and American university student, and Dr. Les Roberts, Associate Professor with the Columbia University Program on Forced Migration and Health. In conjunction with the exhibition Nothing Like My Home: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis, Photographs by Lori Grinker. Saturday, April 9th, 4:30-6:30 followed by a reception. Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main Street, Beacon, NY.

And this, from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation: At the March 24th Buy What You Love benefit art auction at Marianne Boesky Gallery (above), more than 300 people came to check out the 292 pieces of art contributed by artists to the sale. Proceeds will fund approximately 20% of the Foundation’s 2011 grant programs for visual artists and cancer patients.
DART: Design Arts Daily, is a proud media sponsor of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.

