{"id":688,"date":"2009-01-31T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/NewYorkArtTours.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2025-02-09T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:51:21","slug":"hottest-shows-peter-doig-marlene-dumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/31\/hottest-shows-peter-doig-marlene-dumas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottest Shows:  Peter Doig &#038; Marlene Dumas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have to make it to Chelsea to see New York\u2019s hottest shows this month. Peter Doig\u2019s first New York solo show in a decade takes place on the Upper East Side at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelwerner.com\/\">Michael Werner Gallery<\/a> and in the West Village at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinbrown.biz\/\">Gavin Brown\u2019s Enterprise<\/a> where new canvases feature ping-pong players, human moths and mysterious landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the painting front, South African artist Marlene Dumas\u2019 figurative paintings in her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art are dark but arresting. Critics from the LA Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-dumas25-2008jun25,0,4194446.story\">Christopher Knight <\/a>to the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/12\/arts\/design\/12duma.html\">Roberta Smith<\/a> point out the prominent pros and cons of the show, and it\u2019s easy to walk through and create your own checklist of art historical references, not an unrewarding task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have to make it to Chelsea to see New York\u2019s hottest shows this month. Peter Doig\u2019s first New York solo show in a decade takes place on the Upper East Side at Michael Werner Gallery and in the West Village at Gavin Brown\u2019s Enterprise where new canvases feature ping-pong players, human moths and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/31\/hottest-shows-peter-doig-marlene-dumas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hottest Shows:  Peter Doig &#038; Marlene Dumas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,18,9,15,14,13,12,17,10,16,11],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-contemporary","tag-critic","tag-exhibition","tag-gallery","tag-new-york","tag-photography","tag-sculpture","tag-tour","tag-visual-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-b6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11112,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/11112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}