The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Alexander Rodchenko, all media works from 1915 - 1939 by this very known Russian Avanguardist, till Oct. 6,1998.

The Russian Revolution of October 1917 was one of the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. It's leaders envisioned a new society. Thoroughly reshaped in accordance with their radical program of social justice. A small group of advanced artists soon embraced this vision and sought to create new forms of art that would help bring the new society into being. Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) was among the most talented of these artists. This exhibition is the first in the US to present a comprehensive overview of his work.

"The only survivors of days gone by are 'IRA' cigarettes" 1923 poster.

" The portrait of Osip Brik",photo, 1924.

Pierre Bonnard, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, till Oct. 13.

Looking does not necessarily mean seeing. To see something is to explore it visually, Pierre Bonnard - " The pleasure of seeing and it's reward ".

" Man and Woman ", 45" x28", 1900.

With Bonnard's paintings, prolonged looking leads to seeing more, enjoying and understanding more.

Mark Rothko at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, till Nov. 29.

Mark Rothko belonged to the New york School. He started with figurative and surrealistic styles but towards 1949 to 1954 his style evolved to hovering soft edged rectangles of color, it goes beyond art, transendent, sublime, almost religious. After creating such a high art one feels there is nothing beyond, may be that's the way he felt and he put an end to his life tragically.

" Earth and green ", 90.5" x 73.5", 1955.

" Cornell and Duchamp ", The Philadelphia Museum of Art, till Jan. 3.

This is a rare and unique combination, Duchamp the founder of the Dada movement, was a Frenchman who conducted his career as if for his own entertainment, he painted a moustach on the Mona Lisa, put a urinal as a work of art in a museum and announced in 1923 that he abandoned art to be a chess player. Josef Cornell was a loner he lived with his mother and an handicapped brother in Queens, spending his days in his basement where he arranged boxes and objects with bizarre objects, he did not traveled, never married and he kept a diary of imagined intimacies with a 19th century ballerina.

The two artists met in 1933 but their friendship started in 1942 when Duchamp came to Ny as a refugee from the war.

In the exhibition there are around 80 works by the two artists, the most interesting object is a box of mementos that Cornell collected about Duchamp, without Duchamp knowing about them and Duchamp's " Boite en valise ".

" Levitation ", on Sunday, Oct. 5, Koky Doctori, an artist and a friend from NY took me to a concert in the loft of the sculptor Alain Kirili & Ariane Lopez-Huici, a beautiful concert was played by the famous musician, Joe McPhee who with his friend the musician Joe Giardullo, between and with the sculptures of Kirili and the photos of Ariane.

Joe MacPhee

In 1987 at the opening of Kirili's exhibition in Marlboro gallery, another famous jazz musician played ( using drum sticks ) on the sculptures of Kirili.

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