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	Upcoming Show Schedule for Chelsea Art Museum SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2007-2008	Aesthetics of Terror October 30, 2008 – January 11, 2009 What happens when an image of war or terrorism moves from the newspaper or cable news network to the gallery or museum? As artists navigate these boundaries, either through direct translation or through appropriation, does violence retain its power to inspire fear and dread, or does this contextual transposition fetishize violence, stripping it of meaning through aestheticization? The Aesthetics of Terror will explore the juxtaposition/integration of the traumas of the daily news with the objets d’art that utilize the vernacular of terrorism to communicate ideas about contemporary society. Gil Shachar January – April 2009 Gil Shachar’s works explore the concept of sight; what the viewer sees and what they have yet to see. His pieces, with their shrouded subjects, evoke many different feelings about tasks of the everyday as well as our fears. By covering what the viewer assumes to be the subject of a work, one begins to wonder what the piece would look like when uncovered. This idea of covering can be likened to that of a revelation, but while covered, the subject is at its most vulnerable. Shachar’s works therefore present the viewer with a very uneasy and delicate situation impossible to remedy.
	The Incomplete Curated by Manon Slome and Hubert Neumann October 2 – January 12, 2008 This exhibition will explore the open ended, ever incomplete nature of post modern art. This exhibition is drawn exclusively from the Morton G Neumann Family Collection. In both form and content, the works in this exhibition give voice to postmodernism employment of multiplicity of artistic language and its openness to a boundless influx of information, be it from the broad context of other art forms, or other areas of interest such as literature, philosophy, science, mathematics, technology or popular culture. Moscow – New York = Parallel Play: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art February 28 – April 5, 2008 The convergence of two collections will highlight Russian and former Soviet Art from the second half of the 20th century, and considers an artistic axis of two cities of eastern and western continents representing artists living or working in these largest art capitals, and creating with their art an international context and distinctive intellectual plastic Russian “rhyme” in the international art community. It draws from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, one of largest private collections, with over 7,000 pieces by more than 300 artists from Russia and the former Soviet Union chronicling four decades of nonconformist art from the post-Stalinist era to the present. Moscow - New York= Parallel Play is organized by the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc, a US-based public foundation supporting the contemporary art of Russia and the former Soviet Union, and was first shown in the Fall of 2007 at National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow. The collection of Russian impresario Marat Guelman will feature works from the nineties to the present and include installation, photography, video and multimedia. Selections from the Collection of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy April 17 – May 17, 2008 Contemporary academic paintings in traditional media will travel from the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. Many works appearing at the Chelsea Art Museum will be leaving China for the first time to participate in this exhibition. Lynn Hershman May 29 – August 16, 2008 Lynn Hershman Leeson’s technologically innovative, interactive installations respond in real time to input from external sources in order to explore the impact of applied media on contemporary human society, from interpersonal relationships to the global economy. Her work appears in several prominent public collections and has been recognized with numerous awards. Ms. Hershman Leeson lives and works in San Francisco, California.