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Newsletter: January 2012

NYC Gallery end of the year shows

Though most of these shows have ended they are worth making you aware of.

I am a huge fan of Simen Johan’s photographs of animals. And the most recent show at Yossi Milo Gallery (which is changing its location in the New Year) includes works from the series “Until the [...]


Brooklyn Art Museum in the Fall

Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective
This exhibition, on view in the main rotunda of the museum, shows Sanford’s work made from 2002-2009. I thoroughly enjoyed this show, not only because I like Sanford’s work and own one of his pieces, but also because it is small which allows the viewer to spend ample time digesting the [...]


St. Louis museum visits

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
I always enjoy the exhibitions at CAM because they often introduce me to artists I am unfamiliar with. And if I do know the artist, after visiting I often learn something new and look at his/her oeuvre in a whole new light. While I was pleasantly surprised [...]


NYC Gallery end of the year shows

Though most of these shows have ended they are worth making you aware of.

I am a huge fan of Simen Johan’s photographs of animals. And the most recent show at Yossi Milo Gallery (which is changing its location in the New Year) includes works from the series “Until the Kingdom Comes.” Johan [...]


Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

Highlights from Miami 2011
I honestly think this is my first trip to Miami where I was unable to see everything I wanted to. Obviously I was down there for work so I had different priorities this trip. However, I still managed to see a lot of cool stuff, and some total crap too.
The best show [...]


“Maurizio Cattelan: All” at the Guggenheim

Cattelan is an irreverent artist who is never afraid to critique authority. This survey of his work is unlike any I have seen before. It is a “full-scale declaration of the inadvisability of viewing his oeuvre within the context of a conventional retrospective.” The site-specific installation includes 130 objects, almost all produced since 1982, strung from the [...]


Newsletter: November 2011

Frieze Week in London

Well, I have been a little busy so I hope you will forgive me for not posting this sooner. It was a bit insane in London with a great deal to see in a few short days. For the first time in a long while, I did not manage to see everything [...]


Frieze Week in London

Well, I have been a little busy so I hope you will forgive me for not posting this sooner. It was a bit insane in London with a great deal to see in a few short days. For the first time in a long while, I did not manage to see everything on my list. [...]


Wolfgang Laib at SAIC

Unlimited Ocean at the Sullivan Galleries is a typical work by Wolfgang Laib; however, there is nothing typical about his work. 30,000 piles of rice (and a few made of pollen) have been meticulously placed on the gallery floor by the artist and SAIC student and alumni assistants during his ten-day residency at the School [...]


Studio visit with Jay Shinn

Jay Shinn has studios in both Dallas and New York and I have been interested in seeing his work for some time. Since the second grade Jay has known he wanted to be an artist. He experimented using oil, tempura, and pencil to make both figurative and abstract works, however, it was in the ninth [...]