This highly focused exhibition takes a look at one of the “most innovative, momentous and little studied periods in the long career of Matisse.” It begins when he left Morocco and returned to Paris in 1913 and ends when he left Paris for Nice in 1917. The works from these years are extremely reworked –abstraction [...]
I headed down to Louisville, Kentucky for the first time to check out the hotel/museum 21c owned by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson. The red penguin, seen above in pajamas for their annual pajama party fundraiser, is the logo and mascot of the establishment. The 90-room property, which occupies five 19th-century brick buildings on West [...]
Art Basel 2010. Overall, some excellent works on view. There were fewer Americans visiting than in previous years but buying still seemed to be happening for smaller ticket items. I preferred Volta and Liste which had some really great works by artists I had not heard of before and some by better-known artists for “accessible” [...]
Throughout history charms and talismans made from natural materials were given spiritual power or were believed to transmit that power to their human owners. Artists in this exhibition make art from once living materials which act as reminders of death and decay and help us to create narratives about the world and our place in [...]
The Chinese artist, Xu Bing, currently has a work on view in the “Dead or Alive” exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design. The acclaimed artist Xu Bing has worked in a variety of media throughout his career. His works are original and creative and often related to materials from the natural world. In [...]
The Tuyman’s show on the top floor of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art is a good one if you have never seen a Tuyman’s show before. Fortunately, I had seen one previously at the Tate Modern which was excellent and so I was a bit underwhelmed by this one. The exhibition is broken into [...]
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Marc Swanson, Untitled (Sitting Buck), 2009,polyurethane foam, crystals, adhesive, 34 x 40 x 50 inches,© the artist, courtesy Richard Gray Gallery, photo by Joe Mama-Nitzberg
REFLECTION: May 6- July 1, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, May 6, 6 - 8 pm
Nathan Bernstein Gallery is pleased to present Reflection, a group show featuring the [...]
Curated by Jeff Koons, the controversial exhibition “Skin Fruit,” on view until June 6th, 2010 at the New Museum, is the first exhibition in the US of Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection made up of 1,500 works by 400 artists. Pulling from one of the best collections of contemporary art in the world might be intimidating [...]
Openings at the Neue Galerie are always a treat. Not only do you get to see magnificent works of art, but you see them in a gorgeous and sophisticated environment while nibbling on tasty Austrian treats like baby Weinerschnitzel. What’s not to like?
The Otto Dix show (on view through August 30th) that opens today includes [...]
This show, the non-establishment alternative to the Whitney Biennial, organized by Vito Schnabel, and housed in a space on loan from Aby Rosen has some heavy hitters: David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Dan Colen, George Condo mixed in with emerging artists. Some good stuff on view:
Dan Colen’s easily identifiable canvas.
Nicole Stone’s tripartite work has repetition of text on the [...]