I have been eagerly awaiting this show ever since my encounter with the artist on my trip to Mexico City. Due to the Swine Flu outbreak, I was unable to see his exhibition opening at Kurimanzutto the following day. So, off I headed on opening night to the 2nd and 6th floors of my home [...]

Overall I thought that the big fair, despite being enormous and overwhelming with some 250 galleries showing, was quite good. The work was of a high caliber and there was good energy both amongst gallery employees as well as fair visitors. But it was a serious energy, not the frenetic pace that has existed in [...]

RUBELL

Baldessari, Rubell Collection, “Beg Borrow and Steal”

It was my first visit to the Rubell Collection and I was not disappointed. The exhibition Beg, Borrow and Steal was inspired by conversations that the Rubell family had with the artists Walker and Guyton about artists who use appropriation as a key element in creating their own unique [...]

The heading has the fairs ranked from my favorite to least favorite.
NADA
NADA, though some 40 blocks from the Convention Center was a terrific fair. Not only was it small and manageable, but the quality of the work (mostly emerging artists I was unfamiliar with) was excellent and not derivative at all. Many galleries completely sold [...]

I was lucky enough to get to spend some time in Miami with a local artist who is a friend of mine. He pointed out the tagging going on all over the Wynwood and Design districts.
In addition to scheduled projects by Shepherd Fairey and Swoon, there were installations spontaneously being created on almost every wall [...]

Gearing up before my trek to Miami I tried to fit in as many gallery visits as was humanly possible. Some highlights are below.
First of all, if you get the chance you should definitely see Sarah Morris’s film “Beijing” at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Clocking in at 86 minutes (I saw a little over an hour), [...]

It was a good turnout for an opening in the middle of a glorious fall Sunday in Long Island City, Queens. But then again this is not just some small gallery having an opening, but the impressive Fisher Landau Center for Art with three floors of high ceilinged white walls where it displays wonderful works [...]

More than 12 large-scale works in color and two rooms full of smaller black and white drawings make up this show of never before seen work at Hauser and Wirth. A comment on the German folk tale of Snow White as well as the Disney version of the story, the imagery includes dwarfs with phallus [...]