“End of an Era” is a show of works by Damien Hirst at Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue (on view through March 6th); it highlights recent paintings of jewels done by Hirst as well as a “blinged out” gold-plated shelf lined with fake diamonds entitled Judgment Day (a la his Pharmacy series in which did [...]
So after a brief hiatus (sorry I have been lacking on posts recently), I managed to get out gallery hopping on Saturday and wanted to share some highlights.
Danese currently has a wonderful show up until February 6th of works on paper by some artists in their stable as well as big names like Richard Serra [...]
On view until the middle of February, Omer Fast has videos on view at both the Whitney and at Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea. A name that should be familiar to my regular readers, Omer Fast’s work befuddles me yet somehow I am transfixed. I stayed for the whole 32 minutes and 48 seconds of “Nostalgia [...]
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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 [...]
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), [...]
If you don’t know about Ethan Cohen and his gallery, you should. In 1987, he was the first gallerist in New York to show Chinese Contemporary Art. And despite the downturn because of the economy, he is still promoting his Asian artists. Currently, he has a show of Ushio Shinohara’s work, a Japanese artist, born [...]
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 [...]
The jury is still out as to how I feel about Spencer Finch’s work. I have seen it in Venice at the Biennale, in his studio on a visit, on the High Line and now in an exhibition at Postmasters Gallery which runs through November 28th. Finch explores the themes of color, light, memory and perception [...]
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 [...]
“Fourteen contemporary artists have created works about Mary Magdalene for Gallery Met, inspired by the company’s new production of Puccini’s ‘Tosca.’ Conceived and organized by Gallery Met Director Dodie Kazanjian, the exhibition takes its cue from a plot point in the opera. In the first scene of ‘Tosca,’ the painter Mario Cavaradossi is returning to [...]