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25th – Ann Hamilton
The fact is that a swing will unwind the toughest of customer. Usually it wouldn’t even be an option in a fine art environment, but Ann Hamilton made it so at the Park Avenue Armory. In recent years,...
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26th – Daniel Buren
Daniel Buren or my wallpaper is art and maybe the other way around. There are many reasons to dislike this work. It’s too simple, it’s not enough like Art, it’s easy to make, easy to copy and easy to...
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27th – Rachel Barrett / EAB Fair
A few months back I was asked to contribute to The Common, an Amherst College Arts Journal. When I attended Hampshire College, I took several classes at Amherst and occasionally even earned a good...
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Atlas – 28th – Peter Saul / Jim Shaw
Sometimes you want to be poked in the eye by the vulgarity of this life. The jolt of pain and swirl of distortion triggers your brain to see the pulsing nonsensical core of things. A bland existence...
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29th – Inventing Abstraction
This will not be a review of Inventing Abstraction at MoMA. This is a reaction and an incomplete one based on three visits so far. I plan to go at least three more. The show is beautiful and...
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30th – Open Work
How many unremarkable corners of this city have great art in them? How many exhibitions do we miss because we didn’t hear about them though we would have loved to? You can’t walk a few blocks in...
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31st – John McLaughlin
Can 5 paintings be a show? Can it be enough to drag yourself to 73rd street? Let me ask you a better question, what makes a gallery show (read: for profit but still an exhibition) worth its salt?...
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32nd – Art Fair late edition
The reality of art fairs is that they are the visible organs of the art market exposed for view. Plenty has been written about the way this Frankenstein’s Monster of a beast lumbers forward for a...
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33rd – Collecting / Falling in Love
Nicole EisenmanSloppy Barroom Kiss, 2012Courtesy of the artist and Jungle Press As some of you know I am a print dealer. This is my full time job and I love it much of the time. The rest of the time...
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34th – Ballpoint @ the Aldrich
Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950, organized by Richard Klein, is part of a group of exhibitions dealing with the theme “Extreme Drawing” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. As some of you know, I...
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35th – Patti Smith / Just Kids
Today in the “totally late to the party” review of Books, Patti Smith’s Just Kids. I wouldn’t say that I have too much to offer in the way of literary insight, but it is a worthwhile recommendation...
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36th – Taca Sui / David Diao/ Galerie LeLong
Notes on a few shows I saw in Chelsea that may have gotten lost in the shuffle Taca Sui at Chambers Fine Art until April 19th. This show of understated black and white photography has to fight for...
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37th – Basquiat
Gagosian closed a Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective last week. Unsurprisingly, people lined up in the streets to see the show. It was a blockbuster. The only other...
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38th – Closing / Opening
Philip GustonBook 1968gouache on panel30 x 32 inches76.2 x 81.3 cm I will keep it brief this week and offer you a quick round of things to catch if you can and a list of Museum shows to look forward...
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39th – Pop vs. Gutai
The Pop Object at Acquavella Gallery and Gutai: Splendid Playground at the Guggenheim have little to do with one another except time frame (roughly the 1960’s) and the venues’ proximity. I went to...
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40th – Julie Mehretu
There are few living artists that have achieved the level of stability in success as Julie Mehretu. Relative to the currently overheated version of the art world her rise seems less meteoric than...
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41st – The New
Don Voisine, “Dub Step” (2013), oil and flasche on wood panel, 11.75 x 11.75 inches at McKenzie Fine Art (55 Orchard Street, LES) through June 9. I spend a lot of time looking for the new. I spend...
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42nd – Oldenburg and Vonnegut
MoMA doesn’t need my reviews but the Claes Oldenburg show warrants mention. Claes Oldenburg made blemished and ugly (mangy-but-loveable dog ugly) handmade objects at a time that coincided with the...
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43rd – Cheating Basel
Basel and Venice are unattainable for me at the moment. I will admit I have never been to Venice and to Basel just once. It is a lovely small city that can be strolled across in an hour or so and...
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44th – James Turrell
James Turrell doesn’t need any press or praise from me. The finite group of people who read Atlas are the choir, so I will keep the preaching to a minimum. I just want to talk about light. If you...
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