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We Went To Chelsea, Vol. 1
Sergej Jensen at Anton Kern, installation view We see a lot more art than we ever get to tell people about, and we want to fix that. Towards that goal, we’ll be posting some quick hits – a paragraph...
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We Went To Chelsea, Vol. 2
Virginia Overton, "Untitled (Pedestals)", 2012, at The Kitchen. Image via tumblr user thetuesdayafter. This week, another installment of our radical idea of telling people whether the art we saw was...
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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Staff Shows
Hijack! Installation view This week at The L Magazine, I take a look at two staff shows in the city. I have mixed, but generally positive feelings about them. When French philosopher Jacques Rancière...
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We Went to Chelsea: Why Isn’t Every Show Hermaphroditic Squid?
Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street (Through 1/19) El Anatsui, Pot of Wisdom Corinna: El Anatsui’s work does nothing for me. He’s one of those masochistic artists whose painstakingly...
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Frieze New York in Images
In its third year, Frieze New York is still housed in a very large tent on Randall’s Island. All photos by Christian Grattan unless otherwise noted. We often post work we see by General Idea at art...
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Pussy Galore’s 2015 Gallery Report Card is Out
What does female representation look like at the top galleries in the city? Mostly, terrible, according to Pussy Galore’s latest report card. The report follows up on The Guerrilla Girl’s 1986 and...
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Art Basel Feels Like Last Season’s Trunk Sale
Outside the Miami Convention Center this reproduction of Charles C. Ebbets famous photograph “Workers at Lunch” circled the block. Meanwhile, Uber promoters stationed nearby gave out $20 coupons to...
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We Went to The Armory Show: HOW TO SPEND IT
It’s not an art fair until you spot an Alex Katz! There were (of course) many at The Armory Show this year, but this one at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris/Pantin/Salzburg) was probably the biggest and...
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Friday Links: “The Fucked-up-ness of American Culture”
Barkley Hendricks, “In the Crosshairs of the States” Iggy Pop was at the MoCA Detroit for the opening of American Valhalla: The Art of Post Pop Depression. The exhibition features photography from...
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Tuesday Links: Fox News Not A Fan of Dread Scott’s Flag at Jack Shainman
Jack Shainman has hung Dread Scott’s “A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY” flag above the gallery, referencing the iconic Jim Crow era NAACP flag. Predictably, our colleagues over at Fox News find...
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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Painted Rooms, Painted Faces, Digital...
Well, we hope the art world had a good summer vacation because school is officially back in session. There are so many good shows opening on Thursday night in Chelsea we just couldn’t list them...
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From Botswana with Love*: The Gaze in Meleko Mokgosi’s Marxist Oil Paintings
“Comrades,” 2015 three panels: oil on canvas. All images by the author unless otherwise noted. Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition: Lerato Jack Shainman Gallery 513 W. 20th Street & Meleko...
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The Best of Everything, 2016
Deborah Kass’s OY/YO under the Brooklyn Bridge We were pretty sure 2016 was a stinker until we sat down to reflect on all that was good. Going through the images on our phones and our archives, we...
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