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Post-black #2: Kerry James Marshall and William Pope.L
The top three photos are from Kerry James Marshall’s show Dollar for Dollar at Jack Shainman this past fall, and the bottom photos from William Pope.L’s show that was up around this same time at...
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A Redifined Existence at J. Cacciola Gallery
The post about this show, which closed July 26, has been sitting in my drafts folder, but for lack of time rather than lack of things to say. The works of China Marks, Rick Newton, and Sally Curcio,...
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Amerikka: Cildo Meireles at Galerie Lelong
Amerikkka, 1991/2013 Next week is your last chance to Cildo Meireles’s exhibition at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea. In it, the Brazilian artist’s show-stopping installation Amerikkka draws you into the...
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Strong misreadings: Tom Phillips at Flowers Gallery
Installation view of “Pages from a Humument” at Flowers Gallery A row of one hundred unadorned pages from an old book entitled “A Human Document.” Below, a row of pages similarly numbered but with...
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Poetics of Space: Sarah Sze at Tanya Bonakdar
Installation View, Sarah Sze at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Sometimes I can be a little slow on the uptake–one example of that might be when I saw Sarah Sze’s Triple Point at the 2013 Venice Biennale and...
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Chungk, Beep, Crack!:Christian Marclay at Paula Cooper
Imagine that you are in a room so dark you can’t see your own feet, much less the other bodies around you. The word “POW” bursts on the wall and repeats across the wall surface, continuing around the...
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Bill Viola: Inverted Birth at James Cohan
Installation view, Inverted Birth, 2014 Inverted Birth, the titular work of Bill Viola’s latest exhibition at James Cohan gallery, features a lone protagonist bathed in a torrent of dark fluid that...
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Colorful Crosswords: Stephen Dean at Ameringer McEnery Yohe
Crossword, 2015, Watercolor on paper mounted on archival Tycore, 75 1/2 x 76 1/4 inches Looking at this image online, as when viewing it from a distance in person, it is difficult to tell exactly what...
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A Body Without Organs: Javier Téllez at Koenig & Clinton
Installation view of Javier Téllez: To Have Done with the Judgment of God, 2016 God and organs, screams and silent landscape, ritual and the medical gaze fill the current exhibition “To Have Done with...
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Charred Order: Leonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins
Number 185, 2016, Wood, paint, pastel, screws, 121 x 134 x 30 ins Gorgeous surfaces of charred wood draw you into Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in Chelsea, where Brooklyn-based artist Leonardo Drew has an...
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Constriction and Anxiety: Rashid Johnson at Hauser & Wirth
Rashid Johnson’s large exhibition “Fly Away” takes advantage of monumental spaces of Hauser & Wirth’s gallery on 19th Street where the artist tries to confine broad, unsettled themes of race and...
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Live Culture: Slavs and Tatars at Tanya Bonakdar
Reader, I drank it. A gallery employee filed a copper tumbler with a ladle of thin white liquid topped with an airy foam he especially fished out for me from the metal cart pictured above. This is the...
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A Humble Humor: Maria Nepomuceno and Lucas Blalock at Sikkema Jenkins
Installation view, More Simply Put, Sikkema Jenkins & Co Gallery More Simply Put, a group exhibition up at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in Chelsea through June 30, brings together the work of artists...
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