Flipping Scripts: Art Notes for 2017
Last week I posted a lengthy, ambling, ultimately perhaps tiresomely discursive roundup of 2016 art highlights. As you’ll likely recall if you read the piece—or as you might observe if you read it...
View ArticleHistories, Trash, Erotica, Death: A (Fine) Fall Museum Preview
Prepare for the recently dormant yet typically quite lively art gallery circuits in our fine town to get jolted back into activity this week with hundreds of openings scattered around the boroughs....
View ArticleGallery Rounds: Up & Underway
The new exhibition season in NYC is not yet a week old, but it’s fair to say that it’s already, in a quantitative sense, well underway. That is, there were just enough gallery openings last week to...
View ArticleSpotlit: The TSA Network
“Night Flight” at TSA NY. Image courtesy TSA NY. Artist-run galleries can take many forms and be administered in many ways, especially when they’re partnered or collaborative affairs of some sort, or...
View ArticleGallery Rounds: Heavily BK
There was a point earlier this month when I realized I’d seen 82 new gallery shows in ten days. I know, what a slacker! Anyway, seeing all of those and a handful more since then has prompted me to do...
View ArticleBushwick Open Studios: Field Notes & Takeaways
It was a somewhat grey and rainy, at times even almost chilly weekend in the city, but none of that would’ve registered as drab or a drag at all if you were one of the thousands upon thousands of...
View ArticleSpotlit: The Chimney
It is a vessel of darkness and a conveyor of light. It glimmers and it dims. It hangs and sits. It hums and looms. It heaves, and it breathes. It seems to absorb, and it seems to sigh, and it seems,...
View ArticleAbout & Around: A Round About
Eight grey horizontal planes stretch from foreground to background like a wide set of stairs leading only to a wall, or like a set of bleachers pushed up against one, in the opening moments of Buster,...
View ArticlePhilogyny First: Female Artists Heat Up Winter
I probably don’t need to open this post with a lengthy, serpentinely worded commentary or critique on how the generally befuddling, definitively unseemly, ethically incongruous, historically anomalous...
View ArticleSalves & Salvos: 2016 Art Highlights
(All photos by Paul D’Agostino.) As many other recent year-end roundups of all sorts have similarly stated, the year 2016 will be recollected for quite some time for a great many reasons, and perhaps...
View ArticleFlipping Scripts: Art Notes for 2017
Last week I posted a lengthy, ambling, ultimately perhaps tiresomely discursive roundup of 2016 art highlights. As you’ll likely recall if you read the piece—or as you might observe if you read it...
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