By Brian Boucher Published March 6th 2020, updated March 10th 2020 How far will art fairs go to make themselves educational affairs on par with museum exhibitions? What can these events, where dealers convene to sell their wares to well-heeled collectors, do to set themselves apart from their competitors? As fairs proliferate, to about 300 worldwide, their organizers introduce new features, like panel discussions and concerts, meant to add intellectual heft and to cultivate and entertain broader audiences. (Confession: I myself…Read More
The Armory Show: Playing It Safe During an Unsettled Time Another year, another crisis: The Armory Show proves resilient again as it opens amid the coronavirus outbreak. Our critic surveys the fair’s many welcoming entry points. By Martha Schwendener March 5, 2020 Last year the Armory Show weathered a crisis when Pier 92 over the Hudson River was condemned shortly before the art fair opened, precipitating a last-minute reshuffling of booths and the shutting down of a satellite display. This year, the fair has…Read More
Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From the Armory Party at MoMA to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, there’s something for everyone this week. Sarah Cascone, March 2, 2020 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below. . . . A participant at the Wikipedia Asian Month: Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories, A Space, AAA, November 2019. Photo by Winnie…Read More
Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From the Armory Party at MoMA to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, there’s something for everyone this week. Sarah Cascone, March 2, 2020 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below. … 17. “JEF by Jeremy Couillard Presented by TSS x Daata” at Times Square Space Collector Tiffany Zabludowicz is back with…Read More
See Highlights from the 2020 Armory Show The 2020 edition of the Armory Show opens to the public later this week, running from March 5 to March 8, with a preview day on March 4. This year, more than 180 local, national, and global exhibitors will gather at New York’s Piers 90 and 94. Mega-enterprise Gagosian will be joined by returning galleries such as 303 Gallery (New York), Victoria Miro (London and Venice), Jeffrey Deitch (Los Angeles and New York),…Read More
NADA Gallery Member Robert Dimin leads a guided gallery tour with stops at Denny Dimin Gallery, Canada, GOLESTANI, Baxter St. at CCNY, Martos Gallery, and Helena Anrather. The Tour will start on Friday, March 6, 3PM at Denny Dimin Gallery. Space is limited, please RSVP to [email protected].
Armory Week 2020: Here’s Your Cheat Sheet to the Fairs BY CLAIRE SELVIN February 27, 2020 4:46pm A work by Pascale Marthine Tayou at the 2019 Armory Show. TEDDY WOLFF With the ADAA Art Show having already opened and many more fairs to follow, it’s time once again for Armory Week in New York. Below is a guide to nine art fairs to take in over the days to come, at scales both big and small. Note that the listings focus on public…Read More
February 27, 2020 White, Woll, and the artist’s sense of control Taylor Anton White, Above The Fruited Plainnnz!, 2020, acrylic, airbrush, wax crayon, pencil, paper, rubber coated wire, cardboard, screws, and plywood, 36 x 36 x 2 inches. Contributed by Riad Miah Taylor Anton White and Andy Woll’s solo exhibitions opened at two galleries next door to each other in Tribeca, White’s at Monica King Contemporary and Woll’s at Denny Dimin Gallery. Their bodies of work are outwardly different, but…Read More
The Armory Show and beyond – around the galleries in New York Samuel Reilly The Tourist (detail; 2019), Amir H. Fallah. Denny Dimin Gallery at the Armory Show The Armory Show (5–8 March) returns to Manhattan this year with an enhanced curatorial presence, continuing the innovations that director Nicole Berry began to introduce on taking over at the fair in 2017. The fair’s main section at Pier 94 sees the usual jostling of blue-chips with lesser-known galleries – but for the…Read More
Mapping Wikipedia An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why. MICHAEL MANDIBERG. FEBRUARY 23,2020 A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing Wikipedia by county. (ANALYSIS OF WIKIPEDIA IP EDITOR ACTIVITY) Wikipedia matters. In a time of extreme political polarization, algorithmically enforced filter bubbles, and fact patterns dismissed as fake news, Wikipedia has become one of the few places where we can meet to write a shared reality….Read More
Five Questions for Artist Justine Hill Other People’s Words: “Hill exhibits an easy-seeming confidence, both in her exuberant facture and in her engagement with art history. Her work evokes that of Pierre Bonnard, Elizabeth Murray, Frank Stella, Pablo Picasso, Brice Marden, and various other predecessors, but manages to be wholly its own thing.”— Elizabeth Buhe, Art in America Five Questions: Interviews in Excellence with Artist Justine Hill 1. How do you get in the right mindset to make your work?…Read More
Your Concise Southwest US Art Guide for Spring 2020 Your list of must-see, fun, insightful art events this season in the Southwest United States. Spring has sprung (or has started to) in northern New Mexico (where our Southwest US editor Ellie Duke lives), and that means it’s time to come out of hibernation to explore the artistic offerings of the season. As always, there are many wonderful exhibitions, festivals, and art events taking place during the coming months throughout the southwestern US. We’ve put…Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2020 Amanda Valdez: Piecework Exhibition Introduces Artist Amanda Valdez in First Long Island Show On view March 21 to May 3, 2020 Contemporary artist Amanda Valdez creates brilliantly colored, patterned, and textured abstract paintings by cutting, sewing, dying, painting, and embroidering canvas and other cloth. Featuring more than 20 works, including several that are among the artist’s largest and most recent, Amanda Valdez: Piecework explores artist’s engagement with abstraction and “women’s work” with fiber. She conjures…Read More
Presented by Daata & TSS February 29 – March 15, 2020 Opening reception: March 2nd, 6-9pm, RSVP: [email protected] Times Square Space, 1500 Broadway, NY 10036 Ground Floor Entrance on 43rd St, next door to the Brooklyn Diner, 155 West 43rd St. JEF – An expansive video project by Jeremy Couillard. Presented by Daata & TSS from Daata Editions on Vimeo. JEF is a cosmology, inspired by world building techniques in sci-fi literature, fully automated luxury space communism fantasies and human/computer…Read More
Image Above: Installation view of Michael Mandiberg, Quantified Self Portrait (One Year Performance) at LACMA’s Ray’s & Stark Bar. Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s recent acquisition of two works by Michael Mandiberg. LACMA acquired both works following the artist’s exhibition, Workflow, at the museum. For Workflow, Mandiberg used self-tracking technology to understand the changing definition of labor in the digital age. The endeavor had multiple components, including a one-year sonic installation,…Read More
State of the Art With a wave of high-profile art galleries relocating to its chic and spacious lofts, Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood is quickly regaining its status as New York City’s art gallery hub. Hand in hand with this urban renewal are female dealers representing a slew of women artists and artists of color By Jasmine P Ting Photography Katelyn Perry THE OPENING NIGHT OF AN ART EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD. . . . ANOTHER GALLERIST…Read More
Permanent Spectacle, 2017. Hand-cut paper, Plexiglas, porcelain, terra cotta, weaving, wood, and marble, 14 x 16 x 8 ft. Photo: Future Retrieval February 6, 2020 by Amanda Dalla Villa Adams Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker have collaborated as Future Retrieval since 2008. In 1999, after meeting as undergrads in ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute, the pair earned graduate degrees from Ohio State University; they now lead the ceramics department at the University of Cincinnati’s…Read More
Patterns Converge at Butler Gallery’s ‘Fanfare’ By Polina Uzornikova, Staff Writer February 5, 2020 ANDREW DRESSNER/THE OBSERVER Eight different artists’ styles come together in a new exhibit which explores patterns’ ability to make both a social and aesthetic statement. On Jan. 23, the daily Fordham landscape went through a rather eye-catching and colorful change. Positioned across from the escalators that lead to the indoor plaza, Ildiko Butler Gallery now proudly hosts “Fanfare,” a group exhibition curated by Amie Cunat, which…Read More
The Collector by Enid Tsui Are intense emotions fueling a great period of art-making in Hong Kong? Long dismissed as a place where art is sold and not made, a recent exhibition reflected a new energy in the city’s art scene. Organised by the artists themselves, ‘What’s On Paper’ exhibited works linked by community not theme. To much of the international art world, Hong Kong is not where art is made but where it is traded. We can shout all we…Read More
7 Art Dealers Reveal How Gallery Waiting Lists Really Work Alina Cohen Sold-out gallery exhibitions make news, which can lead art collectors and enthusiasts to believe the phenomenon is a frequent occurrence. We hear about Loie Hollowell selling out at Pace, Carol Bove at David Zwirner, Brice Marden at Gagosian, Ebecho Muslimova at Magenta Plains, and Avery Singer at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. What happens, in such circumstances, when more collectors want the work? What if demand for an artist’s work exceeds supply? Often, rumors circulate about massive waiting lists drawn up by galleries, organized…Read More
Clarity Haynes The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but torsos are even more telling in this mid-career New York artist’s new group of intimate, numinous paintings. In this show, titled “Altar-ed Bodies,” Haynes explores the possibilities of feminist figuration in cropped compositions whose subjects are frankly depicted, in frontal poses, with their scars, stretch marks, and sagging flesh. Their tattoos and jewelry assume a talismanic significance, which continues in a companion series—its genre might be called “queer…Read More
An Artist’s Altars to Unsung Women Rendered in a rainbow of vibrant colors, Clarity Haynes’s portrayals of queer, heavy, and disabled bodies reimagines the white box as a communal space that allows for the possibility of healing. – Christen Clifford Installation view, Clarity Haynes: Altar-ed Bodies at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. Foreground: Clarity Haynes, “Genesis” (2019), oil on linen, 58 x 52 in. Background: Clarity Haynes, “Grace” (2019), oil on linen, 62 x 62 inches (all images courtesy of Denny…Read More
What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries Nicky Nodjoumi’s dreamy serial paintings; Albert Oehlen’s “mirror paintings”; Clarity Haynes portraits of breasts; Kim Tschang-Yeul’s abstract brand of Pop Art … Clarity Haynes Through Jan. 25. Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan; 212-226-6537, dennygallery.com. Clarity Haynes’s “Genesis” (2019) in the show “Altar-ed Bodies.”Credit…Clarity Haynes, New Discretions and Denny Dimin Gallery Since the late 1990s, Clarity Haynes has been painting portraits of people’s breasts. They aren’t descended from the sexy and sexist classical…Read More
CLARITY HAYNES ART AS A HEALER As a lesbian woman, artist Clarity Haynes is aware that her “contributions to culture are likely to be erased as I am doubly marginalized”. However, her paintings of torsos and altars, which play a cathartic role both on her, the people who model for her, and the audience, will go down in history. With the aim to promote peace, empower the marginalized and fight the patriarchy, her beautifully honest, raw and truthful artworks serve…Read More
