Berg’s work is fast, active, and smooth. She has described her work as being about an “indulgent painterly lust.” For Berg, the space of the surface of a painting is “performative” and her process an energetic jumping back and forth from canvas to canvas. On the other hand, Nesbit’s process appears slower, with a strong […]

Sandy’s impact on us has been inconsequential relative to the devastation that Chelsea has suffered. Patton and I were there yesterday walking from gallery to gallery offering our services, and finally ending up at Printed Matter. Witnessing the damage was sickening and surreal, but seeing the steady efforts to salvage and restore business were encouraging, […]

This might seem like a relatively basic question but if I were to say that the experience of looking at Richard Prince’s rephotographed Marlboro ads made me weep, then what would be the difference when encountering the original as a magazine spread — would there be some kind of meaning inherent in that experience if […]

  “The exhibition will be comprised of two bodies of work: Several work on paper using graphite, oil stick and correction fluid to document Life Forms, locations, equipment and events; and a single large-scale sculpture, DEFEND_Station, that will be comprised of numerous elements from the studio, such as Floating Heads, time-collectors, blockers and shivs. The […]

FOCUS ASIA was curated by managing editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Zheng Shengtian and independent curator, Katherine Don. The two selected 14 galleries to participate culling from India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and more. Greeting visitors at the foot of the stairs was Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Untitled 2008-2011 (the map of the land of […]

Confused as to what our next step should be after grad school, we spent a lot of time trading fears and frustrations. Feeling a complete disconnect from the art culture that characterized much of Manhattan, the two of us began to talk about putting our own events together. It just so happened that the basement […]

Barney Kulok was granted access to observe and photograph the construction of the highly anticipated Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park last Fall. The memorial park, designed in 1973 by Louis I. Kahn and situated on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, was the last design the great modernist architect completed before his death in […]

On a blistering 100-degree afternoon in August, the artist Hugo McCloud and I moved through his Brooklyn studio discussing his recent exhibitions and series of works in progress. Hugo McCloud is a young artist whose approach is simultaneously minimal and conceptual, highly suggestive of an interesting emerging talent. Hugo McCloud, Shacks R Us 2012, Patina […]

The Lehman College Art Gallery has been taken over by the artworks of eighteen featured artists in its exhibition Space Invaders. Through structures of the building, both inside and out, works are peering, creeping, growing, and hanging through the floor, ceiling, walls, and even the balcony. Working with a specific location in mind, the unique […]

Crowded. This is maybe the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of an art fair. For sure, that “crowded” became a more real, tangible sensation during Frieze London 2012, whose historical tent in Reagent’s Park, London, became one of many to visit this year. For the first time, the attendees had to […]