Art
What Is Brooklyn?
Makes Brooklyn art Brooklyn. I’ve been thinking about this for the last week, and I have to admit that I’m stumped.
Howard Hurst
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Coming to Grips With Matthew Barney at Gladstone Gallery
Matthew Barney’s most recent exhibition Djed opened at Gladstone Gallery on September 17. Like everything the artist tends to do, the sculptures on view are of epic proportion. The objects themselves are extremely minimal steel and graphite molded constructions that are half early Richard Serra and half alien crash
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A Morbid, Unsettling But Guilty Art Pleasure
Robert Melee is known for his sculpture and multimedia installations that, with heavy doses of nostalgia and grit, poke and prod our human experiences. His latest show, Triscuit Obfuscation, is currently on view at Andrew Krepps Gallery in Chelsea. His sculptures are kind of ramshackle and oozy in a
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Connecting the Dotts at Winkleman Gallery
Winkleman gallery’s newest exhibition Cool Guys Like You by Jennifer Dalton is a must see. You should go and get a 25 cent temporary tattoo, and check out her disarming info graphics about media talk show media coverage.What really excited me though wasn’t the headliner, but the playful, color blast
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Telling the Story of an Art Loft Building
1107 Manhattan Avenue is the current exhibition at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery. The show, which opened last Friday, is a geographical/historical survey of work produced in an artistically rich studio building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn from which the show takes its name.
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Sculptural Wizardry and Other Playful Exuberance
I’ve been a pretty huge fan of sculptor Michelle Lopez ever since her first show at the Simon Preston gallery on the Lower east side. When I found out a couple weeks ago about her impending second solo show at the gallery, I was pretty nervous. Granted, I shouldn’t have been, but let neurotic bygone
Opinion
Street Art as Public Memorial
What role can/ should street art play in a broader program of national memorials and monuments. Can we as a public take these kinds of installations seriously, or will the intent of the artist always be suspect?
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Say Goodbye to Monster Island
Here at Hyperallergic we are pretty fond of Williamsburg. It’s the home of our shmancy offices, Journal Gallery and some other pretty great arts institutions and galleries. There is no denying that its changed quite significantly in the last few years. Unfortunately, my favorite neighborhood arts bu
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A Photo Show Begs the Question, Groupie or Guru?
I have to admit it, summer is almost over, and I’m kind of disappointed. This season is arguably the best time to see live music, and initiatives like Celebrate Brooklyn make it easy and (sometimes) free, something I unfortunately missed out on this year. For those like me who have neglected their m
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Reflecting on Nurture Art's "We Are" Summer Experiment
We Are is Nurture Art’s summer innitative. All summer the nonprofit has lent its gallery space out to a number of Brooklyn-based artists, curators and galleries. According to the organization’s website: "This hybrid between art festival, short-term residency program and neighborhood jamboree is a ho
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Why So Serious? A Marriage of Theory and Commerce
So, I have to be honest, I don’t know if I am totally sold on the whole group show thing. It makes sense within the scope of the art center, alternative space or museum, but I sometimes question its benefits in the commercial art world. I think the point of the theoretical, thematic or art historica
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The Plastic Bag as Artistic Muse
In Patrick Griffin's recent exhibition at The Journal Gallery in Williamsburg, Common Courtesy, he focused on an unusual subject matter: the plastic bag. If you live in a major city then you are more than familiar with these little guys; they accumulate under your sink, get stuck in that storm drain