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At a preview of the New Museum's George Condo retrospective, I was struck by the painter's relentless engagement with all sorts of art historical genres, from Baroque portraiture to abstract expressionism and back again. Here's a photo essay covering the entire Condo exhibition, from the salon style
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Joe Zucker’s solo exhibition A Unified Theory at not one, but two Mary Boone gallery outposts is an affair that stretches from day-glo exuberance to quiet, eloquent historicism. In the gallery’s 24th street space, an exhibition of mosaic works on gypsum sees Zucker breaking down the representational
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Liveblogging performance art is a little like tweeting a dentist appointment. You go in with some anxiety about the experience, and in the case of the former, you wonder how you will be able to capture all of what you are experiencing but also remain in the moment and engaged even though your mind c
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Last Wednesday the Lesley Heller Workspace in the Lower East Side, opened The Bushwick Paintings, a new group of work by Deborah Brown. The gallery was packed, teeming with people and vibrant paintings. Brown has been painting urbanscapes for quite some time. Fascinated by the world in which we live
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When the VIP (Viewing in Private) Art Fair kicks off this Saturday January 22, there won’t be mad dash of collectors behind the gates, ready to snap up any work on view. The only crush might be an overloaded server or a long login time as patrons struggle to sign in. VIP marks the first digital-only
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Jennifer Bartlett’s latest exhibition Recitative at Pace Gallery shows the artist continually breaking down and rebuilding the base particles of art. In the enormous, open gallery installation, enamel-coated steel tiles spaced in rising and falling grids line the exterior walls. Each square holds it
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Maximum Perception was one thing first and foremost: a lot of fun. As a coming together of performance artists, the crowd at the English Kills event packed the gallery on both evenings, with a noticeable overlap between nights, as well as between performers and spectators. Artists helped fellow part
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On Monday, January 24, starting at 7pm, Austin Thomas will be hosting an informal "Hippie Potluck" at Hyperallergic HQ and we’re calling it "Covered Dishes & Current Affairs." Attendees are invited to bring a covered dish for the potluck and join in the roundtable discussion about issues of importan
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We've all wished we could break into an art collector's house at times, just to take a look at the wealth of objects out of the public eye. Aside from being awesome aggregations of unique things, collections also communicate something about a person, their aesthetic tastes and their own preferences.
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From the frothing press release for Haymaker, expectations may be running a little high for these five young artists to mount a full scale assault on the Chelsea firmament. Set up as a reaction to the Pop-driven, ever-quickening pace of the art market and the commodifying of art and the artist, Haym
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Could it be that the slick surfaces and lustrous finish fetish of high minimalism isn't exactly suitable for the current atmosphere of economic austerity measures? Along with the painful recession consequences of mass job loss, gallery closings and the bloody fight over British arts funding cuts has
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Tonight, Daniel Larkin and I will be liveblogging night two of the Maximum Perception Performance Festival at the English Kills Art Gallery in Brooklyn. Last night's liveblog can be found here [http://hyperallergic.com/16679/liveblogging-maximum-perception-fri-night/] and tonight we're going to be t