Romantic love for Lisa Yuskavage is something we can deride as unrealistic, yet its sweet, naïve simplicity reminds us of a youthful ideal.
David Zwirner
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Yale Photography MFAs Smash the Thin Border Between Fiction and Reality
While shows like this one make the Yale-to-Chelsea pipeline seem all the more real, these artists have some serious skills.
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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.
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12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
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Best of 2017: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
It was a powder keg of a year in visual art, with strong, politically inflected, deeply personal, and wildly inventive exhibitions that touched on the classics, courted controversy, and yielded new favorites.
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A Cardboard Box Alternative to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms
Artist Jon Burgerman is offering people queueing outside David Zwirner a more modest and less immersive experience: the “Infinity Box.”
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Falling in Love with a Felix Gonzalez-Torres Go-Go Dancer
During a recent visit to David Zwirner, I was transfixed by the dancer performing on a Gonzalez-Torres sculpture, so I decided to track him down.
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Hilton Als Curates Alice Neel’s Portraits of Life in Upper Manhattan
The exhibition at David Zwirner gallery features five decades’ worth of Neel’s paintings and drawings of people of color.
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The Loving, Self-Deprecating Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb
An exhibition at David Zwirner brings together the artist couple’s individual and collaborative autobiographic comics.
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Art Under the Influence of a Day Job
Now showing at David Zwirner, People Who Work Here is a celebration of the many artists who help run one of the world’s most powerful galleries.
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Exposing the Editor’s Hand in 20th-Century News Photos
Photography has never gazed so deeply into its own navel as with Thomas Ruff.
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Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon’s Weird Mind Meld
Gumby, surfers, penises, Batman and Robin, naked ladies with machine guns, Diamond Dogs-era David Bowie, bats and skulls, Charles Manson, dancers in polka dot dresses: These are a few of the motifs that crop up in Forgetting the Hand, a show of collaborative works by artists Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner Gallery.