Art
Sugar Coat: On Oscar Murillo and Kara Walker
In one of those useful coincidences of the New York art scene, two current exhibitions discuss global commerce and history, labor and money through one peculiar entry point: sugar.
David Zwirner
Art
How to Talk About Oscar Murillo
I know what you're thinking. There can't be a 'how to talk about Oscar Murillo' because we don't have a decade or so of commentary, he's too new to have talking points. He's 28 for God's sake, you protest.
Art
At the Armory Show, Dealer's Delight
On the penultimate day of the Armory Show, galleries were reporting sold out booths, sales pushed from in-house inventory, new connections and clients discovered, and not one bit of weariness.
News
Lines for Kusama's Infinity Room Devolve Into Mobs Outside David Zwirner
Chaos has broken out in front of David Zwirner gallery on West 19th Street, where people have been lining up to see Yayoi Kusama's “Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away,” part of her exhibition that closes tomorrow, since 7 o'clock this morning. A long line has turned i
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The Year of Rain and Cronuts
The New York art world was thrown a free joke when, over the summer, people waited in the rain to get into the Museum of Modern Art's Rain Room, a project by the studio Random International. The line was a capstone to a year of big projects with big draws, one more peak in a now-familiar rhythm: eve
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Domestic Video Screens at the Armory Show
Now that iPhones are ubiquitous and projectors on the rise as the home-theater tool of choice, we’re all getting a little more used to have different types of media screens in the home. We’re nowhere near the point occupied by the New York Times’s magic mirror, but our new acceptance of domestic scr
Art
Neither Here Nor There
Well known for working on very large sheets of wax-coated paper for the past twenty years, Toba Khedoori’s recent easel-sized oil painting will come as a surprise. In fact, the largest painting in her recent exhibition was around four-and-a-half feet by three feet, which is hardly monumental. To giv
Books
Three Different Styles of the Artist Monograph
Sometimes a gallery’s books are more interesting than the artwork they regularly exhibit, and you can peruse their best artists and exhibitions from the confines of a well-constructed catalogue.
Art
Weekly Art Rx
Time flies when you're looking at art. This week's prescription features a few shows that are closing (already!), including Jeff Wall and Maurizio Cattelan.
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Christie's Auction to Benefit Haiti: An Earnest Attempt or Not?
Ben Stiller, David Zwirner and Christie's are teaming up to raise money for Haitian humanitarian non-profits by selling some of today's most notable artists' works. The auction is offering all proceeds to charity, a tax write-off for buyers and a waiver for all fees usually taken by the high-end auc