Activists from as far away as Los Angeles and Vancouver came to Manhattan’s Chinatown to address the role of art galleries in gentrification.
James Cohan Gallery
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Artist Omer Fast Compares Protesters to Alt-Right, Chinatown Art Brigade Responds
The artist released a statement after Sunday’s protests, and the protesters have responded.
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Chinatown Art Brigade Protests Omer Fast’s “Racist” Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery
Dozens of people interrupted James Cohan Gallery’s Sunday hours to demand that the gallery and artist take down what the protesters see as “racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown.”
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Artist Omer Fast’s Take on Chinatown Angers Community Organizations
Fast’s seemingly derelict interpretation of Chinatown businesses has drawn ire from local groups.
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Art That’s Too Lovely to Make Its Politics Convincing
Elias Sime’s work at James Cohan gallery reclaims and transforms e-waste into art. While an act of conscience, I can’t help but think that the work is swamped by its own aesthetics.
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Yinka Shonibare MBE Navigates Prejudice and Dual Identity
Yinka Shonibare MBE has focused on two primary concerns throughout his career: his perspective on “otherness” and his awareness of the subtle intricacies of prejudice.
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Painting the Violent Life Cycles of Bruises
In his new series at James Cohan Gallery, Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, Byron Kim paints bruises that radiate tenderness and hurt.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Packed, Percussive Paintings
The artist’s solo show at James Cohan is a raucous, slightly creepy, rebellious screed.
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Uncanny Films About the Traumas of War
Omer Fast’s unsettling videos about the trauma of combat linger in one’s mind.
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The Dynamic Distortions of a Formal Painter
Mernet Larsen claims an unlikely pair of influences: 15th-century Italian painting and the austere abstractions of the Russian modernist El Lissitzky (1890–1941).
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Robert Smithson’s Sacred and Profane Pop
Pop, an exhibition currently on view at James Cohan’s new Grand Street location, explores a more obscure phase of Robert Smithson’s tragically brief career: his figurative engagement with popular culture.
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The Uses of Pleasure: Michelle Grabner at James Cohan
What most struck me about the now notorious Michelle Grabner review in the October 24th edition of The New York Times was that it was, unusually, surrounded by reviews of other painters.