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Three Tribeca Gallery Newcomers on What Drew Them to the Neighborhood
James Fuentes, Asya Geisberg, and Gabrielle Giattino of Bureau have all decamped from their original spaces this month.
James Fuentes
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Juanita McNeely's Paintings Bare Pain and Resilience In Equal Measure
Looking at McNeely’s work through the lens of pain is almost inevitable, but it was a feat of strength for McNeely to paint some of these canvases at all, as doctors insisted she would never work at such a scale again.
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Two Artists Strutting as Victorian-Era Dandies Imagine Alternate Queer Histories
Artist duo McDermott & McGough's show is filled with campy critiques of homosexual oppression through the ages.
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Highlighting the Invisible Labor of Art Objects
The tension between design and art derives from the utility ascribed to the former vying with the elusiveness that characterizes the latter.
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The 2015 Armory Show in 23 Superlatives
The 2015 Armory Show delivers pretty much what you'd expect of the 2015 Armory Show: some quite good art, some pretty bad art, and a lot of completely harmless stuff in between.
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Putting the 'No' in 'Nostalgia'
This show at James Fuentes, instigated by various artists associated with an exhibition in 1980 called The Real Estate Show, is a reconstruction of a spontaneous action that began in late 1979.
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Mr. Internet Paints a Picture
It is probably appropriate that the first time I heard of Josh Abelow was through his website, Artblog Artblog. It is more of a stream of consciousness image and info dump than a proper “blog” — there isn’t much writing to speak of.