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Painting Between the Machine and the Hand
For more than three decades, Lydia Dona has generated enigmatic abstractions that join together legible and indecipherable parts.
Marlborough Gallery
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Maggi Hambling's Visceral Abstractions Reflect Environmental Destruction
Hambling’s paintings nudge viewers to consider what we will be losing if humankind continues on its current path, and how much we’ve already lost.
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Scouting Out the Armory Show, a Theme Park for the Wealthy
Amid the big, blue chip baubles, there are flickers of truly powerful and personal work at the latest edition of the vast Armory Show art fair.
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Stilling the Wind and Rain as Suspended Metal
Paula Crown interprets the memory of rainfall in a cascade of suspended metal at Marlborough Gallery.
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Why Are Art Openings on Thursday in NY and Saturday in LA?
LOS ANGELES — The rivalry between New York and Los Angeles runs deep: seasons vs. sunshine, pizza vs. tacos, Biggie vs. Tupac. For the art world, add to that list opening nights.
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My Year in Art: A Top 6
I'd like to start with a disclaimer: Top 5, 10, whatever lists make me nervous. They feel so definitive, so set in stone, and that makes me uncomfortable. What happens when my opinions evolve (as they inevitably will), or when I change my mind tomorrow, or if I accidentally forget something?
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Dirty Art
Dirt is getting its moment in the sun. A cluster of recent shows in Chelsea and downtown make the most of soil, making it a good time to think about earth art again.
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POWHIDA Is a VIP Douchebag
The point of last night's Marlborough Gallery show, POWHIDA, is probably that there are too many douchebags in the world, especially the art world. The character named Powhida, entered a Chelsea street-level Chelsea gallery and acted the part of a blue-chip contemporary artist.
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WTF is... the Secondary Market?
Throughout the course of NYC's art fair week, I overheard questions over what art work was being sold, and who it was being sold to. Of course, art fairs exist to sell work, and the work on display is there to be sold. But where do these works come from? This is where the secondary market comes in.