Though at times seeming incomplete, Judith Barry’s exhibition lends space to the otherwise untold stories of women in Cairo.
Mary Boone gallery
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Carrie Moyer Reaches for the Stars
Moyer’s new paintings revel in color and visual pleasure, scrambling distinctions between abstraction and representation.
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Nina Chanel Abney Paints on the Edge of Violence
Abney locates much of her work on the recognition that abuse and violence are an integral part of the everyday consciousness of people of color.
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Peter Saul Knows What to Do with the President and a Hamburger
Some artists get the honor of having their work displayed in the White House, but chances are Saul will never be one of them.
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Ai Weiwei Explores the Scale of Crisis in Four Large Installations
Four Ai Weiwei shows across Manhattan explore the aesthetics of crisis and the deluge that might consume us.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: two men tried to steal a copy of a Banksy, a sculptural tribute to Trump was set on fire, and Alec Baldwin accused Mary Boone of selling him the wrong Ross Bleckner painting.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Norwegian youths destroyed a stone-age engraving of a skier, Mary Boone sued an art adviser over allegedly ill-gotten KAWS works, and a Salvador Dalí sculpture was vandalized in Quebec City.
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An Artist Colors Over Our September 11 Wounds
The Life of Forms exhibition, now on view at Mary Boone gallery is a relatively standard summer show smorgasbord, but one artist who stands out to me is Doug Ashford.
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History Repeating Itself: Tragedy, Farce, and Judith Bernstein
With her remarkable new exhibition at Mary Boone — her second at the gallery in eight months — Judith Bernstein resurrects the imagery of her Vietnam-era works in a savage takedown of contemporary American politics and its testosterone-fueled will to power.
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The Necessary Insolence of Peter Saul
Peter Saul has an uncanny ability to seamlessly combine the hilarious and the hideous to great effect. In the middle of chortling at one of his wacky, indecorous paintings, you are apt to suddenly notice an odd and even disturbing detail.
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Into the Abyss: Judith Bernstein’s Dissection of Desire
Sometimes you think you have a handle on an artist’s work, and then a new piece of information comes along that casts it in an entirely different light.
