Art
Dana Lok Beckons the Unknowable
Lok's paintings reveal seemingly straightforward objects and events to be strange, slippery, and utterly beguiling.
Miguel Abreu Gallery
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Opening Up the Thingness of Painting
Dana Lok explores a range of perceptual conundrums in an impressive debut exhibition.
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Jean-Luc Godard's Models for a Scuttled Exhibition Are Artworks in Their Own Right
An exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery gathers the intricate and rewarding models Godard created for a 2006 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that never came to pass.
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Seeing Signs of Brexit at Frieze London
Walking through the tents of Frieze Art Fair last weekend, visual evidence of Brexit’s impact was all around.
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Neo-Conceptual Process-Revival: Sam Lewitt's 'Casual Encounters'
Sam Lewitt is a young artist in a hurry. He was barely out of his twenties when he scored the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and right now he is filling both outlets of the Miguel Abreu Gallery — the modest space on Orchard Street and the immodest one on Eldridge.
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Conspicuously Absent: When Art Goes Undercover
Even in today’s anything-goes environment, it’s not all that common to encounter a work of art that hews so closely to the mundane that it risks not being recognized as art at all. Let alone two or three in a single show. But that’s the case with Conspicuous Unusable, a group exhibition at Miguel Ab