Much of the artworks for sale emanated a darkly satirical message this past weekend.
Raymond Pettibon
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Artist Interviews and the Literature of Self-Endorsement
In three recent volumes, artists express nostalgia for the smaller, scrappier New York art world.
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Rediscover Desolation Center, a Series of ’80s Punk Happenings in the Mojave Desert
From the Desert to the Sea, opening on June 17 at Cornelius Projects, illuminates this overlooked but fertile period in LA’s musical and artistic history.
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Living in Raymond Pettibon’s America
We seem to finally be catching up to what the artist has been saying through his work all along — that things are bad, and they always have been.
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Death Wish: Raymond Pettibon at the New Museum
Pettibon’s real subject is not the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, but the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.
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A Museum Show Makes the Case for Art Institutions as Graveyards
MEXICO CITY – Drawing from its massive contemporary art collection, the Museo Jumex has turned introspective for The Natural Order of Things, a flawed and biased critique of the function of art museums.
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Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon’s Weird Mind Meld
Gumby, surfers, penises, Batman and Robin, naked ladies with machine guns, Diamond Dogs-era David Bowie, bats and skulls, Charles Manson, dancers in polka dot dresses: These are a few of the motifs that crop up in Forgetting the Hand, a show of collaborative works by artists Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner Gallery.
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In New York City, Punk Is in the Air
There was a week in high school when my mom begrudgingly let me stay out in New York City for almost three nights in a row.
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Two Chelsea Galleries Go Wall Out for Summer
‘Tis the season of reduced hours and low-stakes group shows at most Manhattan galleries, but two spaces in Chelsea are bucking the trend with summer exhibitions of large-scale murals.
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Did a Few Tweets Force Frieze to Unionize?
On April 9, Frieze New York and city labor unions announced that they had reached a settlement regarding using unionized workers for their fair in May.
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One Gallery, Two Very Different Artists
David Zwirner is currently showing solo exhibitions of Raymond Pettibon and Philip-Lorca diCorcia in his West 19th Street galleries. On the surface, Pettibon and diCorcia do not have much in common: the former creates punk noir drawings; the latter makes engaging photographs that dance between fact and fiction. They’re the Felix and Oscar of the art world. Here, Pettibon swings and misses; DiCorcia, by contrast, hits a home run.