Rona Yefman
The flamboyant subject of Rona Yefman’s absorbing show “Marath a Bouke, Project #4” was Martha Bouke, the female persona of an unnamed, 80-year-old male Holocaust survivor living in Tel Aviv. Spanning...
View ArticleChelsea Galleries Hit Hard by Storm Sandy
Generators loudly buzzed and grim-faced crews were hard at work on Wednesday in Manhattan’s West Chelsea neighborhood, home to hundreds of art galleries, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. “The art was...
View ArticleThomas Barrow
Anyone looking for a counterpoint to the seamless photography currently dominating the digital field need look no further than the work of Thomas Barrow. Emphasizing the materiality of the photograph,...
View ArticleMichel Auder and Keith Mayerson Join Marlborough Chelsea
Keith Mayerson’s My Family, 2013. COURTESY THE WHITNEY Marlborough Chelsea now represents video artist Michel Auder and the painter Keith Mayerson, the gallery told ARTnews today. Both New York-based...
View ArticleDerek Eller Gallery Is Opening A Pop-Up Space in L.A.
New work by Despina Stokou and Peter Shire for their upcoming group show ‘Auto-Correct.’ COURTESY DEREK ELLER GALLERY The art world is going west—or at least, bicoastal. Mainstays of the New York art...
View ArticleHabitat: Jesse Greenberg
Jesse Greenberg photographed on October 6 in Brooklyn. KATHERINE MCMAHON Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces. This week’s studio: Jesse Greenberg, South Slope,...
View ArticleKarl Wirsum
The nine gridded faces in Karl Wirsum’s human-scale, black-and-red acrylic drawing Marcel Dude Champ (ca. 1979) bear a strong resemblance to one another, but close inspection reveals nine unique...
View ArticlePeter Linde Busk
Harold Rosenberg noted in 1964 that by appropriating past styles and tropes an artist “‘flattens out time’ by bringing its successive layers forward into a durationless present.” In the paintings,...
View ArticleMelissa Brown
Melissa Brown’s recent paintings at Derek Eller amounted to something like a storyboard for a twenty-first-century American epic. A short narrative written by Brown in which she recounts a recent road...
View ArticleAt NADA Miami, Sex Sells—and Ceramics, Too—to Droves of Collectors from Near...
Works by Joanne Greenbaum at Rachel Uffner’s booth. ANDREW RUSSETH/ARTNEWS Following yesterday’s Art Basel Miami Beach VIP opening, NADA Miami swung open its doors for invited guests this morning at...
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