Mar 12, 2019
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes (New Edition)
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In 2015, Damiani published a book of seascape photography the prolific Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto....
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Feb 21, 2019
Lucio Fontana at the Met Breuer
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The art world has its own trends and fashions that come and go. Artists and art movements get discovered and rediscovered, sometimes with a nudge from powerful art collectors who first stock up on the art and then make bank once they help popularize it....
Feb 20, 2019
Paolo Roversi at the Pace/MacGill Gallery
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Paolo Roversi is one of those photographers that tends to frustrate you not because he is bad, but because he is do damn good. Roversi has been responsible for some of the most iconic imagery from Comme des Garcons and Yohji Yamamoto, and more than...
Feb 15, 2019
Robert Mapplethorpe at the Guggenheim
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The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is inextricably woven into the fabric of the New-York-Before-It-Sucked (that is the ‘70s and the ‘80s) cultural mythology. He’s always been that for the art circle, and he’s become that for a wider circle after Just Kids, a Patti Smith’s memoir...
Nov 27, 2018
Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum
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My relationship to Warhol’s art has been full of tension. I used to hate it - the obviousness of it, the surface, the refusal to say something serious....
Oct 24, 2018
Egon Schiele and Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Foundation Louis Vuitton
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When Foundation Louis Vuitton opened several years ago in Paris, it joined a slew of those manufactured by the newly minted patrons of the arts who have made such incredible amounts of money that they could build not private collections but entire museums; people like...
Oct 22, 2018
Caravaggio at Musée Jacquemart-André
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It’s one of those things you find out about and your jaw drops to the floor....
Sep 13, 2018
Bacon / Giacometti
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This has been another marquee year for the European titans of mid-century art....
Sep 12, 2018
Chaim Soutine: Flesh
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I generally try to see every exhibition of Chaim Soutine’s paintings that can I manage to get to and of those that I can’t I try to track down the catalogue....
Sep 11, 2018
Chiharu Shiota: Under the Skin
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I don’t remember the first time I encountered the work of Chiharu Shiota, but I remember being immediately drawn to it....