Anyone and No One, Will Ryman at Play
Share Last winter, when Will Ryman’s giant pink and red Roses showed up in the snow banks of the Park Avenue mall between 57th and 67th Street, my first thought was “Roses and rose petals! Wow!” and then, “Hmm, some of these are 25 feet high and they’re supporting ladybugs, aphids, beetles, and bees!” And...
Bearden/I Know What That Looks Like
Share Romare Bearden was one of those people who seemed to have known everyone (Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Baziotes, Miro, Lorca, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Brancusi, Jacob Lawrence, Hannah Arendt, and Heinrich Blucher) and done everything (he played baseball in the Negro League, pitched against Satchel Paige, studied philosophy at the...
Damien Hirst, 522 West 21st Street, NYC
Share I agreed to review Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings at Gagosian on 21st Street, NYC. To my surprise, I liked it. This is the smallest of three New York installations—fourteen paintings arranged in the big, single-room loft space. The works range chronologically from 2001 (Urea—13C, which is the largest and, also, my favorite,...
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