Before the Whitney hauled off to their new location High Line (which opens in the spring!) from their Marcel Breuer-designed building in the Upper East Side, we got to see the Jeff Koons retrospective and some of the pieces in their beautiful permanent collection. But, first! Jeff Koons From Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of […]
(Not really.) The visit to the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art) was, predictably, pretty frustrating. It’s the one museum staple (ha!) that always leaves me a little underwhelmed. I think it’s an effect of me being bogged down by the volume of their collection that has everything—from Native American to African to Egyptian to Greek, etc. […]
Here’s part 2 of Chelsea! Part 1 can be found here. Ahem. So, the day after, we went back to Chelsea to see some galleries we missed the first time around. We went to some other places before that, though. The last time we were in New York, this monument didn’t exist yet, so what […]
On display at Art Informal until September 22 is Nilo Ilarde’s Faulty Landscape. Although they usually have simultaneous exhibits at AI, Ilarde’s brain space has occupied the three rooms and it is beautiful. This isn’t the first time he’s worked with artists’ cast-offs, a mix of debris that permeate a painter’s home or studio. With […]
20 Square at Silverlens Gallery: Ryan Villamael’s Isles So, this is a pretty overdue post, but as it happens, I have a hot/cold relationship with my blog and the subsequent oversharing on the Internet that it entails. A few weeks ago, my sister and I dropped by Ryan Villamael’s solo show, “Isles,” at Silverlens’ 20 […]
