Vanguard public art organization Creative Time held its annual benefit Wednesday night at Jing Fong in Chinatown. The cavernous dim sum restaurant was transformed into a flamboyant, neon-tinged party space befitting the event’s “Going Global” theme.
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Raven Row’s exhibition, “Unto This Last,” opens tomorrow in London. With works by Thomas Bayrle, Sarah Browne, Andrea Büttner, Alice Channer, Isabelle Cornaro, Dewar & Gicquel, Pernille Kapper Williams, and Běla Kolářova, the show looks at craft’s place in contemporary art. The title is taken from John Ruskin’s book of the same name t...
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Over the weekend Gavin Brown’s enterprise inaugurated its brand-new, expanded space with two shows by Martin Creed and Jonathan Horowitz. The exhibition space now occupies an adjacent, former meatpacking facility, Pat LaFrieda Meats.
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Today the Centre Pompidou-Metz opened with “Masterpieces?”. The inaugural show pulls from the Musee National d’art Moderne collection (with 65,000 works, making it Europe’s largest collection of contemporary and modern art). The exhibition relooks at the notion of “masterpiece” in four stages: Masterpieces throughout History, Stories be...
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Today is the start of New York Gallery Week, a series of openings, artist talks, tours, and panel discussions at galleries in New York taking place from now through Monday. Organizers of NYGW, including gallerist Casey Kaplan, hope to refocus attention on the artists and the galleries that represent them, putting some excitement into the New York a...
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Mark Ryden’s The Gay 90’s: Old Thyme Art Show opens tonight at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. Before the show opened, the artist took a few questions from Whitewall.
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