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Dan Flavin: Installation Artist

I finally get it. It’s amazing when something becomes so clear after I had thought that I had it all figured out.  I have never been a fan of Dan Flavin’s work. Despise would have been an accurate description of my feeling towards the work.  At least until this show.  To me it was always [...]

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Art School Redux: Maya Lin at Pace Wildenstein

Monolithic. Topographic. Singular. The show is very impressive.
This is definitely a blue chip show, at a blue chip gallery, from a blue chip artist.
The reason that I bring this up is because, initially this show immediately overwhelms the senses, in its scale, and its poetry. It is representative of what Maya Lin is known for [...]

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Shadowplay by Hans Peter Feldmann

Wonderfully simple and elegant, the installation called “Shadowplay” by Hans Peter Feldmann was one of the highlights of the opening shows for the Fall 2009 season in New York City. This work was originally shown at the 2009 Venice Biennale, in ” Fare Mundi” curated by Daniel Birnbaum.
There are a number of aspects to this [...]

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Soho Versus Harlem: Art or Real Life?

Finally an interesting installation in New York City. Phew! I was thinking that sculpture was dead. Where are the Ann Hamilton’s and Robert Gober’s of this decade?  Black Acid Co-op at Deitch Projects in New York is one of the best shows that I’ve seen in New York in a while.
It is completely self [...]

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