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January 2021

"The Best Art In The World"

January 2021 - "The Best Art In The World"

Stefan Simchowitz Interview: If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them by Nina Mdivani - New York

I spoke with Simchowitz about his new gallery, his views on the art market, collectors, and new digital environments we are all inhabiting.   read more...

Jack Whitten: I AM THE OBJECT at Hauser & Wirth by Zoe Hopkin - New York

Jack Whitten (1939-2018) had a fierce love for jazz. I begin with this because his artwork is full of it. “I want the visual equivalence of jazz.”   read more...

Jake McCord: Full Frontal at SHRINE by John Drury - New York

True to the title of this exhibition of Jake’s works, each is bold – in flat fields of color – and beautiful, in often complimentary color schemes.   read more...

Hélio Oiticica at Lisson Gallery by Jonathan Goodman - New York

A poet of the favelas, or makeshift slums, found in Rio de Janeiro, Oiticica created installations that were influenced by the social circumstances of his environment.   read more...

A Profile of Filip Fabian by Vittoria Benzine - New York

His work often centers around wildlife, flora, and fauna, motifs present throughout tattoo history.   read more...

LIGHT! ACTION! COLOR! Anthony Haden-Guest on The Practice of Andy Moses - New York

Andy Moses’ father, Ed Moses, was an artist with the Ferus Gallery, now enshrined as LA’s Cool School, and Andy grew up in the Santa Monica Canyon, looking out onto the ocean.   read more...

Fragile Figures: Beings in Time at 21c Museum Hotel in Nashville, TN by Joe Nolan - New York

A sprawling multimedia exhibition in Nashville examines people, power and portraiture.   read more...

A Profile of Destiny Turner by Vittoria Benzine - New York

Turner’s greatest passion lies in working with flowers, an area that solidifies her inner conflict into something concrete and literal.   read more...

Nature’s Bookkeeper: How Morel Doucet Maps the Changing Landscape of Miami by E. Murphy - New York

It is not just the social history of porcelain that intrigues Doucet, but also the spiritual energy of using something directly from the earth.   read more...

Rachel Klinghoffer at One River Woodbury by Alfred Rosenbluth - New York

For each of her works, the materials lists are essential to conveying the works’ full content to the viewer; the element of self-disclosure is essential to considering Klinghoffer’s work as a whole.   read more...

Jenny Saville at Gagosian by Jonathan Goodman - New York

The title of the show, “Elpis,” means Hope and is taken from an anecdote told by the Greek poet Hesiod, in which Hope is unable to escape from the box Pandora closed after releasing all the horrors it contained.   read more...

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