by Will Brand on January 31, 2012
Midway through Roberta Smith’s recent review of Damien Hirst’s Complete Spot Paintings, she asked: “Am I grading on a curve?” It’s a good question, and one that recognizes the difficulty of measuring art on a shifting scale: a good show at one gallery is a disappointment at another, and the best show in January might have been middling in the bustle of October.
Make no mistake: Rashid Johnson’s Rumble is one of the best shows in New York right now. It’s a tightly interwoven, confidently executed show that looks good, sounds smart, and plays to the preternatural ability to move between media that is Johnson’s greatest strength. At the same time, it has obvious flaws: it is unmoving, at times indecipherable, and falls into the Conceptualist trap of sounding better as a press release than it looks as a show.
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by Whitney Kimball and Christopher Schreck on November 4, 2011
While hoards of people are protesting in the cold and losing their jobs, we are perversely getting excited for the Performa Biennial and wondering whether Neo Rauch will pull off a good show at Zwirner. A dark cloud of French existentialists will descend over Metro Pictures, Paul McCarthy's dismembered Disney characters will deck the halls of Hauser & Wirth, and best of all, Klaus von Nichtsaggend Gallery just unleashed its online exhibition space klausgallery.net, which is booked with upcoming shows. Though we haven't posted anything yet, we know there will be more OWS art events coming soon.
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