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Mitchell-Innes & Nash

We Went to Chelsea: Blue Chip Edition, Part One

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on March 27, 2013
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Mitchell-Innes & Nash smells like hamster shavings, the quality of paintings made out of paint brushes at Paul Kasmin is debatable, and Zach Feuer’s Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg ain’t for kids.

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Highlights from Art Basel Miami Beach

by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch and Will Brand on December 6, 2012
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Art Basel Miami Beach is not fun, but sometimes, through the fluorescent lighting, puzzle-piece layout, and brazen privilege, you see some art you like. This is not a typical sentiment at an art fair, populated as they are with the type of work only a catnipped cat would love. However, this year we—and a few others—noticed something a little fishy: for an art fair, the work was in surprisingly good taste.

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“In plain sight” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

by Whitney Kimball on August 8, 2012
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Like most press releases for painting shows, the latest from Mitchell-Innes & Nash has something to say about The State of Painting. While we’d assumed that realist painting is willfully ignorant of progress, it tells us, we now realize that painting is “just one of many ways to process an image.” Is it?

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Current Chelsea Status: Fun

by Whitney Kimball on December 16, 2011
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In an effort to cover more art before shows close, AFC decided to visit a handful of galleries and report what we saw. More than usual, I wanted to stay longer. Here are my notes from five shows at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mixed Greens, Paula Cooper, and Tanya Bonakdar.

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There’s Still Shit Left To Do In December

by Whitney Kimball on December 8, 2011
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Don’t worry, we’ll be gentle. After this year’s auction protests, art fairs, and museum freakshows, it’s high time we sit our asses down to some video games. Here are a few art events that require little to no effort (in a good way) this month.

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New Reviews in Brief: First Chelsea, then the World

by Will Brand on April 19, 2011
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It’s tough finding time in an art critic’s busy schedule to criticize art, but we managed it this week. Our Reviews in Brief section is back with a vengeance, and we’ll be expanding it significantly over the next few months; too much goes unreported in this town, and we want to opine on the shows that fly under the radar just as much as the game-changers and train wrecks. For now, five shows we saw over the weekend in Chelsea.

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Kenneth Noland at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

by Will Brand on April 14, 2011
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Kenneth Noland Date: THURSDAY, MARCH 17TH 2011 - SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH 2011 Venue: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th Street AFC’s Rating: 9/10 (Will Brand) Kenneth Noland’s work shouldn’t be a surprise: he’s been around forever, he’s been in every museum that matters, and a lot of what needed to be said about him was said 50 years ago. Still, [...]

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Jacob Kassay, Robert Morris, Virginia Overton at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

by Will Brand on January 26, 2011
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Jacob Kassay, Robert Morris, Virginia Overton Date: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17TH 2010 - SATURDAY, JANUARY 29TH 2011 Venue: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th Street There are some awesome Robert Morris works in this show; it’d be a recommended show for that reason alone. Virginia Overton has some excellent contributions, as well: a huge wooden triangle in the middle of the [...]

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