Taryn Simon

PAPERWORK AND THE WILL OF CAPITAL

Gagosian on 24th has an exhibit of the recent works of Taryn Simon, who has reduced the high tension political meetings of dignitaries down to the florist who arranged the bouquet that sat at the meeting. She strips away the context revealing the flowers that were designed for the event. One visual had no flowers, how sad. Also included in the show  are flower pressings of the type of flowers presented at these events. Framing is awesome. Check it out through March 26, 2016

Gregory Crewdson @Gagosian —  Cathedral of the pines, his latest set of images to be shown took 4 years in the making and 2 years of post-production which makes for an intense image maker. This show was big, loud and crowded, everyone naked and revealing themselves to the dark nature of real life. Open through 3-15-16. Check it out! 

Michael Heizer

Altars

Gagosian Gallery NYC

Epic works on a grand scale. These are monumental works that to his quote “Size is real. Scale is imagined sized” He plays with the real thing at a monumental scale. He dragged a huge boulder through LA  and deposited it at LACAMA over a trench that you can walk under and here at Gagosian you can see additional hugh examples of boulders in the negative. Check it out through July 2, 2015.

Nancy Rubins

Our Friend Fluid Metal

These sculptures created out of playground metal children’s spring rockers are loaded with metaphor and create a visual accumulation that resembles undersea coral. Removed from playgrounds all over the US because of their lead content, they take everyone of a certain age back to their childhood. Really fun and fun to be around sculptures. So glad that Gagosian Gallery now lets you photograph inside their buildings—this show is photo worthy! Check it out.

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Jeff Koons

A Retrospective

Whitney Museum of American Art

Jeff Koons show has something for everyone, no matter what your taste is. And I think that is the point of this whole exhibition. Jeff Koons mines popular culture and feeds it back the icons and totems of their collective “tastes” and shares it in exquisite form, without passing judgement on whether or not these works should be considered as high-brow or low-brow. Tastey Show. Check it out.

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Jeff Koons

A Retrospective—Banality Series

Whitney Museum of American Art

In one of the rooms, the Whitney as created this long, series of pedestals that you can walk along on both sides of the sculptures and see his Banality Series as a set. Very cool party of the retrospective. Jeff Koons is always playing with cultures’ sense of taste and these low brow fetishistic type objects have been raised to a high level. It is especially great to see the Michael Jackson and Bubbles the chimp sculpture. Jeff Koons has said that if he could have been anyone else in the world, he would have been Michael Jackson. This piece was created at the height of his popularity. Check it out.

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Glenn Brown

Necrophiliac Springtime

Gagosian Gallery

Darkness. Very end of times with a pastiche of frosting. Momento Mori. We all die. This is exquisite and large. Up close it is immaculate and controlled and from afar it has a frosting appeal. The sculptures are kin to the paintings. Check it out.

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