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Space is the Place—Great show at Joshua Liner Gallery featuring oil on linen by Michael Kagan which showcases man’s moments of triumph over nature’s limits captured through iconic imagery as seen to the left. Also noteworthy is a cool show by Aïda R…

Space is the Place—Great show at Joshua Liner Gallery featuring oil on linen by Michael Kagan which showcases man’s moments of triumph over nature’s limits captured through iconic imagery as seen to the left. Also noteworthy is a cool show by Aïda Ruilova at Marlborough Chelsea featuring a 25-foot wide projection of a digitally transferred Super-16mm film, a large-scale inflatable, and a group of cut-paper collages. Cool night, check it out!

tags: Michael Kagan, Joshua Liner Gallery, William Steiger, margaret thatcher projects, Aida Ruilova, Marlborough Chelsea, Gallery, Gallery hopping, gallery night, chelsea, chelsea art gallery, chelsea gallery night, chelsea nyc, nyc, art, photography
Thursday 02.11.16
Posted by Monica Welsh
 
Busts, Busts & More Busts—South African artist Claudette Schreuders has a new show at Jack Shainman Gallery on 24th Street featuring a group of painted and carved busts. One is a full body self portrait of the artist, while others represent her …

Busts, Busts & More Busts—South African artist Claudette Schreuders has a new show at Jack Shainman Gallery on 24th Street featuring a group of painted and carved busts. One is a full body self portrait of the artist, while others
represent her influence®s. There is an interesting realness to these works, Check it out!

tags: claudette schreuders, Jack Shainman Gallery, Maya Lin, bernd & hilla becher, Mike Weiss Gallery, Olivo Barberi, Yancey Richardson, west of dirty, gallery, gallery hopping, gallery night, Thursday, Thursday Night, Gallery Map, Where the good parties are
Tuesday 02.02.16
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Marcel Dzama & Raymond Pettibon

Forgetting the Hand

David Zwirner Gallery

Raymond was there in person signing zones and skateboards and other ephemera for fans. He looked so sweaty and intense as if just being there was all he could muster through force of will. His exquisite corpse work with Marcel is very personal, intimate, and of a zine quality, It really refused the wall, which is pretty cool. The paper looked like it wanted to leave the wall and crawl home into the dank, dark quiet of a basement apartment. Check this out before it blows away…

tags: Marcel Dzama, Raymond Pettibon, David Zwirner, art, zine, zines, gallery, gallery hopping, gallery night, chelsea, chelsea art gallery, nyc, nyc art, west of dirty
Thursday 01.14.16
Posted by Monica Welsh
 
New Year, New Openings! — Time to warm up with some new art and new art openings. Great group show by guest curator Noah Becker at Berry Campbell. Across the street Penelope Umbrico (an artist best known for appropriating images found on the Interne…

New Year, New Openings! — Time to warm up with some new art and new art openings. Great group show by guest curator Noah Becker at Berry Campbell. Across the street Penelope Umbrico (an artist best known for appropriating images found on the Internet) has a cool show at Bruce Silverstein featuring cool photos of Grand Central and over a million shots of the moon from flickr that she made screen shots from. Internetistas will be there. Check it out!

tags: berry campbell, gallery night, gallery night 2016, chelsea gallery, art, nyc, nyc art, Noah Becker, Penelope Umbrico, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, David Zwirner, Sam Friedman, Josh Sperling, Joshua Liner Gallery, David Mann, Margret Thatcher Projects, westofdirty, gallery map
Monday 01.04.16
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Brett Amory
This Land is Not for Sale: Forgotten, Past and Foreseeable Futures
Jonathan Levine Gallery

Great show depicting store fronts from the past and the future in NYC. So detailed, yet etherial that you can still see the wheat paste and graffiti permantely embedded into the images.

tags: @jonathanlevinegallery, Brett Amory, art, gallery, gallery night, painting, nyc, west of dirty
Wednesday 11.18.15
Posted by Monica Welsh
 
Street Art Rules!— 23rd Street will have 2 great shows this Thursday night. Faith 47 will have her solo debut at Jonathan Levine Gallery and Zevs will have a great show at DeBuck gallery. Check it out!

Street Art Rules!— 23rd Street will have 2 great shows this Thursday night. Faith 47 will have her solo debut at Jonathan Levine Gallery and Zevs will have a great show at DeBuck gallery. Check it out!

tags: Faith 47, Jonathan Levine Gallery, Zevs, debuckgallery, riusuke fukahori, Joshua Liner Gallery, tony curana, west of dirty, gallery, gallery night, gallery hopping, thursday gallery night, chelsea, nyc, chelsea gallery night
Wednesday 11.18.15
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Yayoi Kusama

Give Me Love

Obliteration Room

Every Yayoi show here at Zwirner is epic. So cool that they brought the Obliteration room from Australia to NYC. Day one, and the white walls of the suburban tract home are already getting covered with dots. The staff is a little controlling in the process, but such a cool and fun execution of her work. I feel like she is so much of a better conceptual artist than an executional artist. This show rocks. Bring your kids, they’ll have a blast! Through June 13th 2015.

tags: yayoikusama, David Zwirner, gallery, art, participation, fun, kids, dots, stickers, gallery night, chelsea, chelsea gallery hopping
Saturday 05.09.15
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John Wesley

1961 to 1966

Fredericks & Freiser Gallery

Interesting POP art from the 1960′s that hasn’t been seen in a long time. Curious works indeed. Check it out through June 13, 2015.

tags: john wesley shipp, art, fredericksandfreiser, gallery, gallery night, gallery hopping, west of dirty, art scene, pop art
Saturday 05.09.15
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Constantin Brancusi

Paul Kasmin Gallery NYC

GOAT. Favorite sculptor of all time. This guy was visionary and inspired generations of sculptors through the ages like Isamu Naguchi, etc. Cool to see such valuable works close at hand. Check it out through July 10, 2015.

tags: Constantin Brancusi, paul kasmin gallery, art, chelsea gallery, chelsea gallery hopping, gallery night, gallery hopping
Saturday 05.09.15
Posted by Monica Welsh
 
Dude Looks Like Jesus—Lisa Yuskavage has a cool show which references past historical painting ideas with her own pixie-ish waifish spin on it in many hues. Looks like a fun show and a great opening. Berry Campbell has a great show by Syd Solomon sh…

Dude Looks Like Jesus—Lisa Yuskavage has a cool show which references past historical painting ideas with her own pixie-ish waifish spin on it in many hues. Looks like a fun show and a great opening. Berry Campbell has a great show by Syd Solomon showing works from the 1970’s with bold provocative use of color and application of paint. Check it out!

tags: lisa yuskavage, David Zwirner, syd solomon, mark knoerzer, bertrand delacroix, west of dirty, gallery, gallery hopping, gallery night, chelsea art gallery, Thursday, thursdaypartymap, thursday gallery night, nyc, NYC gallery hopping
Wednesday 04.22.15
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