1STDIBS INTROSPECTIVE
Ivan Navarro
Certain dates on the calendar are naturally associated with stops on the international art fair circuit - the week after Thanksgiving means the heat of Miami, early June brings the discreet Swiss charm of Basel and the first week of March is all about hopping over slush piles in New York...
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
Ivan Navarro
Wear comfortable shoes. The Armory Show, New York's biggest contemporary art fair, up through Sunday, offers thousands of artworks. Last year, at least 60,000 people attempted the gallery booth crawl. This year, organizers expect as high a turnout, given the returning health of the contemporary-art market.
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ART INFO
Ivan Navarro
NEW YORK- "This is the art dealer. He sells the things that are good for you. Why not purchase art?" So reads a Silkscreen-on-canvas piece by Los Angeles artist Andrew Hahn, on display at the booth of New York gallery UNTITLED at this year's edition of New York's Annual contemporary art...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ivan Navarro
Art fairs are for art lovers. There's really no way around it. You can say that the demean art, that they're all about commerce. You can complain about the crowds, the bad food, the ventilation. I hear you. And yet if art is something you must have- or think you want to have- in your life, you stand to gain...
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WHITEWALL MAGAZINE
Kenny Scharf
Today, Paul Kasmin’s two exhibitions of Kenny Scharf – “NATURAFUTURA” and “THREE DOZEN!” – open at the gallery’s two Chelsea locations. Last week, Whitewall spoke with Scharf over the phone from his LA studio about his mutually exclusive love for donuts and nature.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Will Ryman
THE first sign of spring this year in New York may be the work of Will Ryman, whose site-specific art installation, "The Roses," will be unveiled on Jan. 25. It will cover 10 blocks of Park Avenue with an unseasonable crop of giant pink and red rose blossoms...
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ARTFORUM
Erik Parker
This compact selection of works showcases Erik Parker’s adept combination of trippy biomorphic figuration and aggressive neon palette, to jolting effect. The canvases and works on paper can be sorted in terms of their (distant) family resemblance to traditional genres, such as portrait and still life...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
William Copley
Sanctified art movements aside, most artists worthy of the name are loners and renegades. They operate without liscenses - or Ph.D's - striving to be themselves as only they can, as clearly and instensely as possible. This is very hard work, and when they succeed, especially over time, we are the beneficiaries...
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ART INFO
Robert Zungu
Despite the title of Robert Zungu's show at Paul Kasmin's tiny space on West 27th Street, there are no works on display that could strictly be called monochromes...
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BOMB MAGAZINE
Deborah Kass
In 1992, I first saw pictures of multiple heads of Barbara Streisand in a grid that pirated Andy Warhol's self-portraits outrageously. What was I to make of them? They were by a Deborah Kass, a name new to me. I could have walked away but I didn't. Why would a younger artist appropriate the master appropriator? It had to be an homage. But why Streisand?
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NEW YORK POST
Deborah Kass
Andy Warhol saw art in a Campbell soup can; Audrey Flack found meaning in a box of Manischewitz matzo meal. Warhol's muse was Elvis, while Deborah Kass had...Barbra Streisand. Haven't heard of Flack and Kass? That's partly the point of "Shifting the Gaze...
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BROOKLYN RAIL
Deborah Kass
Lecturer, critic, and independent curator Terry R. Myers recently spoke with artist Deborah Kass, withe forthcoming exhibition "MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times" will show at Paul Kasmin Gallery September 23- October 30, 2010, about her life and work.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
David LaChapelle
The Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea happens to reside next door to the nightclub Marquee. This meant the opening of photographer David LaChapelle's show "American Jesus" Tuesdsay coincided with the launch party for the soundtrack to MTV's "Jersey Shore." You...
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ITALIAN VOGUE
David LaChapelle
All of his closest friends were there last night, in New York at the High Line Room of the Standard Hotel, to celebrate the opening of the latest David Lachapelle exhibition/provocation. American Jesus is the name of the exhibition, which is a collection...
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WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY
David LaChapelle
The name David LaChapelle may be synonymous with celebrity portraiture (he's shot everyone from Lady Gaga to Hillary Rodham Clinton during his 30-year career), but, as the 47-year-old photographer proudly notes, his surname, French for "the chapel," is Huguenot in origin...
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THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
David LaChapelle
For years, David LaChapelle made his living and his reputation as a fashion photographer known for outlandish images of celebrities (and later, friends) like Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson. Rising to the top of the magazine heap-he photographed everyone from Madonna and...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mark Ryden
Fathered by figures like Big Daddy Roth and Robert Williams, a movement affectionately called Lowbrow by its adherents has been percolating out of the quasi-underground pop culture of Southern California since the 1970's. Lowbrow paintings typically feature illustrative technique and comically...
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INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
Mark Ryden
You don't have to invent a movement to be considered its ambassador; you just have to be the best at it - or at least its most popular practitioner. And painter Mark Ryden, whose first major solo show in seven years, "The Gay 90s Olde Tyme Art Show," opened last week at Paul Kasmin Gallery, has...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE
Mark Ryden
Attention amateur butchers, meat lovers and hungry aesthetes: At the Paul Kasmin Gallery, the artist Mark Ryden is doing wonders with off cuts at his new show, "The Gay 90's: Olde Tyme Art Show." The paintings of a Gibson girl riding a bicycle built for two with Jesus and a brooding beauty in period ...
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THE DAILY BEAST
Mark Ryden
Sweet Wishes, an animated short by Mark Ryden and his wife, Marion Peck, offers a succinct insight into a 47-year-old artist's surreal aesthetic.
The film opens upon an adorable girl, perhaps 5 years old, and her two companions, one being either a baby or a highly naturalistic doll, the other a teddy bear in the ...
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TIME OUT NEW YORK
Simon Hantaï
In 1960, the French Conceptualist painter Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) invented pliage, a method of painting in which he folded, crumpled, tied and trampled upon his canvases before applying pigment to the areas left exposed. Greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock's drip compositions, these works were neither...
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ARTINFO
Mattia Bonetti
NEW YORK-Mattia Bonetti is receiving a double dose of recognition this month with a new show of his elegant art furniture on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery and a new monograph from Skria Rizzoli that calls for a fresh take on the designer, who is best known in America for the quirky wrought-iron pieces he...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
Here's a show that might brighten your mood in these dark economic times. Either that or the glossy spectacle of Mattia Bonetti's conspicuously expensive-looking furniture will make you want to start a Communist revolution. With and insouciant disregard for...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
MATTIA BONETTI is a soft-spoken, Swiss-born, Paris-dwelling designer who makes very loud furniture: lozenge-shape tables and consoles of lacquered fiberglass that resemble ribbon candy; a patinated bronze chair with a furry Drano-blue hide seat...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
If it's December, this must be Miami. Along with the art world, which flies south for Art Basel (Dec. 3-6), design aficionados head there for Design Miami which runs from today (the invitation-only opening) to Dec. 5. This year's mood: cautious optimism. For dealers in contemporary design, 2009 has been ...
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