Archive for September, 2008
Jerry Saltz On The Latest Openings In Chelsea, New York
More than 80 exhibitions opened in Chelsea on the first big night of the art season, a couple of weeks ago. Most are mediocre, as usual, and this many so-so shows early on makes one suspect that a pattern is forming. But amid mediocrity, the needle does seesaw, and three shows (one good, one bad, one terrible) stood out as I made the rounds. The shockmeister Andres Serrano has opened a new show as well, and it’s another doozy (below) – skip it in favour of Neil Campbell’s pitch-perfect way of blending architecture, placement on the wall, size and edges, creating retinal and phenomenological power. 
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 08, Liverpool
littlewhitehead, 'So Many Fellows Find Themselves', 2007 Plaster, wax, wood, clothes, chair 150 x 140 x 70cm (Craig Little B 1980 Glasgow, and Blake Whitehead B 1985 Lanark, Scotland 2003-2007 BA...
Doug Mcclemont On Rob Pruitt At Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Rob Pruitt The iPhone is the new navel. Everybody who's anybody has one, some have the capacity to hold more than others and they accumulate lint like crazy. Judging...
Sam Branton: Saatchi Online Critics' Choice By Ana Finel Honigman
Sam Branton, 'The line I shot and what never miss', 2007 29cm x 19cm The Chapman Brothers irreverently painted googley-eyed monsters on Goya's "Disasters of War" etchings; Duchamp butched up...
Showdown: The Finalists Of Round Two Announced
Allan Switzer Nikki Wilson Congratulations to the two finalists of the second round of SHOWDOWN competition, Allan Switzer and Nikki Wilson. They will now go head-to-head until 9am next...
Saatchi Online Top 10 Chosen By Ana Finel Honigman – 29 September – 5 October 08
These ten artists' sharp, witty work brings bite to Francis Bacon's declaration that 'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense...
Atsuko Koyanagi In Conversation With Ashley Rawlings
Atsuko Koyanagi Gallery Koyanagiis one of Tokyo's top contemporary art galleries, representing major artists such as Sophie Calle, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Mariko Mori, Rika Noguchi, Hiroshi Sugimoto...
Saatchi Gallery Artists To Exhibit At Museum Presents, Scope Art Fair, London
SCOPE London art fair takes place this October at Lord's Cricket Ground, not far from Regents Park, and within walking distance of Frieze. SCOPE London will present...
Yevgeniy Fiks At The Winkleman Gallery, New York
"Adopt Lenin" is the first solo exhibition for the Russian-born New York artist Yevgeniy Fiks. Continuing his exploration of the post-Soviet dialogue and the legacy of attitudes about...
Esther Yva Wins September's Your Studio Competition
Esther Yva's winning entry SEPTEMBER 2008 WINNER SELECTED BY ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST The winner of the September Your Studio competition is Esther Yva from Bonn in Germany. Anthony Haden-Guest,...
















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