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March 11th, 2008 | Articles
The show confirms impressions of a new, gray mood among younger artists, one at odds with the recent prevalence in international art of both commercial glitz and festivalist brass. Call it a decline in producer confidence…
Read the article by the New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl HERE
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I saw the Biennial and the Armory annex on the weekend and felt, well, underwhelmed. I agree that the participants all seem to be responding to what’s going on in the world right now (but isn’t that what artists have always done?), but I felt that the work tended to be more unresolved than anything else. Some good ideas were presented but, also, a whiff of the Emperor’s New Clothes was in the air… The crazy installations at the Armory were a lot of fun, though, and worth the price of admission (free!).
I hear that Cai Guo-Qiang’s gunpowder art at the Guggenhaeim is excellent…did you see that? I wonder about the Whitney…I’m never sure quite what to make of it…though usually one or two artists really stand out to me - last time was Sturtevant whose work blew me away and Josephine Meckseper. Did you like any work in particular ?
This year, I mean?
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