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    September?

    “… we have an interesting situation here in which we are supposed to make things that aren’t boring… as the great music producer Tom Dowd said, “…the first rule of writing a song is don’t bore us get to the…

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    Fly on the Wall – Yearning for Relaxation

    “Over the past hundred and thirty years and more the best new painting and sculpture (and the best new poetry) have in their time proven a challenge and a trial to the art lover — a challenge and a trial…

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    FLY ON THE WALL – Delicious Mischief

    Americans have little patience for depth or nuance. We are a literal people. We want things when we want them. We prefer the surface of things. We want the answers to our questions presented to us with no funny business.…

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    FLY ON THE WALL – Dead But Won’t Lay Down

    “In a period epitomized by Godard’s “Breathless” (1960), striving young Europeans shook off the war-dimmed legacies of their national cultures for the confident flash of things American. New York Abstract Expressionism and Pop art and, a bit later, minimalism became…

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    Robin Greenwood

    Artists are a strange lot. They can be pig headed and argumentative. And some, when they are totally convinced that they are right, can be downright offensive. Hey, artists are human. And that was what appealed to me straight away…

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    Hello, World! Or The Passage From First-Order to Second-Order Painting

    Li Trincere, Untitled (T14), 2022 David Richard Gallery, New York https://davidrichardgallery.com/exhibit/620-li-trincere https://davidrichardgallery.com/exhibit/621-li-trincere Mike ZahnFebruary 2023 Today, in 2023, a painter rarely presents work without an aside which admits to the dispossession of this moment. It becomes clear as style is…

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    “Julianne Montague: A Composition in Six Parts”

    New Work by Mike Zahn Gesso ArtspaceMaria Lassnig Straße 33 1100 Wien January 2023 MZ_JM:1.17.22 “Julianne Montague: A Composition in Six Parts“, 2023Detail of gallery viewGesso Artspace “Julianne Montague: A Composition in Six Parts” presents the work of one artist by…