I first met Curtis Mann when he arrived with a small backpack at my San Francisco apartment to spend five nights on an inflatable mattress in my living room. He was there to give a lecture on his work at California College of the Arts, where I was a graduate student, and to surf as [...]
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Roy Lichtenstein Still Lifes
May 13, 2010 – 10:53 am
Still lifes are, perhaps, not the first things that come to mind when hearing the name Roy Lichtenstein, but after viewing last Saturday’s opening at Gagosian gallery, there’s no question that the pop artist could paint fruit bowls and vases with the best of them. The first exhibition ever to be fully dedicated to Lichtenstein’s [...]
Richard Prince’s Tiffany Paintings
May 12, 2010 – 1:09 pm
Gagosian’s uptown gallery was quite a motley scene last Friday evening, as an unorthodox assortment of art enthusiasts gathered to toast and, of course, view Richard Prince’s latest exhibition, The Tiffany Paintings. A veritable social experiment: well-to-do Park Avenue types not-so-subtly investigated downtown fixtures like Max Snow while sipping wine in the back courtyard. Marc [...]
Westside Story: New Painting by Jeff Koons @ Gagosian Gallery
December 24, 2009 – 8:22 am
On view through January 9, 2010 at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Jeff Koons: New Paintings challenges viewers to confront preconceived notions and look beyond abstraction. Stepping out of the realm of his kitschy sculptural interpretations of everyday objects – balloon animals and vacuums – the paintings ignite a dialogue between a fascination with [...]
