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Man Bites Dog Bites Man

Posted on June 10, 2024 by melissa

published in Art Spiel on Jan. 29, 2024   John O’Connor at L’Space presented in conjunction with Pierogi Gallery Noahbot-colored pencil and graphite on paper. 83 x 69.5. 2013. Photo courtesy of John Berens There is an astonishing amount of … Continue reading →

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Stéphane Mandelbaum at The Drawing Center

Posted on February 19, 2024 by melissa

Published in Art Spiel Nov. 29, 2023 Ernst Röhm, 1981, Graphite, gouache, marker, and color pencil on paper. 54 3/4 x 47 1/4 inches Who was Stephane Mandelbaum? A closeted gay man? The child of Holocaust survivors? A liar? A … Continue reading →

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A Stage Within a Stage- Ye Qin Zhu at Dimin

Posted on January 11, 2024 by melissa

Published on ArtSpiel.org, Oct. 8, 2023. A Stage Within a Stage-mixed media on eight fitted panels. 5 x 27 feet. 2022-2023 There’s a riot going on. That’s what I thought as I stood in front of Ye Qin Zhu’s large-scale … Continue reading →

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Here Now: Contemporary Photographers of the Hudson Valley

Posted on November 30, 2023 by melissa

Published August 30, 2023 by Melissa Stern on Artspiel Phyllis Galembo  Photographer, Carnival Mexico. Fujiflex print. 30 x 30 2017. The Kleinart James Center in Woodstock, New York, is currently presenting a very ambitious and interesting photography exhibition. Entitled Here … Continue reading →

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A Garden Grows in the Meatpacking District

Posted on November 2, 2023 by melissa

Specimens.- 2018. 287 pieces of wood with powdered graphite, 42” x 35” x 6” approx. Posted on July 25, 2023 by Melissa Stern Sculptor Loren Eiferman has brought a veritable garden of strange to Ivy Brown Gallery this summer. Her … Continue reading →

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Just say YES to NADA!

Posted on June 22, 2023 by melissa

Posted on Artspiel, May 20, 2023 by Melissa Stern Paul Wackers- First Time, Long Time. Jack Hanley Gallery I’ve been to more art fairs than I can count, but the ones that I’ve had fun at I could count on … Continue reading →

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Ulf Puder at Marc Straus Gallery

Posted on June 15, 2023 by melissa

Posted on January 30, 2023 on ArtSpiel Taormina, Oil on canvas,39.4 x 47.25, 2018 Marc Straus Gallery is currently presenting the paintings of Ulf Puder, a German artist whose landscape paintings are deeply evocative and strangely alluring. I was not … Continue reading →

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RADIANCE: THEY DREAM IN COLOR. THE UGANDA PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

Posted on June 1, 2023 by melissa

  Posted on December 1, 2022 by Melissa Stern in ArtSpiel Install photo of Radiance: They Dream in Color The Venice Biennale, a sprawling art Universe, takes over the city every other year alternating its focus between art and architecture. … Continue reading →

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Vanessa German – SAD RAPPER at Paul Kasmin

Posted on April 20, 2023 by melissa

  Published on ArtSpiel Posted on September 26, 2022 by Melissa Stern Partial installation view of Sad Rapper So much has happened in six years. It was six years ago that I last wrote about the work of Vanessa German … Continue reading →

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Motel in the Catskills

Posted on April 6, 2023 by melissa

Published August 17, 2022 in ArtSpiel The rural Catskill mountain village of Fleischmanns an unlikely a place to find a world-class contemporary art installation. In the nineteenth century, the village was a flourishing, prosperous Catskill vacation spot for the New … Continue reading →

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