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Arts and culture reviews published in news media.

Stéphane Mandelbaum at The Drawing Center

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

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

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

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 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 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 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

  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

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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My Upstate Art Weekend Adventure

July 30, 2022 in ArtSpiel Vanessa German,  Black on Black, 2021, Handmade folk art cloth Black woman pin cushion, glory, wood, love, astroturf, Black seed beads, confusion, Black rhinestone trim, Black bead trim, (they traded your grandmother for a handful of … Continue reading

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