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GOAT by David Colman

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by David Colman

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NOW—REDISCOVERING ARAKAWA

A whole generation of artists and art has been largely deprived of the intensely complex but wildly influential work of the Japanese-born artist Arakawa, who forged prescient and crucial links between Dadaism, abstract art, Minimalism, conceptual art, Pop art, and more. As a result, Arakawa’s work has an almost revelatory quality now, refreshingly apparent in Gagosian West 24th Street’s show of six seldom-seen paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.

Today’s golden age of rediscovery has truly embraced the spirit of the hunt, poring into art history books and poking into attics to resurrect and restore critical attention and acclaim to many unjustly neglected artists’s oeuvres and legacies. So it’s natural that one could assume a similar story line behind the career of the expansive and cerebral Japanese-American painter Arakawa.

But, as befits his always-surprising career, the story of Arakawa is no simple rediscovery of a neglected talent. In the first place, painting didn’t leave him—he left painting. Around 1990, Arakawa decided to shift his focus away from his art-making practice to work with his wife and longtime collaborator Madeline Gins on theoretical architecture projects. In the second place, this second act was like a second show all its own, producing ambitious, colorful, and mind-bending buildings like the Bioscleave House (aka Life Expanding Villa) they completed in East Hampton, NY, a decade ago (with a sculptural “floor” as uneven as an Alpine hike). Designed to rejuvenate the sensory system and reverse the aging process, this and other housing projects broke through many boundaries: not just of art, but architecture, philosophy, phenomenology, biology, domesticity, cognitive theory, and probably a dozen other realms still to be named. READ MORE...

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"Bernie and buds" by David Colman

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NOW--Andy Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers

What's the latest in NOW? Thirty years after Andy Warhol's death, one of his totemic last works, Sixty Last Suppers is making a pilgrimage to the city where the city where the series made its haunting debut just weeks before the artist died, at the Museo del Novecento in Milan. Here, one of the shows curators why Warhol's Last Suppers have become such crucial works. Read on NOW by clicking here. 

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David Colman

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Two exhibitions explore artists’ and photographers’ portraits of their own studios

Concurrent shows at Gagosian in New York examine how artists and photographers portray their own studios