Friends on Art

Korn the band, Kim K, plaster, grunge, babies, Van Gogh, shoutouts, and our first “Curator Burn.”Join the friends as they visit the show Plastered by Nicole Eisenman at Anton Kern Gallery.

Foam, The Rectangle, intestines, ambivalent feelings, Martha Stewart, plastic, High School Musical, kisses.Join the friends as they visit the show Divine Consumer by Gina Beavers at Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC.

You can't spell God without Dog. The birth of Rome. A gay puppy with fleas. Summer hiatus. Heat waves. Join the friends as they visit the group show, Dog Days of Summer at Timothy Taylor in NYC. Artists include: Craigie Aitchison, Trisha Baga, Sophie Barber, Hanna Brody, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Ann Craven, Scott Csoke, Anthony Cudahy, Alex Da Corte, Armen Eloyan, Camilla Engström, Julia Felsenthal, Louis Fratino, Robert Gober, Camille Henrot, Peter Hujar, Timothy Hull, Paul-Sebastian Japaz, Susumu Kamijo, Alex Katz, Karen Kilimnik, Craig Kucia, Sean Landers, Sophie Larrimore, Sahara Longe, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eddie Martinez, Jesse Mockrin, Matthew Morrocco, Grandma Moses, Rocío Navarro, Justin Liam O'Brien, Gordon Parks, Hilary Pecis, Pablo Picasso, Paula Rego, Robert Roest, Will Ryman, Peter Saul, Allison Schulnik, Dana Schutz, Kiki Smith, Billy Sullivan, David Surman, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, William Wegman, and Jonas Wood.

Circles, fingerprints, gallery mop dog, train naps, ominous backgrounds, obsession, and WHO IS THIS PERSON. Join the friends as they head to Emotional Moonscapes, a show of paintings, sculptures, and video art by Jason Boyd Kinsella at Perrotin Gallery in NYC.

Inner tubes, in-and-out, vocab words, apricot juice, what is large format, and paper. Join the friends as they see Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys at the Brooklyn Museum. The show features 98 artworks by Black American, African, and African diasporic artists including Derrick Adams, Deana Lawson, Meleko Mokgosi, Gordon Parks, Kehinde Wiley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mickalene Thomas, Hassan Hajjaj, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, and Amy Sherald. 

“Wright” with a “W, spider webs, sewing needles, Dune, grief, and Black and Blue. Join the friends as they visit Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility. Artists include: American Artist, Kevin Beasley, Rebecca Belmore, Dawoud Bey, John Edmonds, Ellen Gallagher, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Tomashi Jackson, Titus Kaphar, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Joiri Minaya, Sandra Mujinga, Chris Ofili, Sondra Perry, Farah Al Qasimi, Faith Ringgold, Doris Salcedo, Lorna Simpson, Sable Elyse Smith, Stephanie Syjuco, Hank Willis Thomas, WangShui, Carrie Mae Weems, and Charles White.

Boob eyes, goodwill stickers, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ian McKellan, cobalt blue, and “artist burns”. Join the Friends as they visit Mathieu Malouf's show Women and Penguins at Nahmad Contemporary in New York City.

Layered cake, skin like marble, mountains of rubble, elephant foot, trash or treasure, and symbols. Join the Friends as they visit Re: Representation, a group show at James Fuentes on the Lower East Side. Artists include Areena Ang, Amanda Ba, Dominique Fung, Sasha Gordon, Ara Hao, Michael Ho, Kane Huynh, Min Jia, Catalina Ouyang, Oscar yi Hou, and Tommy Xie Xin. The show is open January 17—February 10, 2024.

Many lamps, falling woman projection, picket fence, take your shoes off, lay down in the bed, petting colors, and recognizable metal chairs. Join the Friends as they visit Pipilotti Rist’s Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon at Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine in New York City.

Bright pink nips, dog, erotic coconut, oil painting sex selfie, honeymoon on the beach, juicy brush strokes, and purple skin tones. Join the Friends as they visit Jenna Gribbon's Honeymoon Show at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in New York City.