Whitney Biennial News
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Paul McCarthy’s animated, life size- mannequin tableau “Cultural Gothic” at first suggests a benign department store window display. It actually depicts a boy having sexual intercourse with a stuffed goat, as his father approvingly looks on.
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A horse costume lay on a glossy white vanity in Sarah Michelson’s dressing room; Sam Lewitt offered tiny spinning spheres emerging from what looked like an oil slick; and framed pages of an old celestial handbook turned up on the walls throughout the museum, placed there by Lutz Bacher.
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The “Whitney Biennial 2012” is certainly not great or even very good overall (it may prove to be a disaster), but that doesn’t much matter.
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Laurel Gitlen opened her art gallery of the same name on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in September 2008.
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It’s the show people love to hate: the Whitney Museum has gathered 51 artists for its 76th Biennial. Some are just ghastly, but that’s expected of course. (See our review by Lance Esplund).
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The Armory Show spreads over two hangar-size piers along the Hudson River in New York. It’s crowded and confusing.
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Ever since New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch closed his SoHo gallery to become director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the big question in the art world has been: Which blue-chip gallery will land his young star Tauba Auerbach?
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Lenny is happy in the Hamptons.
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Joe Bradley, 35, is a man with two art shows running now in New York, each with works done in a totally different style. Take that, Picasso.
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Salma Hayek , James Franco and John Baldessari will help Los Angeles Nomadic Division , a 9-month-old nonprofit, raise $250,000 for public art exhibitions.
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