By Matt Chaban 8/23/11 9:13am

Tails of Retail

No joke! (Winick Realty)

NYUck, NYUck: Spencer’s Gifts Proves Broadway Is Nothing More Than a Tacky Mall

Soho and Noho has become one of those places “real” New Yorkers loathe to visit, like Times Square and Canal Street.

It’s jam-packed with funny smells, honking cars and gawking tourists. As if there were any question lower Broadway was anything more than an awful suburban mall, the kind of place most New Yorkers move here to escape, the latest lease at 691 Broadway proves it: Spencer’s Gifts is moving in. And who’s to blame? None other than that downtown scourge, N.Y.U. Read More

By Mario Naves 3/22/04 12:00am

Architectural Structures, With a Hint of the Surreal

The paintings of Kevin Wixted on display at Lohin Geduld Gallery are rigorous in structure and restricted in pictorial motif-so much so that you can almost miss the metaphysical aspect. These City States (the title of Mr. Wixted’s exhibition) are built out of abutting columns of systematic incident-stripes,checkerboards, grids and trellis-like patterning-all arranged on the Read More

By Mario Naves 3/22/04 12:00am

Currently Hanging

Architectural Structures,

With a Hint of the Surreal

The paintings of Kevin Wixted on display at Lohin Geduld Gallery are rigorous in structure and restricted in pictorial motif-so much so that you can almost miss the metaphysical aspect. These City States (the title of Mr. Wixted’s exhibition) are built out of abutting columns of Read More

By Hilton Kramer 9/15/03 12:00am

Monster Minimalism: Dia Beacon Museum A Vast, Ascetic Folly

Almost four decades have passed since an exhibition called Primary Structures (1966) was organized at the Jewish Museum in New York. For many of the people who saw it, Primary Structures was their first encounter with what was soon to be called Minimalism-an art so radically denuded of embellishment, complexity or any obvious visual appeal Read More

By Hilton Kramer 12:00am

Greatest Generation? Not By a Long Shot, But Interesting Show

Given the mini-scandal that erupted last month over Michael Kimmelman’s absurd pronouncement in The New York Times Magazine that the Minimalists, Conceptualists and Earth Artists who made their debut in the 1960′s can now be said to constitute the “Greatest Generation” in the history of American art, it’s surprising that so little critical attention has Read More

By Jeffrey Hogrefe 12:00am

Michael Gabellini Wins P/A; Inside Paula Cooper II

On April 13, Architecture magazine announced the 1999 recipients of the esteemed P/A award, given annually to young or undiscovered American and Canadian architects for design excellence in projects that are in the process of being completed. Michael Gabellini, best known for his interior design of Jil Sander stores and the Grant Selwyn Fine Art Read More