By Sarah Douglas 9/13/11 7:56pm

Art

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Alex Katz and Gavin Brown at an Elizabeth Peyton exhibition at the Metropolitan Opera earlier this year.

When Gavin Brown Met Alex Katz: An Artist's New Show Is At An Unexpected Venue

When you’re sitting inside Alex Katz’s studio, a spacious, light-filled fifth-floor loft on West Broadway, it’s easy to forget the bustling streets below.

What you might expect to read next is that the 84-year-old painter, whose bald pate and sinewy build lend him a monk-like aspect, who has lived and worked in this space since 1968, when Soho was an industrial slum—before the artists arrived, before the galleries moved in, and before retail forced them all out—leads an isolated life, toiling away at his canvases, far above the fray, immune to any sense of competition.

Not so. Read More

By Michael Wilson 7/05/11 7:28pm

Galleries

B. Wurtz: Works 1970–2011 at Metro Pictures

B. Wurtz and Peter Nadin Prove It’s Easy Being Green

Recycle, reuse, conserve, go green, go organic—all the exhortations of today’s pop-environmentalism—have been anticipated by artists, as two current exhibitions prove.

1. SLEEPING 2. EATING 3. KEEPING WARM. As declarations of priority go, B. Wurtz’s handwritten list Three Important Things (1973) is disarmingly modest, and emblematic of his down-home style. While numerous artists have salvaged Read More

By Will Heinrich 5/18/11 12:16am

Galleries

Malevich Cocktails and Bullet Holes: William Kentridge at Marian Goodman, Nate Lowman at Gavin Brown

Soho Eckstein, South African artist William Kentridge’s self-portrait as beneficiary of white privilege, is feeling nostalgic for the clarity of a well-turned lie. Eckstein, as always, remains in Johannesburg, but Mr. Kentridge’s latest stop-motion animated portrait of him is playing at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.

Onto the film’s title, “Other Faces,” fall two Read More

By Rachel Wolff 4/13/10 10:11pm

Gavin Brown: The Heir Apparent

On a brisk but sunny Saturday afternoon, Gavin Brown’s art gallery seemed the only hub of activity on the quiet, semi-industrial and more-or-less deserted Greenwich Street on the far West Side of Lower Manhattan. Despite Chelsea-esque white walls, poured concrete floors and two gallerinas up front, the space had its own offbeat character—from its relatively Read More

By Elisabeth Franck 9/09/02 12:00am

Angry Art Dealer Schachter Builds West Village ‘Bilbao’

Forty-year-old art dealer Kenny Schachter took in the Spartan splendor of his new Greenwich Village art gallery and smiled an infectious smile. Uptown in Chelsea, and on the East Side, things were looking grim. From Mr. Schachter’s perspective, the mood reminded him of the early 90′s, when scores of galleries went bankrupt and hundreds of Read More