By Will Heinrich 9/20/11 7:05pm

Exhibit

DJED (2009-2011) by Matthew Barney.

Richard Serra's Junction/Cycle at Gagosian Gallery and Matthew Barney's DJED at Gladstone Gallery

The materials of Richard Serra’s two enormous new sculptures, currently dominating the Gagosian Gallery on 24th Street, will be recognizable to anyone who knows Mr. Serra’s work. They’re made from curved, continuous steel plates more than thirteen feet high, rusted into shades from powdery orange to Martian mahogany, and marked with what are or appear to be scales, drips, streaks, stretch marks, shadows, calcium deposits, water stains, and lightning bolts. The rust continues so evenly that it’s only the occasional glint of a silvery, unrusted corner that looks like evidence of the human hand. Seen from above, their shapes are also recognizable: Cycle is a triskelion composed of three floppy, interlocking “S”s, which create three roughly circular clearings and three spiraling corridors. Junction, also made of steel plates doubled into corridors, looks more like a pinched, four-pointed star. Read More

By Adam Lindemann 7/07/10 1:39am

Art Collector

The Grand Tourist

In the art world, summer is the time to make the pilgrimage: Events in Europe, public and private, afford much to marvel at, to think about-and, possibly, to buy.

FROM BASEL: THE Swiss have a few things to teach us about art collecting, given their appetite for it and the superb way they exhibit their Read More

By Molly Fischer 9/28/09 5:55pm

Apartmaster Cycle

Confirming a rash of late-August rumors, Brownstoner says today that Bjork and Matthew Barney will in fact be moving to Brooklyn Heights. No word yet on whether they will be bringing their anthropomorphic cats and vats of Vaseline.

By Mario Naves 6/26/06 12:00am

A Queen of All Media Misses Grand Synthesis

You’ve got to hand it to an artist who could even conceive of an erotic burrito, and then muster up the talent to create a sculpture fulfilling the idea’s absurdist promise. There it is, at the beginning of The Art of Betty Woodman, a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring more than 50 Read More

By Mario Naves 6/26/06 12:00am

A Queen of All Media Misses Grand Synthesis

You’ve got to hand it to an artist who could even conceive of an erotic burrito, and then muster up the talent to create a sculpture fulfilling the idea’s absurdist promise. There it is, at the beginning of The Art of Betty Woodman, a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring more than 50 Read More

By NYO Staff 6/16/03 12:00am

The Quiet One

So far, Deborah Treisman is shaping up to be the George Harrison of the storied New Yorker fiction department-she’s the quiet one.

“It’s been great to not have any press about me for awhile,” confessed the 33-year-old fiction editor on Friday, June 6. She was picking over a plate of salmon at the Bryant Park Read More

By Mario Naves 3/24/03 12:00am

Zigzagging Between Extremes-Sometimes Getting Away With It

Bill Jensen is one of our most interesting-and inconsistent-painters. After looking at his recent pictures at the Mary Boone Gallery, I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s interesting precisely because he’s inconsistent. Over the years, his landscape-based abstractions have zigzagged between extremes: between the lumbering and the graceful, the undercooked and the right-on, the self-conscious Read More

By Hilton Kramer 3/10/03 12:00am

Leonardo Da Vinci Left Breathtaking Painting Incomplete

It’s with high expectations-indeed, the highest-that we go to an exhibition of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. And the exhibition that Carmen C. Bambach has organized at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman certainly meets those expectations with the requisite inventory of marvels. We expect genius; Leonardo’s draftsmanship turns out Read More