Upper East Side Galleries

It’s On: Dealer Robert Blumenthal to Countersue Artist Dean Levin, Attorney Says

It's been two weeks since the Dean Levin filed a $200,000 lawsuit again Robert Blumenthal, the collector-turned-dealer who runs Robert Blumenthal Gallery on the Upper East Side. Mr. Levin, a process-based abstract artist once profiled in these pages, claimed that he had not been paid for the works from his solo show last May—there were 30, and the show sold out. Though it's not altogether so uncommon for a gallery—especially a smaller and newish one like Robert Blumenthal Gallery—to be slow to pay its artists, Mr. Levin had had enough, and to the litigation he went.

By Nate Freeman

‘Animal’ Planet: An Appreciation of Bruce Nauman

When you were younger and you played that game of trying to list all the 50 states, you always missed a couple of really good ones, say New Mexico or Alaska. Bruce Nauman is like that. No one would argue he isn't a major artist, kind of a cult, so much so that when you "get" him it's kind of an electric shock. But whenever you make those lists of really important artists, he's not there.

By Alexandra Peers

Art History’s Savvy Joker: Djordje Ozbolt’s Bone-Dry Visual Zingers at Hauser & Wirth

If Monty Python’s Flying Circus were to reunite and appoint an official artist-in-residence, they would likely choose Djordje Ozbolt.

By Ryan Steadman

The Missing Link: Galerie Perrotin States the Case for Jesús Rafael Soto

By Ryan Steadman

Smaller, But Still Bigger than a Molecule: Leo Villareal Reveals New Buckyball Works

By Rachel Small

One Man’s Trash: El Anatsui Remixes Refuse at Jack Shainman and Mnuchin

By Emily Nathan

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