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Armory week parties continued

13 March 2016


Armory week parties continued
The next day I went to see Kai and Adrian Schachter’s show ‘Rubbish,’ which they put on with a bunch of their friends in Nolita. It was most definitely not rubbish. Here they are with Lucas Hoffman.
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I really liked this work by Adrian. It’s really strong and playful, not an easy line to tow.
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Next I went to Jorg Grimm’s 40th birthday party at the comically named Art Bar. Matthew Day Jackson messing around and writing on the box of a gift of a painting from Adam Helms.
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Always great to see Nick van Woert and Langdon Graves.
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The next day, I headed to the Met Breuer, which at first looked exactly the same as the Whitney used to.
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But the show is distinctly Met, chronicling unfinished painting from the Renaissance to the present. I love this drawing of Saint Barbara by Jan van Eyck from 1437. The level of detail is incomprehensible.
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Robert Smithson’s meaning of ‘unfinished’ is a bit different. I was fixated on this work and can imagine it on a massive scale.
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And this unfinished Lucien Freud painting is almost perfect in its unfinished quality, but is it wrong to view it as a final piece?
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I was thrilled to run into Isaac Julien.
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And we ended up watching Indian music.
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Then there was just enough time to run to MoMA PS1 and catch Night at The Museum. I am so happy I got a final chance to see Greater New York. #NoMoreCircles is made entirely of gummy bears.
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And Kevin Beasley’s gone round too, with a work made of an equally unlikely material, women’s dresses.