Issue No. 28 – Control

What is the nature of control? The desire for it—and to be free of it—are essential parts of both life and art.

The Thing and the Thing-In-Itself at Andrea Rosen Gallery

Image Above: ROBERT SMITHSON, Non-site: Line of Wreckage (Bayonne, New Jersey), 1968, Painted aluminum, broken concrete, framed map and three photo panels. Courtesy, Milwaukee Museum of Art ©Estate of Robert Smithson/ Licensed by VAGA, NY. Photograph by Efraim Lev-er Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to announce The Thing and the Thing-in-Itself, an exhibition comprising a tightly focused group of 20th-century masterworks curated by noted art historian Robert Hobbs.  Bringing together a compelling group of significant works, one by each of seven key 20th-century artists – Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth, René Magritte, Piero Manzoni, Yoko Ono, Ad Reinhardt, and Robert Smithson – this exhibition offers viewers the opportunity to look at familiar artists in a new way and with much greater depth, both in relationship to each other and in regards to their individual practices. It opens December 12, 2014 at the Gallery’s main space, 525 West 24th Street.

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Robbert Hobbes, John Rajchan, Jonna Pousette-Dart

Non-Site: Line of Wreckage (Bayonne, New Jersey)

ROBERT SMITHSON, Non-site: Line of Wreckage (Bayonne, New Jersey), 1968, Painted aluminum, broken concrete, framed map and three photo panels. Courtesy, Milwaukee Museum of Art ©Estate of Robert Smithson/ Licensed by VAGA, NY. Photograph by Efraim Lev-er

David Bailey, Stephanie Bailey, Daniel Martinez, Lulu Loquidis-cc

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Photographs from the opening by Maira Garcia

Yasumasa Morimura: Las Meninas Renacen de Noche (Las Meninas Reborn in the Night) AT Luhring Augustine GALLERY

Martyn Thompson Studio Holiday Pop Up!