Lookbook: VOLTA NY

Here’s our Lookbook from Volta NYC the 2016 Edition of the art fair. All photos courtesy of POVarts staff.

Lookbook: Armory Show

Here’s our Lookbook from the 2016 Edition of the Armory art fair. All photos courtesy of POVarts staff.

Mini-Lookbook: Independent Art Fair

Here’s our mini-Lookbook from the 2016 Edition of the Independent Art Fair in NYC. All photos courtesy of POVarts staff.

Lookbook: SPRING/BREAK Art Fair

Here’s our Lookbook from the Spring Break Fair in 2016. All photos courtesy of POVarts staff.

Lost: INTO THE WOODS

The ambitious but uneven group show INTO THE WOODS starts with a quote from the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel:

“Early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest. …”

My Rendezvous With Greg Miller

I had a chance to see Greg Miller’s “J Street” at the gallery. In the exhibition I encountered large, overcrowded canvases with depressing color combinations, paint drips extending lethargically downward, I felt as if I was in a gallery of wallpaper peeling off the wall.

I hate Eric White’s Art, by that I mean I love Eric White’s Art

What living and dating in Hollywood has done to Eric White’s Art.

I think that there’s something about living in Los Angeles, as I once have, that breaks people. It hollows them out, and fills them with images that are not their own.

Mark Benson Answers One Of Life’s Eternal Questions in Solo Show “How was your weekend?”

But is any of that in the art? Is Mark Benson in the art? Is there heart in the art? No. It’s all too cynical. There is too much about other people and their stuff, and their stories – those dead vanished people and their awesome weekends.

Zoe Leonard’s “Analogue” Encompasses History Over Time through 412 Photos at the MoMA

I had high hopes for “Analogue”, Zoe Leonard’s 10-year plus project now on view at The Museum of Modern Art. All artists of my generation, including myself, are affected by and respond differently to this overwhelming datascape we have at our disposal. Leonard’s approach is archival though not nostalgic and without a directive moral.

Jacqueline Humphries: Painting the Analog/Digital Divide

Jacqueline Humphries’ new large-scale paintings, recently on view at Greene Naftali’s new ground floor space, are an exploration of what we might call screen noise abstracted into paintings that I don’t want to stop looking at.