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If you’re familiar with the work of Kenneth Price (1935 – 2012), you already know that he had a singular talent for transforming clay into something far stranger — and far more evocative — than traditional ceramics ever aspired to be. His 1963 sculpture S. L. Green captures Price at a pivotal moment in his early career, when he was beginning to push the medium into new, almost rebellious territory. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Kenneth Price, S.L. Green
When I was a child, our family owned an object which I believed to be the most beautiful thing on the planet: a real Red Rose, preserved in wax and displayed inside a water-filled, glass globe atop a black plastic plinth. It captivated me.
Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Sparkly Rose in a Water Globe
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It’s been a decade since the art of Jeff Koons – one of the contemporary art world’s wealthiest, most celebrated and undeniably wildly polarizing figures – has been the focus of a solo exhibit here in Manhattan. This week, he has two: a series of new works at David Zwirner and a retrospective (opening this evening) at the Gagosian Gallery. Continue reading Gazing Ball By Jeff Koons at David Zwirner