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If you’ve ever spent any time in LA or the surrounding area, few experiences that you can have here in NYC will imbue you with a sense of sweet nostalgia for the Southland quite like viewing this series of new paintings and photographs by artist Glen Rubsamen, which he calls Polygala.
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The coolest thing about living close to the NYC contemporary art scene is that you just never know what kind of unique event will pop up on your agenda. Last evening, literary journal The American Reader and the Robert Miller Gallery hosted a presentation of Robert Coover’s short story The Goldilocks Variations, which was read between musical selections from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It was as interesting as you can imagine.
Continue reading Yayoi Kusama’s Painted Player Piano and Bench, and Other Variations
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Japanese sculptress and wildly inventive contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama is currently exhibiting a variation on her large chrome balls sculpture installation known as Narcissus Garden over at Robert Miller Gallery on West 24th Street in Manhattan.
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Untitled [Altarpiece], 1970 By Robert Mapplethorpe (Photo By Geoffrey Dicker)
Art lover that I am, I’ll be the first one to admit that I didn’t really gain full appreciation for the highly homoerotic photography of the late Robert Mapplethorpe until after he passed away from AIDS related complications in 1989. Mapplethorpe, as a visual artist, was so far ahead of his time that it required some acclimation to his style for me to fully grasp what a groundbreaker he was, and the degree of creative talent he possessed. Through Saturday October 30th, the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea has a wonderful exhibit of selected works by Mapplethorpe that can serve as a broad introduction to his work, as well as being a reminder to fans of his legacy, which I believe has yet to achieve critical mass. Continue reading Selected Works By Robert Mapplethorpe at the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea