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Heat Wave | Friedman Benda
Friedman Benda’s summer exhibition, Heat Wave is correct context for the many 90+ degree days NYC now gets mid year. This group show brings together a familiar roster of FB designers and artists presenting work not exhibited in Manhattan before. The collection thankfully steers clear of being a room full of all melty blobjects. Ini…
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Art is the Process | Morton St. Partners
Beginning in late spring, the gallery space of Morton Street Partners has been operating as a dissection lab for a 1987 Porsche 911. Art is the Process is the exhibition/demonstration of Queens, NY-based artist Greg Anagnostopoulos who has been disassembling and reassembling the Porsche that will become a feature in a Daniel Arsham show in…
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Timelapse | Sarah Sze
My roster of favorite artists includes Sarah Sze somewhere near the top. The first piece of hers I remember seeing was Strange Attractor installed for the 2000 Whitney Biennial in a window of the Breuer building. Since then I’ve tried to visit as many of her installations as I could, because that’s the only way…
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2023 Greenwich Concours de Sport
The annual Greenwich Concours in Connecticut typically spans two weekend days in early June. Sunday is the main concours event with Saturday being more of a mishmash of programming including Radwood and manufacturer ride and drives. Since Hagerty got involved in staging the show, I feel like they’ve been trying hard to attract a younger…
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Exhibitions & Showrooms | NYCxDesign 2023
Satellite shows and exhibitions overall were smaller for NYCxDesign 2023. Speaking with some independent show organizers, their responses echoed a similar issue. Just finding a space in NYC to stage is really hard. The real estate industry and landlords seem quite proud of all the empty storefronts they’ve been able to create and maintain across…
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ICFF+WantedDesign | NYCxDesign 2023
The annual headline event of NYCxDesign is the combined International Contemporary Furniture Fair(ICFF) and WantedDesign Manhattan. Both shows are still in recovery and rebuilding mode following the pandemic, with several new components added in 2023 to help fill out the program. Following the demise of the Stationary Show which used to run concurrently at Javits…