Alex Da Corte, Die Hexe (Installation View), via Art Observed
For the past month and a half, the 77th Street location of Luxembourg and Dayan’s townhouse location has served as a bizarre cross between retro kitsch and haunted house, part of artist Alex Da Corte’s solo exhibition at the space. (more…)
Artist Damien Hirst at Blain Southern Gallery. All photos by Caroline Claisse for Art Observed.
As Frieze London prepares to open its doors to the press and VIPs tomorrow morning in Regent’s Park, gallerists around the city are aiming to pull out all the stops in attracting collectors during the week’s events. Such seemed to be the case with Blain|Southern‘s Candy, a blockbuster exhibition of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Damien Hirst focusing on the artists’ shared material and aesthetic interests in the sugary snack as artistic medium, which opened last night.
Richard Prince, Anyone Can Find Me (1990), courtesy Skarstedt Gallery
Skarstedt Gallery’s uptown exhibition space in Manhattan recently exhibited a series of multi-media works by American painter and photographer Richard Prince. Blending hand-drawn landscape and mass media imagery, his “White Paintings” create an complex interplay between image and language. (more…)
