Margaret Lee at Jack Hanley (Installation View), via Art Observed

Currently on view, Closer to right than wrong/ Closer to wrong than right is Margaret Lee’s second solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery. For the exhibition, Lee—co-founder of the Lower East Side gallery 47 Canal, an arbiter of art-world cool—has assembled a showroom of sorts, featuring an array of furniture-like pieces festooned with a uniform black and white Dalmatian print. While Lee’s previous work frequently dealt in a brash take on domestic objects, such as eggplant or cucumber-shaped telephones, the tone of the current exhibition is comparatively subdued. A tongue-in-cheek minimalism prevails, with polka dots turning the installation’s assorted objects—a chair, a lamp, a side table, and even a painting on the wall—into the sort of kitsch that undermines what could otherwise be mistaken as a serious design sensibility.

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Joseph Beuys poster via Jack Hanley Gallery

Jack Hanley Gallery in New York is exhibiting, “Joseph Beuys: Plakate: Signed Posters 1969-87” through August 31. Joseph Beuys, the infamous postwar German artist (1921 – 1986) made his first visit to the United States in 1974 and was known for his performances, sculptures, prints, posters, and drawings. Jack Hanley Gallery is showing 33 signed posters from the height of Beauys’s career. This collection gives viewers a glimpse of the many faces of Beauys’s career.

Now Viewing | Joseph Beuys [NYTimes TMagazine: The Moment]
Joseph Beuys: Plakate: Signed Posters 1969-87 [Jack Hanley Gallery]

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