(courtesy: Park Avenue Armory)
Christian Boltanski’s No Man’s Land is a mixed bag. Something more could have been said and accomplished given the space and resources allotted, albeit there are some powerful moments.
Walking into the armory is always a welcome visceral charge. This feeling carried over as I approached Boltanski’s wall of rusted biscuit tins. If [...]

If you didn’t make it to Mike Nelson’s show at 303 Gallery before it closed this past Saturday, don’t sweat it. Perhaps you recall this British artist’s masterpiece, A Psychic Vacuum, from the fall of 2007 at the old Essex Street Market. A scaled down version of this, shoved into a gallery, does not work. [...]

Sterling Ruby: 2Traps
Pace Wildenstein
545 West 22nd
February 5th – March 20th
Trap number one, I fell into shortly after exiting the gallery. Do not read the press release. At the very least, wait 24 hours. The Press Release (3-stapled pages) could easily be the intro of a yellow and black book titled: Sterling Ruby for Dummies. Perhaps this [...]