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DANCE WITH ME 💃🏻🕺🏾A group #exhibition curated by @kylestaver, NA ▪️ Opening Sat, May 11, 2019 at @zurcher_gallery
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It’s a Bus! 🚌 Did you get a chance to see #RedGrooms, NA monumental sculpture at @friezeartfair New York? 🙌🏼
It was a familiar sight: Busy #NewYorkers lining up to board an #MTA bus. You just usually don’t see it inside the big white tent at #FriezeNewYork. The life-size #sculpture, aptly titled The Bus (1995), was presented by London’s @marlboroughcontemporary Gallery in the fair’s Spotlight section, dedicated to solo presentations of work by overlooked figures. 👥 The sculpted straphangers, some reading #books or #newspapers, others dozing off or chatting with one another, aren’t #portraits. They were inspired by all the #weird and wonderful #people you meet in New York. ✨🔥
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Plan your weekend visit to Randall’s Island!👟👟 This Sunday (May 5th) in the Matches Fashion Lounge at 12:30PM, @friezeartfair New York will present a conversation between William T. Williams, NA and Courtney J. Martin, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, @diaartfoundation. "Transcending the Social – 1970 and Today" considers the role of #abstraction and #formalism in an age of social awareness. Following the conversation, #WilliamTWilliams will be visiting Booth D10. @michaelrosenfeldgallery ▪️🔳◽️
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OTHER WORLDS: Featuring @glenngoldberg, NA: Opening tomorrow, May 3, 5-9 pm Sat/Sun 12-9 pm 🌎♥️

We are continuing to celebrate this entire week the life and legacy of #janewilson, NA, who would have been 95 years old. Happy Birthday! 🎂🎈Artwork: Jane Wilson, NA “Stop Light” (1966), #oiloncanvas, 44 x 50 inches 🚦🖼
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@donvoisine, NA: Exhibition of new paintings | Opening Friday, May 3, 2019, 6 to 8 pm @mckenzie_fine_art 🔹
🔗 mckenziefineart.com/exhibVoisine2019exhb.html 🔹 Image 👆🏼 “The Conversation,” 2019 oil and acrylic on wood panel 32 x 32 in.
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#abstractart #abstractpainting #geometricabstraction #lowereastsidegalleries #abstraction #reductiveart #geometricart #contemporaryart #nycart #artnews #onview #painting #downtownart

Opening May 7th in Venice, @helenfrankenthalerfoundation “PITTURA/PANORAMA Paintings by #HelenFrankenthaler, NA, 1952–1992” features fourteen paintings covering a 40-year span of the artist’s career. This #exhibition will reveal connections between works of different periods and the development of both continuity and continuing change. It is the first presentation of Frankenthaler’s work in #Venice since its appearance at the 33rd #VeniceBiennale in 1966. 🔹🔻🔸
Image 👆🏼Helen Frankenthaler, “Italian Beach,” 1960, oil on sized, primed linen, 67 1/8 x 82 1/4 (170.5 x 208.9 cm) © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Rob McKeever, courtesy @gagosian
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Liz Diller, NA, talks about her wearable luggage for @prada 👗✖️ #Architect, founding partner of @diller_scofidio_renfro (DS+R), professor at @princeton, designer of #architecture made out of clouds and honeycomb concrete panels, recent opera producer, all-round #MVP of the international architectural scene, and recent #fashiondesigner for #Prada, is trying to get her ‘Yoke’ to work.
The ‘Yoke’ – as she and Prada are calling one of two pieces DS+R recently prototyped for the fashion company – is a deceptively simple piece: a clutch-shaped bag (Purse? Piece of luggage? 👜 The lack of #clarity is sort of the point) that can be opened up, its magnetised sections pulled apart to expand the interior space, and placed on the shoulders. It’s like a #clutchbackpack, or a stole with pockets, or a wallet that happens to stretch across the neck. 🖤
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