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The number of people likely to switch banks has jumped dramatically, as consumers dealing with household financial pressure took a harder look at the value of their banking and other financial arrangements.
How does one derive and then develop and sustain a transcendent identity in abstraction? This is the overarching narrative in Richard Shiff’s monograph on one of the most inventive American abstractionists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul, published by the artist’s gallery, Hauser and Wirth, in 2022.
Tales of Brave Ulysses, which spans across the galleries of Van Doren Waxter and Garth Greenan, highlights a significant moment of counter-modernism within the 70s and 80s. The work of the artists Al Loving, Howardena Pindell, Alan Shields, and Richard Van Buren are a weft and warp, interlaced in dialogue with each other to reveal an exchange of ideas and innovations.
By coincidence, David Novros, Al Loving, Alan Shields, and Marilyn Lerner all have work up in NYC during December. These same four artists all danced in the late sixties, sometimes together, with the experimental choreographer Ellen Klein, in performances she staged in her loft on Broadway.
What does being the center of the art world do to a neighborhood? Just look at Soho.