Encounters With the Unknown
Shedding Bark, 2021. (Courtesy of Lisson Gallery) Even now that New York galleries are open, and have been for nearly a year after being closed from mid-March through late June in 2020, I haven’t been able to bring myself to frequent them as diligently as I used to. Yes, I go, and gladly, but I’m far more selective about what I see. I mostly walk in where I already have some hope of seeing something that might raise my spirits and skip the ones where I have no inkling of what I’m going to see. In the long run, that’s no way to practice art criticism, I know. Privileging the alrea...
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