This holiday season isn't over yet! While many rip down every last shred of holiday cheer as soon as those New Year's hangovers wear off, two (and a half) institutions are celebrating for just a bit longer.
Perhaps you've seen them in that old photograph: megaphones sticking every which way out of boxes cluttering a small room, two men standing at opposite ends of the claustromanic space, each of them operating one of those lever-driven, horn-endowed, indecipherable objects.
Urs Fischer is the big deal of the moment. He is on everyone's lips and in everyone's gallery, and now he has taken over three floors of the New Museum in his own retrospective: Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty. The New Museum has received a lot of criticism for its design, which is set up as galleries stacked on top of each other, and this show certainly comes across as a large scale gallery show as opposed to a retrospective since it's a
I think that William Pope L. is one of the most exciting artists working today. I am primarily interested in his performances, but generally I like everything he does. I've never seen him reenvision the work of another artist, however, so it was exciting to stumble upon this piece currently up at Hauser & Wirth. Pope L.