Maddie Phinney




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Friday, July 24th, 2015

Curatorial Lyricism: “Perfect Likeness” at the Hammer

The Hammer’s current photography exhibition looks at developments in portraiture in the past 40 years.

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Show and Tell: John Currin at Gagosian Beverly Hills

The realist painter eschews explicit sex in a new solo show, but refers backwards to earlier tropes of subordination.

Friday, October 31st, 2014

Give You So Much More: Jim Hodges at the Hammer Museum

A traveling retrospective of the artist’s work renders the personal political and beautiful.

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Heroes of Superfuzz: Mark Newport’s Knitted Suits

The artist’s knitted full-body suits queer the superhero mythos and the gendered divisions between arts and craft.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2014

Multiple Layers of Significance: Mike Kelley at LA MoCA

The final stage of a two year retrospective is a prodigious homecoming.

David Hammons, Spade (Power to the Spade),1969, Body print, pigment, and mixed media on paper, 53 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches. Collection of Jack and Connie Tilton, New York. On view at Grey Art Gallery, NYU.
Friday, October 25th, 2013

Radical Bodies at Grey Art Gallery

A two-part exhibition tells the story of black performance art in the 20th century

Frank Moore, Her Closet, 1990. Oil and pins on canvas mounted on wood, in artist’s frame (painted wood), 31 x 30 inches. Private collection, New York. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Friday, November 23rd, 2012

Battle Lines: Frank Moore’s Toxic Beauty

on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery through December 8