Monday, April 19, 2010

Bad Art, good art, and a movie

Liz McGrath at Patrick Painter garnishes an award for worst show viewed this week.
If you have to go and decide for yourself, go ahead, just don't blame me for your disappointment.
Really great show is up at Sam Freeman Gallery at Bergamot Station. Dustin Yellen is back with a bunch of new paintings that have to be experienced to understand and appreciate. Also worth seeing is a show at Richard Heller Gallery, Ernesto Caivano draws incongruously, but deftly. He draws you in to his tight little drawings until you are immersed in his little melancholic world. If you are still slumming around Bergamot, and you have a stomache for this sort of thing, go to the Robert Berman Gallery, showing paintings, drawings, and photographs of nudes from a wide variety of well known artists. Be ready to blush.
I saw the Banksy movie last night, and it was good, entertaining, and funny. I think a more accurate title would be "Banksy outs Mr. Brainwash as a poseur". Totally worth seeing as a catalyst to discussing the art market, and what it is, was, and has become.

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