Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Recent Soundsuits, Nick Cave’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. A diverse selection of the highly imaginative, mixed-media, wearable sculptures, Soundsuits, for which Cave has become well-known, are on view starting January 8th. A row of suits of woven hair in vibrant colors, from fluorescent [...]

Winter Landscape
Dec 19-Jan 31
ASS Gallery
45 Canal St
Huang Xi interprets Caspar Friedrich’s Winter Landscape With Church (1811), by transforming a storefront window to replicate blizzard conditions. The installation is visible 24 hours a day through a peep hole, and at night the light turns pink, rendering neighboring Chinatown a festive red-light district.
Postcards from the Edge, A [...]

NOVEMBER 11th, 2008
Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall: Industry Calling
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st 6 - 9pm
RSVP@MINTANDSERF.COM
Andy Warhol appropriated the everyday pop image into a work of art, added a new layer of meaning to the familiar, and conceded. Warhol and others of the Pop Art movement exposed our subconscious obsession with superficial surfaces. Slick [...]

A few months ago, after we opened the Yo Peace! show on the 8th floor, I got a terse note from Peter Intermaggio.
I don’t remember his exact words - but in his polite and articulate way he said he thought we’d gone too far. That the “political” nature of the art was offensive. [...]