Art

I don’t want to write only about war. Here are some recent art exhibits I’ve seen, plus a future recommendation. Some of the shows have already closed.

• Jeff Burton at Casey Kaplan: Trust me it was great. Casey Kaplan has a lousy website without images. There was a good article on it in HX of all places — but I can’t find it online. The whole photo shoot consisted of him spending 10 minutes with a go-go boy, Kevin, in a gay strip club in New Orleans. Kevin is wearing a red velveteen thong, white socks, and Bass Weejuns.
  
• Larry Mantello – “Box Rap” at Henry Urbach — an installation of kitsch, patriotic and otherwise
  
• Type A at Sara Meltzer
  
• Group show at John Connelly, including Wade Guyton — no web site!
  
• Öyvind Fahlström at Feigen — brillliant Scandinavian/Brazilian conceptualist whose work seems decades ahead of its time
  
• Doug Wada at Elizabeth Dee — semi-photo-realistic paintings, especially for the fans and air conditioners</a>
  
• Holly Coulis at LFL Gallery — This gallery is a consistent favorite, especially for work of interesting young painters</p>

The future recommendation is Jules de Balincourt, opening at LFL in May. When we were there on Saturday to decide on buying a couple of works, having seen the work when visiting to see the Holly Coulis exhibit, the back was buzzing with people looking at his work. While we were there a collector/critic and a good artist stopped by to check out his work.