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"It's relaxing," some visitors were heard to remark of the atmosphere, which included pet dogs and coffee sold from a trestle table to the tune of a buzzing generator.
 
 
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Abstraction is becoming the Western equivalent of the most masturbatory Literati work. Whether we call it “Zombie Formalism” (Walter Robinson) or “MFA-clever“ (Jerry Saltz), we end up bending for beige. >> Read more

The world's best art selling machine continues to be the Art Basel trade fair. Over 300 galleries from around the world, 2,500 artists and 65,000 visitors, including 70 museums. >> Read more

Once again there were very few galleries from China participating in Basel. >> Read more

Wade Guyton at Serpentine Galleries, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Robert Longo at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Gilbert & George at Lévy Gorvy, Enrico David at Michael Werner Gallery, David Hammons, Cody Noland et al at White Cube Masons Yard, Jeff Elrod at Simon Lee Gallery, Sherrie Levine at David Zwirner and Yan Pei Ming at Massimo […] >> Read more

Two recent Berlin shows provide competing though equally compelling responses to the production line of abstraction currently dominant, or at least voluble, in New York. >> Read more

Berlin Art Week, combining major museum openings, art berlin contemporary (an art fair), and a panoply of individual exhibitions, talks, happenings, lunches, parties and schmoozing, could be a wonderful thing. >> Read more

Berlin Gallery Weekend is a three-day festival of gallery hopping. It is an art fair without the stuffy trade-fair halls and an art treasure hunt for anyone who loves exploring Berlin. Recommendation: buy, hire or steal a bike (all three options are possible in Berlin, even encouraged). >> Read more