Fourth Class, Trip to Chelsea, 9/20/12

2nd Field Trip to Chelsea.  Galleries visited:
West 24th Street:
Mike Weiss at 520:  Marc Seguin
Gagosian:  Richard Phillips, Anselm Kiefer  Richard Phillips interview NYTimes
Lyons Weir at 542:  Fahamu Pecou Review 2010, ART IN AMERICA
Mary Boone at 541:  Ernst Wilhelm Nay NY ART BEAT review

West 22nd Street:
Sikkema Jenkins at 530: Leonardo Drew
Matthew Marks at 522:  Tony Smith
Newman Popiashvili at 504 (lower level):  Javier Arce
From THE NEW YORKER:
On April 26, 1937, German bombers destroyed the Basque village of Guernica, killing thousands of people, a horror immortalized by Picasso in what may be the most famous political work of modern times. Arce, a Spaniard making his New York solo début, grapples with the devolution of that masterpiece into a symbol in a group of engravings, a mural, and a sculpture, which document its fraught history. (The show takes its title, “Kill All Lies,” from the phrase that Tony Shafrazi spray-painted on the canvas, at moma in 1974.) The only work in which Arce offers a glimpse of the image itself is a large drawing—a one-to-one scale reproduction—which lies in a crumpled mess on the floor, reinforcing the idea that the painting’s travails now overshadow the event it was conceived to commemorate. Through Oct. 6.