Marden, Serra, Reinhardt

Kyle Staver at Tibor de Nagy, Shirley Jaffe

Shirley Jaffe

Come together Sandy, Brooklyn Rail

Sunset Park.
Woodstock of the Art World.

To benefit Sandy Victims.

Santa Fe Railyard Galleries Delap, Celaya, Graham

Tony Delap here at Charlotte Jackson's Gallery was John McCracken's teacher.

Looking at earlier work one can see the connection.

John always talked very well of Delap and I think if John had lived longer he might have said something about these. I thought they looked good.

John said the plank was a link from painting to sculpture. I see this in Delap also.

Celayas work here seems souvenoirs from his show at Site Santa Fe. I like Celaya, especially the paintings. Here he stretches himself thin. The romantic wispy never reaches surface or some resolution. Stays wisping around, which seems all effect, which the crowd likes. A popular show which is in a good direction for Site.

Allan Graham at David Richard Gallery. These are interesting to see in light of Chris Wool's Guggenheim show coming up. 

They are rough in their execution, but a certain lead smear takes away from a total bang, which lingers into the poetry and the individual lurking beneath.

These have a connection to poetry and I liked the installation of his wife Gloria Graham.

John Yau

Mei Mei Berssenbrugge

Sandy Show in Sunset Park Comes Together Opens Oct 20

John McCracken David Zwirner

It would be hard for a Museum to better this show of John's.

I had been totally miffed by the Jeff Koons sculpture lined up for sale, last spring. I wondered if Zwirner would recover.

This show seems a return to sanity. It is a very carefully considered thematic show. Seven different  rooms have perspectives I had not seen as well in the past.

Upstairs the small sculpture made a room which reminded me of the "net of gems" idea in Mythology.

On a sketchbook drawing displayed John describes colors to be used as as "Jewel like".

Each room has some idea, which to me is the antidote to the money question.

 John has been gone since the spring of 2001.