Current gallery shows in Chelsea - October 2014

The fall art season is in full swing in New York City.  Yesterday I tried to hit some of the hot shows currently on view in Chelsea.

Among the "must-see" shows are Jenny Holzer's Dust Paintings at Cheim +Read.  These are a series of paintings based on governments documents in 2004, after the invasions into Iraq by the Americans and the Brits - in response to America's War on Terror.  Some of the paintings are color field paintings with minimal use of language -- in the style of Ad Reinhardt.

I'd also recommend the beautiful Miracle paintings by Dan Colen at Gagosian on West 24th Street, concurrent with his show that has been up at the Brant Foundation  in Greenwich, Connecticut.  The paintings at Gagosian are only up through the 18th of October.  They are etherial paintings based on Disney stills from Fantasia.

 Matthew Ritchie's show Ten Possible Links at Andrea Rosen Gallery is another one not to be missed.  The show is a combination of four distinct projects spanning painting, wall drawings, sculpture, sound and moving image.

Lastly, I loved the simple white on linen paintings by Norwegian artist Frederik Vaerslev in the exhibition titled A Shore Thing at Andrew Kreps Gallery.  To produce the white lines he uses the same technique used to make boundary lines on football and soccer fields as well as those to mark street lines.

And don't miss the Jeff Koons Retrospective at the Whitney Museum before it closes on October 19th.

kpeArts Goes to Berlin

kpeArts finally went global and teamed up with Adeline Talbot of Studio Traveler.  We had an amazing six days in the capital of cool, Berlin, Germany during the week of the abc art fair.  There was lots of art and architecture to be seen.  We certainly didn't starve hitting many of Berlin's culinary hot spots.  And we loved staying at one of Berlin's new boutique hotels Das Stue, which backed up to the Tiergarten and the Berlin Zoo.  Here are some photos from our trip:

 

Some of the highlights of our visit included the summer palace of Frederick the Great ~ Sans Souci in Potsdam, the Einstein Tor, Hamburger Bahnhof, Sammlung Boros, Sammlung Hoffmann, the Neue National Galerie, the Jewish Museum, the abc art fair, Galerie NEU, neugerreimschneider, Galerie Michael Fuchs, Capitain-Petzel Galerie and the studios of Oystein Aasan and Alicja Kwade.

           

Our favorite restaurants included Pauly Saal, Katz Orange, Lokal, the Soho House Berlin, borchardt's and tea at the Adlon Hotel.  And we can't forget the delicious breakfast, snacks and house cocktails at Das Stue.

 

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