As if in response to my discussion with hyperallergic Hrag last night about multitasking vs. concentrated monofocus, in the NY Times this morning Holland Cotter reports that most of the painters selected for “Younger Than Jesus” are committed multitaskers. “The artists Tala Madani, born in Iran, and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, […]
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Wiser than God
If you stop in to see “Younger than Jesus,” the New Museum’s first triennial survey of new art from around the world, check out “Wiser than God,” May 27-July 27, 2009, an exhibition organized by art critic Adrian Dannatt at the BLT Gallery, located across the street. According to Dannatt, […]
Younger than Jesus: Thomas Roberts
In lieu of attending the press opening of the New Museum’s “Younger than Jesus” exhibition today, which features fifty artists under 33-years-old, I’m posting about an Irish painter who died in 1777 at 28. Whenever I see work in major museums by people under thirty, I always wonder whether their […]
