While in New York City from Thursday to Saturday, I commented on the art I saw via Facebook status updates. Remembering everything until I was able to craft a full-blown blog post didn't seem likely so I opted to do real-time, quick-hit posts on Facebook. My hope was that some folks would respond to my posts and the result would be having virtual companions beside me while I trekked across Manhattan looking at art by myself. I think the outcome was a success as many passionate discussions were ignited.
I wanted to copy the Facebook status updates here to serve as my "official review" of my NYC art trip. Here they are:
Thursday, February 26
J.T. is out in Chelsea, a bit too early though. 10:41am
J.T. Yuskavage @ Zwirner - not very good. 11:07am
J.T. is Marioni vs. Marden.. 11:14am
J.T. is lots if red dots at Jonathan levine. Small work though. Colorful and strange. 11:19am
J.T. galleries seem a liitle worn down. Cost saving? 11:33am
J.T. Bitforms does it again. NeatO work! 11:40am
J.T. is Jack Shainman is fail and le sigh. 11:48am
J.T. is gagosian on 21 closed till march 26. Weird. 11:54am
J.T. is Hirshhorn at Gladstone. WTF? 12:03pm
J.T. wanted so much more from Stingel at Paula Cooper. 12:07pm
J.T. is irwin at Pace better than expected but still not so hot. 12:15pm
J.T. is it just me or does Sonnabend always blow? 12:34pm
J.T. is now we're talking. Small Ellsworth Kelly drawing show at Matthew Marks. 12:38pm
J.T. is pavel zoubok gallery does what it does very well. 12:48pm
J.T. is refueled with a Chelsea grilled ham and cheese panini. 1:09pm
J.T. Larry Poons sticks out like a sore thumb in Chelsea. That's a good thing. 1:27pm
J.T. is Brendan Cass at Stellan Holm Gallery vs Poons.. 1:49pm
J.T. KMoCA will be making another acquisition on this trip. 3:26pm
J.T. is Mark Ruwedel at Yossi Milo is best photo show thus far. 3:27pm
J.T. is shocked by how much he liked juan genoves at marlborough. 3:51pm
J.T. must be getting tired, liked Erik Parker at Paul Kasmin. 4:29pm
J.T. is done with Chelsea. Waiting to meet Chris Rywalt for a studio visit. 5:19pm
J.T. thinks Chelsea wasn't so hot today but lots of new shows opening now. 5:28pm
Friday, February 27
J.T. is Friday begins with rough start at Dunkin Donuts. Moms, met, Whitney on tap for today. 10:09am
J.T. is at moma, cubism still sucks. 10:45am
J.T. is Matisse rocks, Duchamp blows. 10:48am
J.T. is thank you Malevich. 10:50am
J.T. is mondrian room is nice surprise. 10:52am
J.T. is we clearly took a step backward with Johns and Rauschenburg. 11:00am
J.T. is awesome... I miss Rist and instead get Kippenberger. Ugh.. 11:22am
J.T. Thinks the great thing about Torres' free prints is watching people fumble all over the place trying to roll them up. 11:29am
J.T. wonders if conceptualism might be too easy. Not stating fact or opinion, just wondering. 12:10pm
J.T. is at the Met. 12:14pm
J.T. Bonnard interiors is a nice show but nasty install. He deserves better. 12:35pm
J.T. Hates to admit that kehinde wiley's "the veiled Christ" is pretty nice. It's a study so there's time to screw it up. 12:40pm
J.T. iNevermind about Bonnard install, the Met is pretty beat up all over. 12:45pm
J.T. is Raqib Shaw solo- contemporary take painting, not bad at all. 12:48pm
J.T. is hirsts shark need Viagra. 12:55pm
J.T. is young Picasso could sure paint. 12:59pm
J.T. is lots of van gogh up now. Excellent! 1:01pm
J.T. is done with Met, next is Whitney. 1:24pm
J.T. stopped by gagosian Madison ave, soth and Warhol, yawn. 1:45pm
J.T. is Elad Lassry videos - gag me with a jackhammer. 2:19pm
J.T. thinks the Whitney was worth every penny (I.e. $0). 2:27pm
J.T. Is at the new museum. 3:16pm
J.T. Dear New Museum, I want my money back! 3:22pm
J.T. Just went to Jen bekman's, alas no Jen to be found. 3:32pm
J.T. Dennis at dckt just hooked me up with 411 on LES. 3:48pm
J.T. is feature has nice little group show & they know it based on the prices! 4:20pm
J.T. surrenders. Last stop at Canada a success. Next is steak, broadway, bed. 4:51pm
Saturday, February 28
J.T. is fueling up and then back to Chelsea. 11:40am
J.T. really neat show at Derek Eller. 12:32pm
J.T. just finished first Chelsea acquisition! 1:56pm
J.T. is florian maier-aichen @ 303 gallery nice show. 3:03pm
J.T. is Elizabeth dee equals always syrange. 3:07pm
J.T. Favorite show - Colin Brown's "The Sunless Sea" @ Fischbach Gallery. 4:07pm
That wraps up the Facebook NYC gallery crawl. It was a fun experiment and I hope to do it again sometime soon.
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