Gagosian
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Crash: Homage to JG Ballard
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I went to see the new show at London’s Gagosian Gallery, Crash: An Homage to JG Ballard. It assembles work from mostly well-known artists with some connection to the recently-deceased Ballard or his themes. So there are the obligatory car crashes from Warhol, referencing the eponynmous Crash, probably Ballard’s best-known novel. Indeed, works about cars…
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Serra’s steel
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Despite 100 years of abstract, conceptual, modernist art, it is surprising that Richard Serra’s sculpture works as miraculously well as it does. I went to see the (now-closed, alas) exhibition of his latest sculpture at London’s outpost of the Gagosian Gallery. For the last few decades, Serra has been taking great sheets of Cor-ten steel…
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