Patterns installation view, Luhring Augustine Chelsea, New York
Pictured from left: Loretta Pettway Bennett, Philip Taaffe, Tauba Auerbach (floor), Eric N. Mack, Frank Stella
To get in on the WNYC centennial action, we here at All Of It are devoting time every month to the 100 pieces of art you should see in New York City. A completely unscientific but from-the-heart segment. We live in a city where you can take the train to see extraordinary works or maybe enjoy the art in the subways or a park or a building. Art is everywhere around you in New York. Each month, we're going to talk to an expert in the field who will give us their 10 picks. My first guest is Will Heinrich, art critic and journalist from The New York Times.
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Will Heinrich: New York City has, I think, probably the highest concentration of commercial art galleries in the world. The thing about them is they obviously exist to sell art, but they send PDF previews to their collectors. They make private appointments. They don't need to be open to the public really to sell art. They're open to the public because they want to exhibit art. They want people to come look at it.
That's the whole point of a gallery is for people to come in off the street and look at the art. I picked a particular gallery show that's up right now that I think is really nice. It's called Patterns at Luhring Augustine Gallery on 24th Street. It's a group show of mostly abstract, colorful kind of art that's both pleasurable and substantial, which is hard to do. It includes a couple of Gee's Bend quilts and a giant Frank Stella and then some other contemporary paintings and things.
Listen to the full interview at wnyc.org
