{"id":1985,"date":"2013-02-16T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2013-02-16T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T14:30:45","slug":"david-shrigley-at-anton-kern-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/16\/david-shrigley-at-anton-kern-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"David Shrigley at  Anton Kern Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London-based Guardian art critic Adrian Searle calls British artist David Shrigley&rsquo;s artwork &lsquo;appalling, abysmal, and painfully dire,&rsquo; but likes it so much he has it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonkerngallery.com\/system\/press_pdfs\/131\/original\/2012-01-30_TheGuardian_Shrigley.pdf?1345835051\" title=\"tattooed on his belly\" target=\"_blank\">tattooed on his belly<\/a>. Shrigley&rsquo;s off-beat sense of humor encourages such contradictory impulses, as does this cat pairing, which seems aimed at exploiting any viewer&rsquo;s insecurities with charming hokeyness. (At Chelsea&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonkerngallery.com\" title=\"Anton Kern Gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Kern Gallery<\/a> through Feb 16).<\/p>\n<p><em>David Shrigley, &lsquo;Cat (It&rsquo;s OK, It&rsquo;s not OK), acrylic on canvas stuffed with foam, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/2637548\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/2637548\/original.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/3b1e957d-84c7-49fd-8418-fadba8dc5d4e?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London-based Guardian art critic Adrian Searle calls British artist David Shrigley&rsquo;s artwork &lsquo;appalling, abysmal, and painfully dire,&rsquo; but likes it so much he has it tattooed on his belly. Shrigley&rsquo;s off-beat sense of humor encourages such contradictory impulses, as does this cat pairing, which seems aimed at exploiting any viewer&rsquo;s insecurities with charming hokeyness. (At &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/16\/david-shrigley-at-anton-kern-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Shrigley at  Anton Kern Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[859,857,8,18,539,860,9,15,858,14,13,12,17,10,16,11],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-adrian-searle","tag-anton-kern","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-british-art","tag-british-artist","tag-contemporary","tag-critic","tag-david-shrigley","tag-exhibition","tag-gallery","tag-new-york","tag-photography","tag-sculpture","tag-tour","tag-visual-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-w1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}