{"id":601,"date":"2008-11-22T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2008-12-08T00:45:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:45:53","slug":"hottest-show-anne-chu-barnaby-furnas-cindy-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/hottest-show-anne-chu-barnaby-furnas-cindy-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottest Show: Anne Chu, Barnaby Furnas, Cindy Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nevermind the global financial turmoil (finally starting to be reflected in the art market), a bevy of new Chelsea gallery shows are making November and December good months for gallery goers.\u00a0 <\/span>At 303 Gallery<\/a>, Anne Chu – who New York Times critic Roberta Smith called \u201cone of the best figurative sculptors around\u201d – has toned down the aggressive style that once led her to make Tang Dynasty style ladies with chainsaw and wood, but the results of her more conceptual approach are still a must-see. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, splash and burn painter Barnaby Furnas opens his fourth solo show at Marianne Boesky Gallery<\/a> with distressed canvases loaded with poured and splattered paint.\u00a0 <\/span>His long-running portrait series of Civil War abolitionist John Brown is starting to wear thin and the outraged political caricatures from his last show are unfortunately no where to be seen.\u00a0 <\/span>But abstracted images of spot lit rock concerts and \u2018black flood\u2019 paintings are provocatively discordant mixtures of pleasure and disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the same block, don\u2019t miss Cindy Sherman\u2019s gargantuan new photos of herself in the guise of various aging society matrons at Metro Pictures<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span>Glitzed up and surrounded by markers of status, these ladies will no doubt look mighty familiar to many of the art community\u2019s power lunching gallery hoppers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nevermind the global financial turmoil (finally starting to be reflected in the art market), a bevy of new Chelsea gallery shows are making November and December good months for gallery goers.\u00a0 At 303 Gallery, Anne Chu – who New York Times critic Roberta Smith called \u201cone of the best figurative sculptors around\u201d – has toned … <\/p>\n

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