{"id":6934,"date":"2017-10-05T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2017-10-04T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:45:21","slug":"chris-ofili-at-david-zwirner-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/chris-ofili-at-david-zwirner-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ofili at David Zwirner Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four paintings hang against chain link fencing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/exhibitions\/paradise-lost\">David Zwirner Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea, inaccessible to the public except by a narrow corridor between the fence and the wall, which has been painted with towering figures of sinuous dancers, themselves depicted behind a painted fence. The show is titled \u2018Paradise Lost\u2019 and follows Ofili\u2019s \u2018The Caged Bird\u2019s Song\u2019 at London\u2019s National Gallery, for which the artist alluded to the practice in his adopted home, Trinidad, of raising caged songbirds. Here, aggressive fencing suggests that it is not the song of the caged bird that is sweeter. (On view through Oct 21<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6935\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6935\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/chris_ofili-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Ofili, installation view of \u2018Paradise Lost\u2019 at David Zwirner Gallery\u2019s 533 West 19th Street space, Sept 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four paintings hang against chain link fencing at David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea, inaccessible to the public except by a narrow corridor between the fence and the wall, which has been painted with towering figures of sinuous dancers, themselves depicted behind a painted fence. The show is titled \u2018Paradise Lost\u2019 and follows Ofili\u2019s \u2018The Caged &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/chris-ofili-at-david-zwirner-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chris Ofili at David Zwirner 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":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,2788,6479,117,4051,100,770,13,7049,12,6250,3635,16],"class_list":["post-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-bird","tag-cage","tag-chelsea","tag-chris-ofili","tag-david-zwirner","tag-fence","tag-gallery","tag-lost","tag-new-york","tag-paradise","tag-song","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1NQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}