Artforum Magazine (March 1, 2024) – The latest issue features THE PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA GO CRAZY – Thomas Hirschhorn’s Fake It, Fake It – till you Fake It., 2023; ANTHONY LEPORE; PASSAGES –  PHILL NIBLOCK (1933–2024); TOP TEN – BRUCE LABRUCE and more…

SALON STYLE

Hurvin Anderson imagines the barbershop

HURVIN ANDERSON’S “BARBERSHOP” series belongs to a long tradition of painterly fascination with the spaces of social interaction that reflect both the physical realities and ideological aspirations of society at large. Anderson’s exhibition “Salon Paintings” at England’s Hastings Contemporary, organized in collaboration with the Hepworth Wakefield, also in England, and Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway, brings together a body of work he produced between 2006 and 2023 that portrays, albeit in the loosest sense of the word, men’s hair salons. 

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens”

Petzel Gallery | East 67th Street

By Donald Kuspit

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens,” a group exhibition that featured a selection of Renaissance paintings alongside works created by present-day artists, was a type of paragone, except that the debate was not whether painting or sculpture is the superior art form, but whether these historical pieces—executed at a time when grand themes and exquisite craft, among other criteria, determined their value—are better or worse than objects made by artists now, when such antiquated metrics seem well beside the point.