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Like many start-ups, Taxter and Spengemann began by carving up a living space – in their case a groundﬂoor apartment on the 500-block of West 22nd Street who knew there was such a thing? – to show their artists’ wares, but soon moved to 504 West 22nd, one of the few remaining townhouses this far west, and one that has seen many different galleries occupy its cosy ﬂoors. To supplement their programme of emerging talents, the duo commission equally-emerging critics and curators to pen essays on the exhibitions available on their website , an increasingly ubiquitous practice which hints at the broad sense that what the artworld is lacking, perhaps, is discourse. On view during the Armory: Wayne Atkins and Corin Hewitt. www.taxterandspengemann.com Lower East Side Miguel Abreu Miguel Abreu’s new gallery stands as possibly the last or is it the ﬁrst? redoubt of high intellectualism to enter the art marketplace. Opening just a year ago, the gallery’s ﬁrst show brought together two ﬁlms by duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet with a suite of paintings by Blake Rayne. This heady concoction was followed up with a small survey of drawings by the ever subversive and yet clinically academic Hans Bellmer. The tone was set. Abreu’s is a gallery of ideas whose very entrance into the game of commerce could be regarded as a critical intervention itself Abreu was a founder of Thread Waxing Space, a SoHo-based non-proﬁt arts space which closed its doors in 2001 after nearly a decade of operation . It is natural for a gallery like this to take up residence on the Lower East Side, where the hipster aesthetic meets an urban playground awash in cultural history. If reading Bataille in Chelsea would get you labelled as pretentious, on Orchard Street it’s liable to spark a stand-off as to who’s read more of it in the original French. Let’s hope Abreu’s intervention is a successful – i.e., proﬁtable – one; it will prove that the increasing number of new galleries breeds necessary difference. On view during the Armory: Form as Memory, a group affair featuring Hans Bellmer, Liz Deschenes, Sam Lewitt, Scott Lyall, Eileen Quinlan, Raha Raissnia, Jimmy Raskin and Blake Rayne. www.miguelabreugallery.com SoHo Guild & Greyshkul SoHo seems as unlikely a place to ﬁnd new, energetic young galleries as Madison Avenue. But to the ranks of notable neighbourhood holdouts such as Deitch Projects and Spencer Brownstone came Guild & Greyshkul in 2003, the labour of artists Johannes and Sara VanDerBeek and Anya Kielar. Over the past three years they have built a thriving operation out of showing work by their colleagues while the VanDerBeeks have found success elsewhere: Sara at D’Amelio Terras, Johannes at Zach Feuer . Notable among the gallery’s artists are Ernesto Caivano and Devin Leonardi, the former for exacting, organic-inspired drawings and watercolours, the latter for grey-scaled acrylic on paper paintings with subject matter apparently drawn from vintage photographs. On view during the Armory opening 23 February : Anna Conway’s haunting, cinematic paintings. www.guildgreyshkul.com V&A Miguel Abreu Chinatown V&A Guild & Greyshkul Though there is much talk about the number of galleries that have moved or opened in Manhattan’s Chinatown of late, only a few can really lay claim to such status: Canada is one; Reena Spauling’s recent occupancy of a ﬂoor above a Chinese noodle house on East Broadway secures it as another; but V&A, surrounded by a Chinese acupuncturist, a manicurist, a driving school, a translator and a social club/casino on the second ﬂoor of a small commercial building, which itself opens onto one of the more bustling, ﬁsh-market-saturated sections of Mott Street, outdoes the rest. The ‘V’ stands for Victoria Donner, the ‘A’ for Anne Maffei. The two met at an art fair in 2003 and began to curate shows and host evenings at Maffei’s loft in SoHo. By 2005, the operation had extended to thoughts of a gallery and a search for space, which the two found just last year. Beginning with Scott Taylor and Ryan Hixenbaugh, V&A has quickly expanded its operation to include Selma Haﬁzovic, Brent Ridge and Megan Pﬂug. On view during the Armory: Megan Pﬂug. www.vandanyc.com ARTREVIEW 172 Warning : Unknown : The session id contains invalid characters, valid characters are only a-z, A-Z and 0-9 in Unknown on line 0 Warning : Unknown : Failed to write session data files . Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct /var/lib/php/session in Unknown on line 0 http://www.taxterandspengemann.com http://www.miguelabreugallery.com http://www.guildgreyshkul.com http://www.vandanyc.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Art Review - March Issue

Manifesto
Dispatches
Consumed
Tales from the City
David Lynch
Marcel Dzama
Future Greats
Art Pilgrimage: Moscow
Mixed Media: Moving Images
Mixed Media: Photography
Mixed Media: Digital
Reviews
Book Reviews
On the Town
On the Record

Art Review - March Issue

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