""As I stood and looked at it on a drizzly gray day," John Yau writes of looking at a radiant painting by Edward Zutrau, "I forgot that it was raining." That's what art can do - stop you in your tracks, make you forget absolutely everything save for that essential encounter between you and the work."
"If any living artist needs a bit of self-reflection, it might be Jeff Koons. Too bad there's an utter lack of it in these mirrored sculptures, John Yau writes, before going on to compare them to Trump's gaudy new 90,000-foot ballroom. Oof."
""It presents an opportunity to examine what happens when the African diaspora defines itself and prioritizes its cultural habitus as a way of existing in the world.""
""One can see where Zutrau added more paint to his brush and continued drawing the line, which slowly encircles the painting's surface with a seismographic sensitivity that registers the hand's determination and vulnerability.""
Art events and criticism across New York emphasize works that evoke intense viewer responses and those that provoke critique. A radiant Edward Zutrau painting can eclipse a drizzly day and stop viewers in their tracks, focusing attention on the encounter with the work. Jeff Koons's mirrored sculptures lack self-reflection and recall gaudy excess, inviting comparisons to ostentatious spaces. A MoMA presentation of African diaspora portraiture foregrounds cultural habitus as a way of existing in the world. City galleries present a range from beautiful to depraved, with cold weather encouraging indoor exhibition visits.
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