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Opening of Your History Is Not Our History
March 5, 2010 @ Haunch of Venison, New York

There's another artist-curated show in town of blue-chip work from (primarily) private collections. Richard Phillips and David Salle's confrontationally titled show is "a response, literally, to the way in which the 80s have been distilled since that time," says the first artist. That's a distilled history of the 80s as divided into camps—"Pictures" artists and critique artists, Neo-Geos or Neo-Expressionists. "I was here," says Phillips, who lived in the East Village since 1986, "and those are not the camps as I remember them." It is a history of winners (alhough Schnabel, Fischl, and Basquiat weren't always such winners, reminds Phillips), but misunderstood ones whose work doesn't necessarily represent cultural hegemony. "There are no surprises in the show, in terms of the artists, and it's not about bringing up diamonds in the rough and showing obscure situations," Phillips says. Indeed, Mary Boone, a pivotal player in this history and a challenge to Leo Castelli, wouldn't have her diamonds rough.


Jessie Washburne-Harris and Michael Lieberman
Gallerists
New York, NY

Ruba Katrib
Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Miami

Andrew Roth
Dealer, Bookseller, Curator
New York

Edsel Williams
Curator, Art Advisor, bookmaker, director of The Fireplace Project
New York, NY

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Size doesn't mater: Abstract Expressionist stamps are out. http://tr.im/RCCd

AiANews 3/12/10 2:52pm

Irving Penn archive will go out via Christies. http://tr.im/RCBQ

AiANews 3/12/10 2:51pm

The stats: Manga popular among graphic novels. http://tr.im/RCBw

AiANews 3/12/10 2:48pm

Are you related to Caravaggio? http://tr.im/RCAT