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Presenting a solo presentation of Ragna Róbertsdóttir at The Breuer was a dream. The building’s iconic fourth floor, with its slate tile floors, concrete coffered ceilings, and soaring double height walls, was the perfect place for Ragna’s solo debut in the United States. The best window in New York illuminated “Glacier” (1999), Ragna’s site-specific work of crushed glass adhered directly on the wall, and provided a geometric counterpart for her “Lava Landscape” (1996), made of black lava (also adhered directly to the wall).

On the floor, Ragna’s untitled cut lava sculpture from 1989 grounded the booth; her sculpture of Manila rope, linen, and slate from 1987 demonstrated her mastery of handiwork through the meticulously hand-bound rope. Thank you to Independent 20th Century (@independent_hq, @e.dee.art, Sofie, and @kyle.penner) for a truly incredible venue and fair!

Ragna’s newest monograph, which features all four works from the booth and is beautifully designed by Studio Studio (@studiostudiostudiostudio), is now available on the websites of @i8gallery and @distanzverlag.

#Independent20C #i8Gallery #RagnaRóbertsdóttir #MarcelBreuer
Images by Alexa Hoyer

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Downtown Dealers with @racheluffner and @e.dee.art at @uffnerliu

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From The Breuer uptown, Independent heads back downtown this week for another edition of Downtown Dealers with @racheluffner in conversation with Independent founder Elizabeth Dee (@e.dee.art).

Join us on Wednesday, September 30, 6:30 pm at @uffnerliu for the return of our live conversation series uniting New York art dealers across generations to share their approaches and experiences.

Rachel Uffner founded Rachel Uffner Gallery in NYC’s Lower East Side in 2008. In 2025, Rachel Uffner partnered with Lucy Liu and the name of the gallery changed to Uffner & Liu. Over the past 18 years, the gallery has established itself as a vital platform for introducing new artistic voices, championing female-identifying artists, and cultivating institutional relationships.

This talk is free with RSVP (link in bio).

#RachelUffner

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WPA Mural Study. Michael Loew. Avail.
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Michael Loew (1907-1985) “Detail for Mural, Social Security Building, Washington DC,” 24 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed, titled and Dated 1940 verso. Hand carved frame, 34 x 34 inches.
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The Loew is available and a highlight of our new exhibition THE MODERN MOMENT, ART THAT SHAPED THE 20th CENTURY.
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BIO
Loew was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker, and from 1926-1929, he studied at the Art Student’s League.
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In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany, and Italy with a group of artists and when he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly, and for the next two years he paid his apartment rent with his paintings.
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In 1935, he found work with the WPA where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World’s Fair. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives.
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In 1946, his painting moved quickly toward abstraction. His works are in the collections of many prominent institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum.
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#independent20c #wpaart #thearmoryshow
#americanart #modernart

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Non Objective Abstract. Hillla Rebay. 1945 Avail.
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Hilla Rebay (1890 – 1967) “Untitled,” 8 x 9 inches.Watercolor on paper, c. 1945. Provenance: Estate of Hilla Rebay; Gary Snyder Fine Art.
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The Rebay is available and a highlight of our new exhibition THE MODERN MOMENT, ART THAT SHAPED THE 20th CENTURY.
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Hilla Rebay was an avant-garde artist who created The Museum of Non-Objective Art (which would become the Guggenheim Museum) and was instrumental in bringing abstract, modernism art to the United States.
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In 1917, she med Rudolph Bauer, a German painter of non-objective styles who became her long-time lover, and in the future, the cause of controversy after she was accused of devoting disproportionate exhibition space to him at the Guggenheim Museum. It was said that her enthusiasm for him and his work was “unbounded” and that he inspired her paintings alive with restless, jostling, organic forms.
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Hilla Rebay first visited the United States in 1927 and stayed for an extended time period, which included her giving painting lessons to Louise Nevelson, seeking portrait commissions and exhibiting her own works at Manhattan galleries. Among her portrait commission subjects was Solomon Guggenheim. Rebay had met Solomon and his wife Irene when they purchased two of her paintings at a Manhattan show. The two were collectors of conventional art, but during the sittings, Hilla apprised him of what was going on in avant-garde art circles. She brought painters to meet Guggenheim and encouraged him to collect their art, which he did, filling his Plaza Hotel apartment, and museum, which she became director.
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#abstract #thearmoryshow #independent20c #guggenheim #nonobjectiveart

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Independent 20th Century is “A Modernist Show In Its Dream Home.”—@nytimes

Now at home inside Marcel Breuer’s “temple of art,” don’t miss these presentations at Independent 20th Century that channel The Breuer’s brutalist spirit 📐

▪️Ragna Róbertsdóttir presented by @i8gallery
▪️General Idea presented by @mian
▪️Yves Klein presented by @levygorvydayan
▪️Sachiko Koshikoku presented by @gomide.co

#Independent20c #MarcelBreuer

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ELIZABETH DEE AND CHARLES STEWART HAD A BEAUTIFUL BABY.

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Elizabeth Dee (@e.dee.art), founder of Independent, welcomes you to Independent 20th Century at The Breuer.

As we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the iconic brutalist building which first opened in 1966, we look to architect Marcel Breuer for inspiration in creating a new model for discovery, slowing down, and looking deeply with intention.

The fair opens today to VIP with a vernissage preview 5-7 pm. Plan your visit and book your tickets in advance (link in bio).

#Independent20c #MarcelBreuer

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Welcome to The Breuer.

Independent 20th Century opens today with an invitation-only VIP preview from 11 AM to 5 PM, and a ticketed vernissage from 5 PM to 7 PM. The show is open to the public September 25–27.

Last night at @marcelnyc, collectors and dealers joined us for an early preview of the fair, a curated international roster of galleries presenting exhibitions of 20th-century art, including solo surveys of both canonical and overlooked figures and thematic presentations of specific movements in art from 1900 to 1999.

Link in bio for tickets.

📸: @leandrojusten

#Independent20c

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OPENING TOMORROW | AL HELD

Independent 20th Century
The Breuer | Booth 406
September 24 – 27, 2026

James Fuentes presents two iconic Alphabet Paintings by New York artist Al Held (1928–2005), marking a historic return to the former Met Breuer building more than 50 years after their inclusion in Held’s major retrospective curated by Marcia Tucker at the Whitney Museum in 1974.

Acclaimed for his monumental geometric paintings, Held occupies a pivotal position in postwar art, achieving emotional intensity through rigorous geometric clarity amid the city’s contending currents of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism at the time. Each staging a monumental letterform (or its apparent fragment), the Alphabet works (1961–67) crystallize Held’s core concerns: specificity over ambiguity, a bodily sense of scale and compression, and the tension
between illusion and surface.

The “I”, 1965
Acrylic on canvas
108 x 76 inches
274.3 x 193 cm

Al Held
Upside Down Triangle, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
114 x 168 x 2 3/4 inches
289.6 x 426.7 x 7 cm

© Al Held Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

special thanks @maraheld @belascodaniel @victoriashawkins @whitecube

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Join us on Wednesday, September 30 for the next edition of Downtown Dealers with @racheluffner in conversation with Independent founder Elizabeth Dee (@e.dee.art) at @uffnerliu, part of our live conversation series uniting New York art dealers across generations to share their approaches and experiences.

Rachel Uffner founded Rachel Uffner Gallery in NYC’s Lower East Side in 2008. In 2025, Rachel Uffner partnered with Lucy Liu and the name of the gallery changed to Uffner & Liu. Over the past 18 years, the gallery has established itself as a vital platform for introducing new artistic voices, championing female-identifying artists, and cultivating institutional relationships.

#DowntownDealers #RachelUffner #UffnerLiu

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On the occasion of @antonkerngallery’s 30th anniversary, the latest installment of our Downtown Dealers conversation series featured the gallery’s founder Anton Kern in dialogue with Independent’s founder Elizabeth Dee (@e.dee.art).

Over the decades, Kern has consistently worked with a core group of artists from the United States and abroad, and in honor of that long history, Dee invited several of them to pose questions to the dealer about his own inspirations and artistic heritage, and the throughline that ties everything together at the gallery. Kern explained what it is about running his gallery and envisioning the art that comes after whatever an artist is currently making that gets him up in the morning. “I have to see,” he says, “that there is something that is exciting for me tomorrow.”

Tap the link in bio to read the full conversation.

#AntonKernGallery #AntonKern

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