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Yesterday I talked about Eva Hesse’s paintings at DDDD in Tribeca. Jan Dickey hosted an afternoon of art-history storytelling with John W. Wagner on William Glackens, Emily Chun on Albert Pinkham Ryder, and me. Thank you to everyone who came! DDDD opened on the Lower East Side in 2022 and moved to Leonard Street last year. We were surrounded by Jan’s new show, “Compression.” Look at those surfaces. The paint cracks and wrinkles; sometimes only a point or an edge of a star shows through. In his windowless Brooklyn studio, Jan used a lamp and a mirror etched with a five-pointed star to project the shape, tracing it from different angles. I love his colors. He told me the work was inspired by the Siena show at the Met, one of the most incredible exhibitions I’ve ever seen—all that gold leaf glowing against dark walls. Looking at his yellows and cracked surfaces, I could see the connection. I wish I could paint. Imagine coming home from that show and knowing what to do with a brush. “Compression” is up through November 14 at 79 Leonard Street. @jan.dickey @dddd.pictures @emchun @jawnwagner Afterward, the storytellers and assorted friends went to Walker’s for drinks and dinner. I’ve been going for decades. It became Walker’s in 1987, but there’s been a bar at North Moore and Varick since the 1880s. Before that it was Vic’s, where Washington Market’s truck drivers drank. The owners uncovered the old wooden bar beneath seven coats of black paint and a Formica top. The chili was excellent, by the way. I told the younger crowd about growing up when the drinking age was 18. By the time I got there, it was 19. I finally became legal, and a few months later they raised it to 21. They took it back. They stared at me like I was describing the Civil War. Then I told them about getting fake IDs at 14 at Postermat on 8th Street. Mine said I attended Stevens Institute of Technology, an engineering school in New Jersey. The clubs barely glanced at our IDs. There we were, very young teenagers in very grown-up rooms. I was so happy to be back there with this bunch.
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On occasion of Jan Dickey’s solo exhibition, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, we invite you to join us Saturday, October 17th for an afternoon of art history hosted by the artist with presentations by John W. Wagner, Emily Chun, and Laurie Gwen Shapiro. The presenters will explore the work of American painters William Glackens, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Eva Hesse. During the Q&A portion the presenters will answer questions about the work and Jan will field questions about the exhibition.   To RSVP DM or email us at contact@dddd.pictures! 𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝙒. 𝙒𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙧 is a poet, craps dealer, and street preacher based in the Northeast Megalopolis. His voice is his instrument and his words are its notation. As a self-described ‘blue collar autodidact’, he lacks formal training, for which he compensates with a nimiety of life experience. A book of his poems, Anyway, was published in 2025 and is available on Amazon. 𝙀𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙣 is an art writer and doctoral candidate in art history at Stanford focused on sculpture in 1989. Her writing about art has appeared in various publications such as Art in America, Frieze, e-flux, ArtReview, the Brooklyn Rail, among others.  𝙇𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙚 𝙂𝙬𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙤 is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. She is the author of the bestselling The Stowaway and The Aviator and the Showman, named one of the year’s best books by NPR, The New Yorker, and Smithsonian. An adjunct professor of journalism at NYU, she is working on Einstein in America for Viking. Compression runs from October 14 - November 14. The opening reception will be held on October 16th, 6-8pm
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Please join @per_seity and D. D. D. D. for the launch of PERSEITY Art Review, Volume 1, and a closing celebration of solo exhibitions by Anna Gregor and Stefan Reiterer. Have a drink, look at some paintings, grab a copy (while supplies last), and learn about the close-looking, prose-forward review. The event will run from 5–7pm, October 9th 2026. PERSEITY is an art / criticism magazine founded on the conviction that individual artworks are the basic unit of meaning in art analysis, that perception is an activity and takes work, hence that writing criticism is its own creative work. Book design by @annaisrael_
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Today’s the final day of @springbreakartshow. Huge thanks to @whitehotmagazine on the inclusion of @emchun and my booth in their article.
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Days 4 & 5 Highlights from the SPRING / BREAK Art Show! Today is the LAST day of the fair! We will be open from 12-7! Come on over to the old CBS Building at 555 W. 57th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues! #springbreakartshow #artfair #artfairs #artweek #contemporaryartfair
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Today’s the first day of @springbreakartshow. Come hangout with us today from 5pm to 8 pm for the opening party at booth D30 🎉. The fair runs every day until September 28th from 12pm to 7pm. Tickets here 👇🏻 https://www.eventbrite.com/o/springbreak-art-show-12813445625?aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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V Good Summer ;) 🙏🥲 * * * * 1 and 3📸 @nicoprada.bfx
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Recent notes on my pad: 1. Hold a calm mind 2. It’s doubt, not failures, that bottles your neck 3. People change because time does 4. Be less interested in your own misery
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Love and Form, Part I by Emily Chun ~ @emchun on love through the impersonality of form: the possibility of intimacy through the "brutal indifference" of autonomous artistic form. With formal analyses of Manet's "Olympia", an Albers color study, and Hirshfield's "Two Women In Front of a Mirror". Read the full essay at perseity.nyc
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D. D. D. D. is pleased to share that John Hee Taek Chae’s solo exhibition, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥, has been reviewed in @brooklynrail by Emily Chun. The exhibition is on view until June 20th at D. D. D. D. Read the full article in our bio! @emchun is a writer and a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Stanford University We are open Wednesday through Saturday 11-6pm For questions or inquiries DM or email us at contact@dddd.pictures
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Last days to see Small Domains at @hollistaggart - so grateful to show next to the wonderful @jaquelinecedar and @midponder_cloud Image: Crockett Adirondack, 2025. Oil on panel. 10 x 11 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches.
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CLOSING THIS SATURDAY Feb 21 @hollistaggart OPEN TUES - SAT 11 am - 5 pm 521 W 26th St, 1st Floor Annex New York NY 10001 Info@hollistaggart.com SMALL DOMAINS Jaqueline Cedar Samuel Guy Calvin Kim Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Small Domains, a group show of small-scale paintings by three contemporary New York-based artists: Jaqueline Cedar, Samuel Guy, and Calvin Kim. All three artists loosely work in the representational vein of painting: Guy’s paintings engage with traditional portraiture through built-up surfaces of oil paint, Cedar’s paintings traffic in stylized figuration with clean edges and thin acrylic washes, and Kim’s works imbue everyday subject matter with wonder and a poetic, oneiric sensibility. Left Acrylic on panel 7 x 5 inches
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