Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, and anything you could see in person.
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That form of knowledge slipped away early this year.
The George Floyd protests initiated the next stage: Everyone went out again, all at the same time.
We rediscovered one another.
This year reconfigured everything.
Nothing is neutral here.
Were now hyperaware that art lives in mutinous, contested space.
And, I think, better.
Meanwhile, the shattered, recongealing figures in Chases paintings and sculptures alert us to a new shining star.
A new scriptorium of art.
If I were a Netflix producer, Id sign him for a series.
5.JonathanBerger:AnIntroductiontoNamelessLove(ParticipantInc.)
The effect was a temple of rhapsodic wisdom and pulsing prose.
Sculptural poetry from a maker who deserves a MacArthur.
4.NoahDavis(DavidZwirner)
A thrilling discovery and a terrible loss.
Gorgeous works of delight, life, and dilapidation.
2.JordanCasteel:WithinReach(NewMuseum)
This outstanding survey confirmed the 31-year-old Casteel as a major talent.
Casteels paintings blaze in resinous, sensuous color.
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Galleries are my way of knowing the world.
Seeing art in the flesh sustains me.
Before the pandemic, Id been seeing 25 shows a week, every week, since 1982.
As with much else, the coronavirus stopped galleries in their tracks.
Many feared galleries could suffer a mass-extinction event.
Returning to the galleries has been joyous.
Long may the galleries thrive.
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