By Will Heinrich 11/29/11 4:29pm

Review

Installation view of Esther Kläs, "Nobody Home," at Peter Blum

It’s a Draw: Esther Kläs at Peter Blum Gallery and ‘Cory Arcangel vs. Pierre Bismuth’ at Team Gallery

It’s theology that looks like a math problem: Is it possible for a wall to have only one side? In her first solo show in New York, at Peter Blum Gallery, the sculptor Esther Kläs’s answer is yes. Using sheets of two-inch Styrofoam to build up monolithic forms, and Aqua Resin dyed in a postwar German palette of cement grays and morbid dark grays, she molds the mysterious, axiomatically impenetrable outsides of things. Read More

By Sarah Douglas and Andrew Russeth 11/09/11 12:01pm

Movements

Video still of "Untitled (Project for the Whitney Museum)" (2009) by Alex Bag. (Courtesy the artist)

Alex Bag Moves to Team Gallery

New York video artist Alex Bag is now represented by SoHo’s Team Gallery. José Friere, the founder and director of the gallery, confirmed the move to Gallerist today and said that the gallery will host its first solo exhibition with Ms. Bag in March of next year, at its Grand Street location. (The gallery opened a second space on Wooster Street earlier this year, and Mr. Friere has said he plans to add artists to Team’s roster.) Read More