Karma, the West Village’s beloved design shop/bookstore/art gallery, is packing up and headed to points east! Their new space, at 39 Great Jones Street, is formerly the studio of the artist Ugo Rondinone, who purchased a defunct church in Harlem in 2011 that will presumably serve as his new studio space. Read More
“The Spirit Level,” curated by Ugo Rondinone into every last corner of Gladstone Gallery’s two large spaces in Chelsea, unfolds like a Rosicrucian initiation ceremony, beginning with genuine awe framed in circus colors and simulated horror; moving on through celestial allusions, sex magic, decorative symbols and heavy-handed numerology; and ending in a series of archetypal busts with their crown-chakras open and ready for divine wisdom to pour in. Read More
