Berlin Art Week
There is no Danger from Above, by Peter Richter
“Cheerful amidst Maurizio Cattelan’s dead pigeons, a tour of the construction site at the Kulturscheune – and let’s not forget the food: at Berlin Art Week, the art world is back from its summer break. The atmosphere is lively. (…)
A few blocks away, a short while later at Haverkampf Leistenschneider, the painter Aubrey Levinthal—who has just flown in from the U.S.—walks through the door, still suffering from jet lag, and we witness her delight as she sees her very New York-style still lifes hanging for the first time alongside loans from her role models, Tal R and Janice Biala: a museum-worthy domino effect of shapes and colors.
Janice Biala? Exactly. A mid-century master of the New York School who has been criminally forgotten—and is all the more worthy of rediscovery. (…)”
