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6 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Julie Baumgardner
“It’s really key to our industry to be delusional. Like, you just need to have this delusional brain to run a gallery these days,” said Tribeca-based dealer Margot Samel. The delusion, of course, is “a true belief in what artists are doing,” she told me, and imagining how to put together a collection of ideas that reflect contemporary art’s telos of now. Luckily, that’s all found in the second edition of Esther, known as Esther II, which runs until this Saturday, May 10.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Annabel Keenan |Julie Baumgardner |Osman Can Yerebakan |Daniel Cassady
The spirit of collaboration is alive in New York with a group of small galleries joining forces to open two unrelated shared spaces. The first, a partnership between JDJ, Deanna Evans Projects and the new Chozick Family Art Gallery, launched in January with all three sharing JDJ’s current home on the second floor of 370 Broadway in Tribeca, each exhibiting on a monthly rotation.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
artsy.net | Julie Baumgardner
The nexus of the Nordic region, Copenhagen continues to flex its cultural capital. Its food, fashion, and design scenes are attracting attention from travelers, with steady growth in the Danish tourism sector in recent years. Meanwhile, “Scandi girl” style and Nordic design tips flutter across the internet; Noma continues its 20-year run as the world’s premier restaurant; and do we even need to mention hygge?
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
stirworld.com | Julie Baumgardner
STIRring ‘Everywhere’ in Venice: As the Venice Biennale becomes carbon neutral, art brings hope and imagination to climate change debates. by Julie BaumgardnerVenice is a testament to humanity’s ability to bend the environment to our will.
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May 15, 2024 | 
wallpaper.com | Julie Baumgardner
While design thinking is mostly creative problem solving, what if the answer to a specific set of problems is just 'to slow down,' says gallerist and curator Alex Tieghi-Walker, whose outfit TIWA Gallery just opened an exhibition, a tableau, a proposal from the high-priestess of lighting, Lindsey Adelman. 'A Realm of Light' is on view at the gallery's Tribeca location during New York Design Week 2024 and until 8 June. 'A lot of the shows here are nature inspired,' says Tieghi-Walker.
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May 9, 2024 | 
artsy.net | Julie Baumgardner
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the actress Chloë Sevigny noted something about dogs in New York City: They are everywhere. “The dogs are taking over, and that’s really unfortunate,” she said. “Everybody’s in Lululemon and has a f***ing dog!” While many (perhaps a majority) will not share Sevigny’s opinion, dog ownership has shot up in recent years.
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May 3, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Julie Baumgardner
Remember when Frieze New York was new? It feels like eons ago. Back in 2012, the import of London’s latest concept for a market moment shook up the sleepy Armory Show and smaller outfits that have since pivoted a zillion times, some folding, others like Volta pushing for a comeback to offer something distinct. Add in Independent, and by 2014, the New York art press was declaring “Fair Fatigue” — I would know, we at Art+Auction (RIP) ran an editorial with that headline.
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May 3, 2024 | 
wallpaper.com | Julie Baumgardner
Sometimes change and opportunity intersect at fateful moments. For ceramicist Simone Bodmer-Turner, a special offer presented itself: 'I was lightly looking,' for something different, she says. That proposition? A Deerfield-style farmhouse, in rural central Massachusetts, on land well-tilled by a family-friend. Bodmer-Turner, for the record, 'never worked in anything but ceramics,' she says matter-of-factly. 'I'm very interested in function, making a space and its design.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Julie Baumgardner
VENICE — There was a minute when the art press might have been able to meet the Pope. It was a short minute, a New York one, even — definitely not a Venetian one. The encounter was slated to take place at the Pavilion of the Holy See at the Venice Biennale on April 21; instead, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to visit the contemporary art event on Sunday, landing by helicopter in a private event with no outsiders allowed. The Papacy is an organization that operates on secrecy.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
washingtonstand.com | Julie Baumgardner
If you’re planning a marriage proposal for 2024, you’re far from alone. Wedding industry experts suspect that 2024 and the following few years are going to be a boom for proposals. But every proposal represents the beginning, in its way, of a new marriage. Marriage isn’t something that just happens to you. It is carefully built and nurtured every day. You and your spouse are called to show up, even on the hard days, to do the work.
