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Urs Fischer Tastes Like Good Vanilla Ice Cream
Urs Fischer, "Cumpadre" (2009) with a vanilla top. I picked a mean fight with a guide at the New Museum last Friday night. Our fierce disagreement over Urs Fischer in particular — and art in general —...
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Photo Break: Urs Fischer’s Giant Yellow Teddy Bear
Urs Fischer's “Untitled (Lamp/Bear)” (2005-6) (all photos by author) Stationed outside of the Seagram building at 75 Park Avenue between 52nd Street and 53rd Street is a giant yellow teddy bear. Oh...
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Photos from the 54th Venice Biennale, Part 1
One of the many long lines at the Venice Biennale. (all photo by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) Editor’s note: This is the first in three photo essays by Peter Dobey from this year’s...
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Urs Fischer: The Raw and the (Over)Cooked
Urs Fischer, “YES” (2013) (all photos by Stefan Altenburger, © Urs Fischer, Courtesy of the artists and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) LOS ANGELES — What do you get when you invite 1,500...
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Look Before You Sit: At Frieze New York, the Seats Are All Sculptures
The entrance to Frieze New York 2015 (all photos by the author) Frieze New York opens its doors to the public today, but already during yesterday’s press and VIP preview the aisles were crowded, the...
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Painting According to Frieze New York
Wilhelm Sasnal, “Untitled (car)” (2015), oil on canvas, 40×40 cm at Foksal Gallery Foundation (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted otherwise) It’s been about a hundred years since...
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Urs Fischer’s “Big Clay #4”: The Most Expensive Turd in the Art Casino?
Urs Fischer, “Big Clay #4 (2013-2014), cast aluminum, 511 3/4 x 330 3/4 x 204 3/4 inches (© Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery. Photo by Tom Powel) Looming over the pedestrians of...
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Urs Fischer and Gagosian Bank on a Big Pop-Up Show on Fifth Avenue
Urs Fischer, “Things” (2017), milled aluminum, steel, power magnets, two-component epoxy adhesive, 125 1/4 × 204 3/8 × 118 1/2 in, edition of 3 + 1 AP (work © Urs Fischer; photo by the author for...
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You Can Hang the Produce Aisle From Urs Fischer’s Louis Vuitton Bag
Louis Vuitton’s ArtyCapucines collection (image courtesy of Louis Vuitton, © Studio Lenthal) At the end of the day, we all want the same thing in life: the freedom to spend an inordinate amount of...
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Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?
Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?
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