The downtown New York art dealer Nathalie Karg is aghast when young people haven’t heard of Colin de Land and Pat Hearn, the forward-looking art-dealer couple who helped found the Armory Show art fair. Paintings here by Nina Childress celebrate de Land and Hearn. Tongue-in-cheek, verging on kitsch, and blatantly fawning, they’re painted in wild — even glow-in-the-dark — colors. They are a perfect meta-project: paintings of insider-art-fair-dealers inside an art fair — as well as a memorial and a slice of recent New York art history.
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November 2, 2023
