An Exhibition of 400 Found Notes

For 12 years, Sydney-based artist Laura Sullivan has been collecting discarded handwritten notes. The first one was a fairly dull shopping list, but since then she has found love notes, pro/con lists about romances, and very strange information on Post-It labels. She says she prefers the notes to come to her—she doesn’t go searching, “That sounds cheesy right? But it’s kind of true. I do …

Inventing Downtown

Focusing on the less documented artist-run galleries of NYC, “Inventing Downtown” centers on the post-war period of 1952 to 1965 and, while some of the names will be new to readers, the book also highlights early, unknown works by now-famous artists—like Dan Flavin and Jim Dine. From Pop to Minimalism and performance art, it was an era of great experimentation and (of course) downtown Manhattan …

The Haas Brother’s “King Dong Come” at R & Company

An exhibition of otherworldly creatures in sculptural form

Exceptional exhibitions are often entirely transportive; removing attendees from normalcy and delivering them to otherness. It can be done subtly, of course, but the route artistic duo The Haas Brothers have taken with “King Dong Come” is anything but. This whimsical immersive experience finds guests cast in a wonderland of character design, complete with flora and fauna. Here, one will find “Where the Wild Things …