Fall Art Season Begins: Socrates Sculpture Park and Lower East Side


David McQueen, one of us may have been sleeping, so I’ll try telling you again tonight at Socrates Sculpture Park

Aida Sehovic, Obstacle Course: Patriot Challenge at Socrates Sculpture Park

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir’s Bear Eats Man at Socrates Sculpture Park

Jonathan Allen paintings at Lu Magnus on Hester Street

Megan Burns’ painting in a group show at Lesley Heller Gallery on Orchard Street

Rachel Beach sculptures in her solo show at Blackston opening on Orchard Street

DJ entertaining the crowd at Orchard Street Block Party

Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street

Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street
Pizza Time! group show opening at Malborough Broome Street


The art season began in earnest last Sunday with an opening at the Socrates Sculpture Park’s annual Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition and a block party on Orchard Street and many coordinated openings at many of the Lower East Side (LES) galleries. EAF13 at the sculpture park did not lack a certain controversy caused by a provocative but playful sculpture made by Thordis Adalsteinsdottir (photo 7). Daily News posted a blurred image of the sculpture in an article titled, “Bear bites – and possibly arouses – naked man in Queens sculpture.” Be sure to read the commentary section of the article for some much needed hilarity.

The LES was particularly mobbed, and I ran into friends and acquaintances at practically every block. Broome Street is becoming another hub for galleries in LES with the openings of Jack Hanley Gallery, White Box, Canada and Malborough Broome Street. Malborough had a a big pizza oven parked outside the gallery, handing out free pizzas to commemorate the inaugural group exhibition called Pizza Time! As usual, it was more convivial and energetic in LES than Chelsea. I am posting some photos from the day. Next week I will be in Paris for a friend’s wedding, and will post how “la rentrée” of the art world is going in Paris. A bientôt!

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