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Roving Eye: Flying High in Pittsburgh

Yesterday was a very busy art day in Pittsburgh, with several openings at downtown galleries and art spaces. First, I went to see Herman Pearl's new installation Named UnNamed in a vacant commercial…

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  Eric Shiner
• Apr 29, 2011 2:42 pm

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Roving Eye: Pictures of People: One Significantly Missing Artist

I started off my week with a true discovery in the form of the Partners & Spade Gallery on Great Jones Street. I went down to see the work of Warhol's former assistant Walter Steding and Warhol's frie…

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  Eric Shiner
• Apr 22, 2011 11:45 am

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Roving Eye: Warhol’s Socialist Side

Last week in New York I did a studio visit with Russian artist Yevgeniy Fiks that harkened to a meeting I had days earlier in Pittsburgh. In his conceptual practice, Fiks examines the rise and fall of…

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  Eric Shiner
• Apr 15, 2011 6:04 pm

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Roving Eye: Lost Shermans, Lost Flowers

On Sunday I flew to New York to meet with artist Deborah Kass, so that we could make the final selection of works to be included in her mid-career retrospective that will launch at the Warhol next spr…

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  Eric Shiner
• Apr 8, 2011 11:46 am

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Roving Eye: Eric Shiners Week in Review

For the last several weeks I have been among Icelanders. Specifically, I've mingled with the friends and family of artist Ragnar Kjartansson, whose excellent show of work inspired by music is on vie…

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  Eric Shiner
• Mar 31, 2011 3:35 pm