Matthew barney nyc9/24/2023 ![]() ![]() She now works at the Chelsea gallery Tanya Bonakdar, though not before, she says, losing out on a job at a famous artist’s studio-a move her lawsuit claims Gladstone Gallery engineered.īeyond the specific accusations, the lawsuit alleges that a gallery that represents some of the world’s greatest artists-including Matthew Barney, Carroll Dunham, Arthur Jafa, and Elizabeth Peyton-fostered a toxic environment where Higgins’s vocal complaints of wage violations and discrimination led to retaliation and caused her “mental anguish” and “emotional distress.” One of Higgins’s more serious accusations involves the search for an assistant to hire after all staffers, Gladstone included, completed anti-discriminatory and diversity training. Higgins says she was forced to leave Gladstone in retaliation for speaking up against discriminatory payment practices. In her lawsuit, Higgins claims Gladstone and her senior partner Max Falkenstein engineered a payment system that denied overtime, and that Gladstone made race-baiting comments in regard to hiring practices, among other claims. That mental image-an octogenarian cultural figure launching a gallery handbook as a staffer-targeting projectile-is just the most scandalous of a litany of allegations included in Higgins’s complaint. It was the same month, according to a lawsuit filed last week in New York State Supreme Court, that gallery founder Barbara Gladstone, 84 years old at the time, allegedly “viciously threw a thick gallery book” at the head of a former manager named Laura Higgins. An ambitious drawing survey featuring work by dozens of artists took over the grand 21st Street space, while an acclaimed show by the artist Amy Sillman took over the gallery’s 24th Street space. These would be its first shows since merging with Gavin Brown’s Enterprise to create one of New York’s most vital and varied artist rosters. Otto wants to win at all costs, and is willing to deplete all of his energy to compete.In October 2020, Chelsea stalwart Gladstone Gallery had just reopened after the COVID lockdowns had shuttered much of New York’s art world six months prior. He seeks to open more orifices in himself and others, as an orifice is a site for the ingestion and release of energy. “The double zeros on his jersey suggest the many openings into his body. “ Otto is, by contrast, a porous, perforated, external being,” Barney writes. In Barney’s Playbook 91-92, the artist describes Houdini as his Character of Positive Restraint, a “self-enclosed, internal, hermetic being,” who “wants to preserve and store the energy generated during his training regimen,” by avoiding “expending energy in competition.” Loosely told, the OTTO trilogy depicts a vaudevillain Tom and Jerry struggle, wherein the Oakland Raiders’ fabled center, Jim Otto, tries to squeeze Houdini’s energy out of the magician's sealed bodily orifices. ![]() The Jim Otto Suite -OTTOblow-Houdini: OctoOcto- The Whopper - AUTOblow -Gluco Jack -Clean and Jerk, 1991 Light reflective vinyl, prosthetic plastic locker, NFL jersey, hydraulic jack with glucose syrup, petroleum jelly, videoįor those lost in the conceptual spume of contemporary exhibitions, Facility of DECLINE is a gut-punch worthy of Harry Houdini, one that will take you back to the days in which modern giants like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst still had things to prove. ![]()
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