Frank Auerbach at TIMOTHY TAYLOR and Zeitgeist at HOWL! HAPPENING

James Kalm, gangs up a couple of recent gallery visits that might stand as highlights for this new summer season. Frank Auerbach “Landscapes and Portraits’ at Timothy Taylor, features a select group of this “School of London” master’s paintings going back to the early 1980s. This is Auerbach’s first New York showing since 2006, and local paint-heads are thrilled. A current manifestation of “material painting” has appeared among a group of young painters, and Auerbach is seen as a forefather for many of these practitioners. Heading back to the Lower East Side viewers can hang on to the handlebars till we get to the Bowery, and slid in to see “Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat”, a group show at Howl! Happening. Jean-Michel Basquiat has become the iconic artist of the Downtown and East Village scenes. During his brief artistic career (he died in 1987), Basquiat inspired and collaborated with many of the youngsters who went on to become the established names in New York’s cultural community. Poignantly, this show is an homage not only to Jean-Michel but many of the other artists who have also now passed on, though without the world changing impact of Basquiat. This program was recorded on June 8, and June10, 2018