This work represents a kind of insular, art world insider worldview. There's an aspect of it that is like name dropping at a party in hopes it will get you some recognition.

Thank you 🙏

Thanks buskers thanks Kate. Wow nice to see jamian making breakthroughs

Again another great show! Thank you so much James.

Thank you Kate 🌞👍

Thank you Kate!

Wonderful! Thanks so much

great show, greetings from CUBA

Perhaps the ultimate extension of Jamian's work would be to contract someone to live her entire life, then just do herself in . . . or at least go to bed in perpetuity.

Agree about the buskers and all the other street-life that ends up in these videos. One of the great joys of a big city is that there's always so much going on. You can turn a corner and suddenly find yourself in the middle of a demonstration or a wedding or a road rage incident. Some of it can be pleasurable, some of it not so much, but it's always fascinating, to me anyway. So I love to see these little glimpses into the throbbing core of the Big Apple as well as all the great art that's on show. Hope to be able to visit there myself one day. 🤩

excellent!!

Thank you Kate - & well done to all the buskers.

The problem with the potential of postnet artists and their role in representing contemporary art is that most these artists got caught up in the stardom galleries and gallerists created around them rendering then out as suposing to get away with everything. It also shows the pickings of galleries does niet represent Quality. In short the gallery is nothing more than a market space which serves fiscality and nothing more. What means that the mediocre taste of gallerists represent best what is happening to our world and the potential that is going to waste.. anyway.. what else is new

Thanks Loren, I'm so pleased you covered this show. Always interesting to hear your take and get more details than photos offer. The show is absolutely knockout on a number of fronts and the cultural positioning is pitch perfect in its references. One of the criticisms above is about slightness and its one of the interesting paradoxes of showing at Gagosian where you assume everything will sell and for very high prices. Slightness and value at odds in exactly the way Picabia provoked as you mention. Same with Kippenberger and outsourcing the making. The deskilling aspect of the show, or perhaps the joke about the ineffable mystique of touch has more to do with K. that Kehinde etc. for me. It also seems like a very contemporary critique, mocking even, of the figurative surrealism we're seeing so much of currently that fetishizes finish and a sort of photo realism. I dont' know about you but I actually feel an enormous amount of relief at such a blatant disregard for the anxieties about how to refine a surface so that its appealing although I could never live with her resolution in my own work myself. And at the risk of being long winded I instinctively feel that because of the lightness or flipness, which some may view as cynicism, that there's no expectation of longevity. No claim to greatness, an acknowledgement that as all things must pass, and especially in the superheated environment of the commercial realities of Gagosian's lofty heights, that the click is ticking and it's already two minutes to midnight.

I will admit to being triggered as soon as I heard that these works are coming out of painting sweatshops in China, but on further mulling, conditioned that initial response. Pranksters are integral to the Western art world, and of course having studios and squads of assistants doing the bulk of the production is ancient stuff. And even the laborers over in China - I'm sure it's good work and they are grateful. That said, merit, effort, and blood, sweat and tears are often (not always) the forge that hardens the soul's steel. Too romantic a notion? The overall flip-book range of subjects in this show feels pretty light, breezy and not coming from any great depth. It gives me the same cynical vibe as corporate media work. That said, I liked the more graphic-design-oriented works, my favorite oddly being the Jewish Princess text one. AI Art is going to be the next great moral quandary, perhaps further dampening people's reactions to outsourced paintings. "Buskers are a big part of the Kalm Report," and I think thats wonderful, and always sets the table that this video meal is served live from the streets of NYC! I know you got a comment on your last upload, and I say shucks to that complaint! And today's band was extra awesome, really full of joy. Thank you so much, and thanks Kate!

I would prefer seeing a Robert Williams Show especially if the labor was farmed out. Thanks Kate

we live in a karaoke culture

Good busker in this one.

Steamy Little Jewish Princess is a line from a Frank Zappa song. hilarious 😆

so wait...did she paint these paintings or did someone else?

a show like this doesn't happen without some nepotism

Holding it down for Jersey! Love JJV she's the trouble maker this woke thunderdome desperately needs!

Well: After a moment of "Gee wiz, doesn't that look just like a photograph!" (and THOUSANDS of artists can paint like this), this work becomes a mockery of the viewer... I usually like what you bring to us James, but sometimes I get a little bit tired of being pissed on like a dog at a fire hydrant.

The Alex Katz painting was interesting in that I was thinking this is basically Alex Katz,-meets- Rosenquist... and a lot less interesting than either. This is being cheeky for its own sake. If you're going to to have an edge make sure you cut someone who matters.

The most schizo show I've ever seen.

Made in china ?

What a boring show that is