Matilda Lin Berke

Matilda Lin Berke is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail

Are these the “five easy pieces” to which the exhibition title (a reference to the 1917/1918 Igor Stravinsky composition and 1970 Bob Rafelson film) gestures? Perhaps they are not so easy after all.

Haim Steinbach, Particle Board with Black Shapes #3, 1976. Oil stick on particle board, 23 × 23 inches. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Downtown/Uptown, co-curated by Mary Boone and Brett Gorvy, charts the exterior and interior geographies of these not-so-discrete domains.

Andy Warhol, Reel Basquiat, 1984. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 90 × 70 inches. © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS). Courtesy Lonian Gallery.

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