LUSH LIFE


Tonight, my two best friends art and literature unite New York-style at the opening of Lush Life, an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud taking place at nine separate gallery locations on the Lower East Side. Featuring some of our favorite younger galleries, as well as artist Scott Hug (featured in The Last Magazine #4), the sprawling assemblage reinterpret’s Richard Price’s 2008 murder mystery novel Lush Life; each gallery’s exhibition focuses on a different chapter of his novel. Applying a unique conceptual conceit to traditional group show curation, the show’s curators chose nine artists, who each in turn chose an additional artist to build up the exhibition. While my favorite literary homage to New York City is probably Joan Didion’s Goodbye to All That, wherein the author departs after getting her fill of heartless New York (but you did come back to us, didn’t you Joanie?), Lush Life represents New York at its more obviously steamy, seedy and degenerate–quite perfect for the weather we’re having.

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