THE MIND IS THE CANVAS, PAT STEIR IS THE BRUSH

Step aside, straight lines and cerebral detachment- Pat Steir isn’t here for minimalist politeness. At Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street outpost, her reimagined installation Mirage 1975 defies walls not just physically but psychologically, resurrecting a space where visual and verbal consciousness flicker like twin flames in a brain lit by wild intuition. Transformation is a mechanism that came to mind. When Steir first painted directly on gallery walls in 1975, she shattered the boundary between artwork and spectator, insisting that immersion is the purest form of perception.

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Summer 2025: The Films That Challenge What It Means to Be Human

Cinema has always been the great mirror, reflecting our emotions, desires, and deepest fears- often with more clarity than reality ever could. We demand humanity on screen in a way we rarely tolerate in real life. The more flawless the faces, the more hypnotic the performances, the more we allow them to evoke the sympathy and empathy we struggle to extend in our own relationships. 

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Roth Bar NYC Reconstructs The Art Walk

Is it a bar, is it an art piece? Now it is both. After a long-awaited liquor license, Hauer & Wirth’s Roth Bar opened a NYC location for Spring 2025. The opening reception for the wizard of transformation and transitoriness, Dieter Roth, was held at their 18th street gallery on February 25, 2025. Alongside Islandscapes, this was an early look at the bar as an extension of the bar as an installation. How peculiar to drink and eat at a bar created by someone who made art with decaying food.

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