First Up:  Hill Art Foundation, where Executive Director Sarah Needham will introduce us to the exhibition Three Christs, Sleeping Mime and the Last Supper Pagan Paradise, for which celebrated sculptor and provocateur Charles Ray has donned the curatorial hat, placing his own recent work in dialogue with Renaissance and Baroque bronzes from the collection of J. Tomilson and Janine Hill.  The 7,700 square foot custom-built Chelsea space opened in 2019 to house rotating exhibitions and educational programming that mine the Hills hundreds of holdings, spanning the Renaissance through the 21st century.  Called "catnip for art historians" by critic Hal Foster, Ray's already deeply referential work evokes a volley of additional meaning in this inspired installation.

Next Stop: Susan Inglett Gallery, where we will meet independent curator, David Platzker, widely hailed for his expertise in artists' books, multiples, ephemera and post-1960's art, whom Inglett has invited to curate BY/BUY ME. Formerly curator of MoMA's Department of Drawings and Prints, Platzker will explore with us the idea of the artist as self-publisher, investigating how artists from Marcel Duchamp through Ed Ruscha, The Gorilla Girls, Takashi Murakami, KAWS and many more, issue multiples, prints, posters, wallpaper, artists’ books and other goods that, in his words, "interrogate, parody or question the commodification of art.”