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September 10, 2025

Ambera Wellmann, September Diary, an Event

My profile of painter Ambera Wellmann for CULTURED is here, and my New York Art Week Diary is here.

At the Armory Show, a person wearing mixed print pants and shirt gazing at smartphone in front of a garish, psychedelic Cindy Sherman work from her Clown Series.
The Armory Show, obviously

Other diary topics, cameos, and mentions include (in order of appearance): Chloë Bass’s Creative Time/MTA commission, Jerry Saltz, Matthew Kirk at Fierman, David Fierman, Alina Bliumis, Issy Wood, Naomi Fry, Ohad Meromi at 56 Henry, Alexander Archipenko, Zoe Leonard’s opening at Maxwell Graham, Ajay Kurian, Paige K. Bradley, Domenick Ammirati, Lia Gangitano, K8 Hardy’s doppelganger, K8 Hardy, Alex Jovanovich, Lloyd Wise, Paul Feeley at Garth Greenan Gallery, the Armory, Adrianne Rubenstein at ILY2’s booth, Alexander Calder at Berggruen Gallery’s booth, David Rimanelli, Shara Hughes at David Kordansky, LJ Roberts at Hales, Joanne Carson at DC Moore, David Rimanelli’s mother, David Shapiro, the Rajneesh movement, Austin Martin White at Petzel*, Sean Landers, Sam McKinniss at Deitch, Jeffrey Deitch, Jarrett Earnest, Gaza, Natasha Stagg, Kaitlin Phillips, Stella Bugbee, Annie Godfrey Larmon, Leanne Shapton, Open Invitational, Land Gallery, the Progressive Art Studio Collective in Detroit, Vanessa Montgomery, Stephen Tatum, Matthew Higgs, and Ambera Wellmann’s openings at Hauser & Wirth (Soho) and Company Gallery. Please reply to this email if you need a gift link (for either piece), see an error, notice an omission, or demand a retraction.

*I will be talking to Austin about his new paintings on September 13 at the gallery. And I have an essay in his new book.

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