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Jeffrey Deitch Apologizes to Miles Greenberg for Rapper’s ‘Derivative’

Jeffrey Deitch Apologizes to Miles Greenberg for Rapper’s ‘Derivative’

Published by José Betancourt

New York’s Jeffrey Deitch apologized to artist Miles Greenberg after an ascendant rapper staged an event at the gallery that appeared to draw upon a performance done in the same location in 2021. The musician, Lexa Gates, promoted her new album by walking for hours inside a giant wheel at Jeffrey Deitch on January 14. Titled The Wheel, Gates’s performance was meant to “reinforce the message of persistence, emotional resilience and forward motion that acts as the central theme of the record,” according to the event’s official description. Her related album, I Am, has received coverage from such outlets as Pitchfork, which gave it a score of 5.5 out of 10. Related Articles On a post by Gates promoting the event, Greenberg noted that The Wheel seemed akin to his own performance Oysterknife, for which the artist walked for nearly an entire day straight on a conveyor belt while a digital clock marked time. When Oysterknife debuted at the Marina Abramović Institute in 2020, the performance was briefly halted when Greenberg lost consciousness. The next …

Kohshin Finley’s first L.A. show opens at Jeffrey Deitch

Kohshin Finley’s first L.A. show opens at Jeffrey Deitch

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s November Kinship issue, celebrating L.A.’s generous spirit and the artistic collaborations that happen among family and friends. To spend 10 years in one place is a relationship as meaningful as any other. Maybe more meaningful. There’s a level of grace and acceptance the space offers to its inhabitant over time, allowing them to shift and mutate without judgment. The space says, “Do you. I’m here. I see you.” Artist Kohshin Finley’s work exists in the context of relationships — with art history, with his friends and family, with past versions of himself — and the studio he’s been doing this work in for nearly a decade feels like a container for them all, a reflection and protection of his different periods as an artist. The space floats above a sea of tourists in Hollywood buying plastic Oscar statuettes at souvenir shops, but you wouldn’t know it by how quiet it gets up there. Its west-facing windows diffuse the room with a coat of hazy light. It used to be …