I spent two weeks frustrated and perplexed, wondering how I could have missed Carriage Trade’s summer show, Rich Land, Poor Land. The dark side of land use and Manifest Destiny with Manzanar, Holt & Smithson, CLUI, Wernher von Braun, and a roomfilling Michael Ashkin installation?? Four asterisks and an incisive review at The Manhattan Art Review?? [which I clicked because I was so annoyed by two cranky columns hating on critics at Two Coats of Paint, which dismissed TMAR as mere “Yelp-style blurbs,” and which also misidentified Brad Tr0emel as a leftist. Anyway,]
And then I got an email announcing that the show will reopen this Friday, Sept. 12, at 6:00, with a film screening and reading by Ashkin at 7:30. Which, alas, I will also miss. But the show, at least, will stay open until October 12, so I and you and all your friends can go.
Rich Land, Poor Land, May 29–July 27, and Sept. 12–Oct 12, 2025 [carriagetrade]