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08/29/2026

On view now: KILLERS: Memento Mori. The gallery is open most Saturdays and by appointment. Today 8/29 we are open 1-6 pm. **CLOSED LABOR DAY WEEKEND**

08/22/2026

On view now: KILLERS: Memento Mori. The gallery is open most Saturdays and by appointment. Today 8/22, we are open 1-6 pm.

Shown here are:

A French memento mori dating to the late 1700s painted in gouache on parchment, depicting many objects that represent the transience of the human experience, such as flowers, an hourglass, a skull, a glass ball, clock, and more sitting atop an altar table of red marble. There are also several objects related to the arts and the human spirit, such as sheet music, a string instrument, and a theatre mask.

The text has been highlighted with gold leaf and reads:

“Leave all that is going on, and seek only that which is Eternal. - St. August

“Weak Condition, miserable Nature:
You are only Vanity, that Wind, that Rot,
You have nothing assured in this low element.
Your soft spirits and treasures without number,
Flow like the air and pass like a shadow,
and you would rather end something, than create a moment.”

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A French memento mori painting dating to the late 1700s painted in gouache on parchment, depicting a skull, candlestick and hourglass atop a table. 

The text has been highlighted with gold leaf and reads: “Remember Well:Learn from Death to despise Life;As it is a false good, Death is not evil.You must even love its dreadful Copy,For one day you will make the Original.”)

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18th Century Hand-Painted Death Notice.
Hand-painted announcement of the death, at age 99, of Victoire Lansiarre, the Abbess of the Cistercian Monastery of Notre-Dame du Verger in the Diocese of Cambrai in France. Paper decorated in gouache with a skull and crossbones along with two coats of arms, with the text:

“The times are new, the shape of the word changes without end, the dead and the living are continually replacing and succeeding one another; nothing lasts, everything changes, everything wears out, everything leaves. Only God Himself remains. / On March 3 in the year 1791, with the Sacraments of the Church, died the respectable lady Madame Victoire Lanfiarre, Abbesse du Verger for 37 years. She was in the ninety-ninth year of her life, and seventy-sixth of her religious profession. Rest

08/01/2026

OPEN SATURDAYS 1-7 and BY APPOINTMENT. This summer and fall, “B” Dry Goods is excited to present KILLERS, a wide-ranging two-part exhibition bound to be one of the most controversial NYC gallery shows of the year. KILLERS: Memento Mori, is on view from July 10th through September 26th, 2026.

07/20/2026

Catalogue up on the Schubertiade site now! Lots of great pieces- music, art, literature! Check it out at www.SchubertiadeMusic.com

Thanks to everyone who came put to celebrate the opening of KILLERS I last night! Show is open through September and we ...
07/11/2026

Thanks to everyone who came put to celebrate the opening of KILLERS I last night! Show is open through September and we are open Saturdays 1-7 and by appointment.

07/07/2026

This summer and fall, “B” Dry Goods is excited to present KILLERS, a wide-ranging two-part exhibition bound to be one of the most controversial NYC gallery shows of the year. KILLERS: Memento Mori, is on view from July 10th through September 26th, 2026. Opening reception: July 10, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

This summer and fall, “B” Dry Goods is excited to present KILLERS, a wide-ranging two-part exhibition bound to be one of...
06/26/2026

This summer and fall, “B” Dry Goods is excited to present KILLERS, a wide-ranging two-part exhibition bound to be one of the most controversial NYC gallery shows of the year. KILLERS: Memento Mori, is on view from July 10th through September 26th, 2026. Opening reception: July 10, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

According to a well-known anecdote, a German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist “chaos” of the painting, asked Picasso: “Did you do this?” Picasso calmly replied: “No, you did this!”

Oppression and violence are nothing new to America. And, of course, many artists - in particular those from marginalized and/or brutalized communities - have long grappled in their work with these awful forces. In the terrifying moment in which our nation now finds itself, we find renewed urgency to this project.

This 2-part exhibition explores the large twin themes of violence and death, both fertile realms for artists past and present. In some cases, they are related, in others, possibly not, but it is the burden of the art in this exhibition to probe the connections. Is all art at bottom an effort to explain, fend off or come to terms with death; to commemorate, or communicate with, the dead; or to defy death by making something that lives on? The works assembled here embody the ongoing preoccupation of artists with some of the irresolvable mysteries that stir them to make art.

Can art that seethes with intensity, opening up very dark corners of our common experience, somehow seem appealing? Is the by now familiar determination to provoke or astonish necessarily at odds with the determination to produce an aesthetically impressive artifact? Our conviction is that the works we’ve assembled for our exhibition do justice to these concerns.
CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….

Please join us TOMORROW SATURDAY for the final day of  Spanking the Queen, selections from two recent bodies of work by ...
06/20/2026

Please join us TOMORROW SATURDAY for the final day of  Spanking the Queen, selections from two recent bodies of work by Brooklyn-based artist Shura Skaya Shura Skaya (AKA Shura Chernozatonskaya). 
 
Spanking The Queen is on view May 29 - June 20, 2026 with public hours Saturday 1-7pm and by appointment.

Continued from previous show post essay…

Likewise, this inherent tension is encountered in the grouping of small format paintings on porcelain which constitute the other body of Skaya’s work presented here. The smooth surfaces are unforgiving and the paint must be applied quickly and without hesitation. The speed is visible, and inherent in the painted surfaces is the sense that they could somehow be wiped clean. The paint is fixed, baked in, but looks still wet, fragile, susceptible to revision or erasure. Paintings which in substance and form assert themselves with mastery, but which at the same time, double back and question themselves, coyly, with a smile. 

Shown here are:

The Sower (after Van Gogh), 2025. 6”x 6” (7) Mixed media on porcelain

Nursery for Grownups, 2025. 6”x 6” (4) Mixed media on porcelain

Dream Horses, 2025. 8”x 24” (2) Mixed media on porcelain

Monkeys 1-7, 2025. 6”x 6” (7) Mixed media

Liquid Steps 1-3, 2025. 6”x 6” (3) Mixed media on porcelain

Shura Skaya Spanking The Queen is on view May 29 - June 20, 2026 with public hours Saturdays 1-7pm and by appointment.In...
06/13/2026

Shura Skaya Spanking The Queen is on view May 29 - June 20, 2026 with public hours Saturdays 1-7pm and by appointment.

In these bold and colorful works, Shura Skaya asserts she is both magician and even, clown. Indeed, the artist has played explicitly at the clown role in some of her strange - often funny, haunting, unclassifiable - short films.  There, as in the present paintings, there is indeed something of the enduring Russian love affair with the circus, harkening back to the 11th century of the skomorokh, a kind of wandering minstrel-cum-clown which would dance, sing, conjure tricks and perform comical scenes. But, while sometimes humorous, these works are no laughing matter: with varied subjects defying easy classification, the paintings push and pull on our hearts - like the best clowns - not merely entertaining, but exploring our humanity and contradictions. 
 
This show presents a grouping of works from her monumental rolled paintings series, 7 x 7 foot acrylic on unstretched canvases meant to be unfurled and hung from their wooden post edges. Yet despite their impressive size, they can be hidden away easily, stored, swapped out and even, perhaps, call to mind the rolled backdrop tarps of a traveling circus. Inherent in their easily-packed form is a shy, if impish, nature. But when fully exposed with their painted riots of color and gesture and bold imagery, the artist seems to thumb her nose at the very idea of quietness or modesty: “HA!” these paintings seem to proclaim. Or perhaps it is the reverse: we encounter first the impactful full view of the works and then, imagining their easy hiding away, they ask…slinking off… “well, maybe?” This playful tension between subject, form and materiality is part of the project of these works. 


Shown here:

Painting that is painting itself, 2026. 84” x 84” Acrylic on canvas

The Door, 2025. 84” x 84” Acrylic on canvas

Thank you to everyone who came out on Friday to celebrate the opening of  Spanking the Queen, selections from two recent...
06/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out on Friday to celebrate the opening of  Spanking the Queen, selections from two recent bodies of work by Brooklyn-based artist Shura Skaya (AKA Shura Chernozatonskaya). 
 
Spanking The Queen is on view May 29 - June 20, 2026 with public hours Saturdays 1-7pm and by appointment.

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