Kathryn Andrews at KÖNIG GALERIE

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The postmodern philosopher said America needed Disneyland to prove the rest the country isn't already. The world already feels like a cartoon, making one within it feels redundant, painfully. Maybe the best thing about Andrews is that, like John Miller or Armleder the work is as off-putting as the culture it draws from is. We just need to admit the pain, that this isn't fun.

Kathryn Andrews at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

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I'm not so sure that the lip-service paid to warding off Koons as an aesthetic terrorist was anything more than fearful attempt at repression for the thing we all secretly loved, the shiny commodified surface. Keeping coming back to us.  Now in present form. The "inanimate demons" of Koons's "gangbanging" of us is made further vaporus and spectral here.