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"Special Focus: Reviews Marathon, New York" by Jonathan T.D. Neil

Recently ArtReview has been staring at its growing pile of press releases and wondering: "Is it possible to see (almost) everything?" So this month it forced four NYC reviewers to each review 26 show in the space of a week....

The cowboy thematic, which Kozul uses to good effect... is a popular one, though its iconic status has been sullied by the political climate in the US, the duelling sides of which always seem to be looking for ways to out-America one another. And viewed from this perspective, it cecomes eaiser to read the cynicism of Kozul's gesture.

JAVIER PINON, in contrast, seems to have managed to keep that icon from devolving into a punchline or a photo-op, but that is because Piñón has never thought of the character of the cowboy strictly within the vernacular of the American West. The artist's most recent series of collage pieces at ZieherSmith reimagines the cowboy as any kind of mythic hero, from Perseue to Don Quixote. The latter serves as the titled character of the show, and Piñón's depictions of the imaginary knight preparing to do battle with century-old windmills look like illusttrations out of a new fantasy bestseller that has yet to be written.