Hennessy Youngman Participates Any One Who Can Bring Their Art Work to the “Family Business” Gallery

by Esfand Khoram

The online art critic and satirist, Hennessy Youngman (who runs this Youtube channel) invites any one –and he means any one– who can bring their art down to Family Business in Chelsea, New York to participate in upcoming exhibition “ITSA SMALL, SMALL WORLD.” Watch the video call below.

Family Business is the latest side project for the two art-world figures Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni, the site opened up last month with an exhibition curated by veteran painter Marilyn Minter during which she asked Hennessy Youngman to contribute to the next exhibition. He then deferred the work to the Internet users, as he notes, as a way of “giving back to/and thanking the internet for supporting and watching my shit.”

In Hennessy Youngman’s own words he is accepting among other pieces “big ass paintings, little ass paintings, bullshit ass Instagram photos, embarrassing poems, and a piece of art your boyfriend made you because he was too cheap to get your a real gift.”

The exhibition opens at Family Business at 520 W 21st Street in Chelsea, New York on Tuesday, April 3rd, at 6pm through April 16th. Youngman will be on site accepting artwork between March 30 and April 1 from 10am to 7pm.