This is what I wrote to GH about our walk around Chelsea: 

Oh, and Rachel Whiteread at Luring Augustine. Although I thought she was kind of coasting by having so many pieces It's a good direction for her work to go. So a thumbs up to Rachel.

Don't forget the Jakob Kolding show at Team about "Contesting Architecture and Social Space". I think we could both agree that it was as close to art as we got. And the show at Mary Boone with the mirror floor. Both were definitely thumbs up.

I'd still give the Michal Rovner show at Pace a thumbs up though I thought it was over done and the "paintings" were uninteresting. Gada Amer at Gagossian, I've decided, was a thumbs down. The most interesting thing about it is that she's an Egyptian muslim woman doing porno imagery in an unexpected way but, in the end, she doesn't do much with it other than be (admittedly) beautifully decorative. That's one reason I was drawn to the smaller works in the back gallery was that they did show some other direction.

Roxy Paine at James Cohan was sort of a thumbs horizontal. I like what he does and he did it well in this show but it was, as you say, about the production and not engaging enough.

I don't remember what else we saw. That hallway with the signs was probably the most interesting, and the found art.

My major criticism about both Rovner and Amer is that the work seemed "over-scaled". Small work that was blown up -- something both Pace and Gagossian have been doing lately. What I liked most about Whiteread at Luring Augustine is that the work was on a small scale, especially compared to her past work.