Merchandise Mart Cancels Art Chicago Fair; Lots of Faces, but No Sales
Fair organizers Merchandise Mart have cancelled the Next Art Chicago fair for scheduled to run April 27-29, 2012, citing poor sales and an attendant failure to attract top-flight galleries, reports Shia Kapos in her Chicago Business blog. MM will continue its art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Basel, as well as its [...]
Proposed Christo Fabric Piece Sparks Colorado Controversy
Over the River, (not “over the hill”) a canyon-spanning fabric awning planned to begin construction over the Arkansas River in southern Colorado has sparked protest and turmoil; project boosters see great art, economic opportunity, and tourism, rustics want to be left alone.
Art Narc: Vildelife
My former landlord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a sphinx-like Teutonic manchild who sublet me one of the ad-hoc drywall sleeping lofts in the colossal warehouse he leased near the Bedford Avenue subway stop—still owes me $1200. It was my security deposit from 2008 and I don’t expect to get it back. I don’t mean this story as revenge [...]
CORE Fellowship Applications Open: Submit by April Fool’s for Your Prestigious Residency!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Glassell School of Art is again looking for a new crop of CORE Fellows for its ever-more-prestigious residency program. Residents receive a stipend, health insurance, and private studio/office space for nine months, all the while engaging in ongoing dialogue with each other and with pre-eminent artists, critics, curators, and [...]
Seminal Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley Found Dead at 57, Apparently A Suicide
Mike Kelley, a major figure in the “pathetic aesthetic” of the 1990′s was found dead in his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday night by police, called in by a family friend. Beginning in 1993 with his widely influential show Catholic Tastes at the Whitney, Kelley’s conglomerations of stuffed animals, pop-punk banners and oddball sculptural [...]
Deutsche Bank’s Frieze New York 2012: Projects Announced
Frieze Art Fair, scheduled for May 4-7, 2012 on Randall’s Island, Manhattan, has announced the names of eight artists commissioned to create pieces for the inaugural show. John Ahearn, Uri Aran, Latifa Echakhch, Joel Kyack, Rick Moody, Virginia Overton, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and Ulla von Brandenburg will create pieces, the majority of which will [...]
