Frieze London 2013

Frieze Masters 2012. (Courtesy Lyndon Douglas/Frieze)

Here Are the 2013 Frieze London and Frieze Masters Gallery Lists

Frieze New York just ended a few days ago, Art Basel Hong Kong is coming to a close and Art Basel proper is coming up in just a few weeks. After Basel, though, it’s going to be awfully quiet on the art fair front, unless you’re in the Hamptons. But here’s some cheerful news: the gallery lists for Frieze and Frieze Masters are now out. They run Oct. 17–20 in tents in Regent’s Park in London. Frieze London will have a new design by Carmody Groarke with more spacious public areas and a new gallery layout. The Frieze Masters section of the fair will once again have Annabelle Selldorf designing its home. Read More

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Venice. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

GalleristNY and The New York Observer in Venice

With Art Basel Hong Kong winding down, the art crowd is getting ready to set sail for Venice, for the preview days of the 55th Biennale, which has been organized by New York’s Massimiliano Gioni, and the unveiling of scores of national pavilions and exhibitions and events around town. It all takes place next week, with the main show officially opening to the public on Saturday, June 1. Read More

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Morning Links: Second Volume Edition

Annie Leibovitz has been awarded Spain’s prestigious €50,000 ($64,600) Prince of Asturias award for humanities. [BBC]

Here’s The Art Newspaper‘s interview with Massimiliano Gioni. “I think of this show in Venice as the ‘second volume’ of a research project that I started at Gwangju and then carried on in numerous other shows.” [The Art Newspaper] Read More

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Jan van Eyck and Workshop Assistant, 'The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment,' ca. 1430. (Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Met’s Renovated, Reinstalled European Art Galleries Bewitch

The treasures have returned.

Today the Met officially reopened its European art galleries, the 45 rooms that sit atop its grand staircase, after three years of planning and nine months of rolling renovations and reinstallation. Twelve galleries once used for special exhibitions have been commandeered for the permanent collection, enlarging the galleries by a full third. You should pay them a visit.

Filling the immaculate spaces are some 750 paintings—”all off the wall, all looked at, all dusted,” an ebullient Keith Christiansen told a crowd of journalists in one of the opening galleries this morning. Read More