(Courtesy poestories.com)

The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore will reopen in October. The museum closed in September 2012 due to lack of funding. The new museum will focus on the story of Poe in Baltimore, as well as on the house itself.

More from the Huffington Post:

Ann Barton Brown, one of two museum consultants hired to recommend a plan for interpreting the Poe house for visitors, said the assignment proved a welcome challenge.

"We are trying to preserve as much of the spirit of Poe in the house as possible," she said, "so when you go in, you really feel Poe." The narrative, she said, will also talk about what Baltimore was like while Poe was living here.

(Courtesy beyoncearthistory.tumblr.com via The Guardian)

A look inside the Nahmad family. [NYT]

A little late to this, but worth a listen: fashion-trend forecasters say that Dubai and Frank Stella are hot. [NPR Planet Money]

Here are some obscure Dalí watercolors of rather erotic fruits. [The Guardian]

Thomas M. Messer, a pioneering director of the Guggenheim, has died at 93. “He brought an old-world charm and values to an American institution,” said Lisa Dennison. [NYT]

Here's a preview of Art Basel Hong Kong. [WSJ]

Beyoncé as art historian. [The Guardian]

New York artist takes photographs of his neighbors without them knowing, sells photographs in gallery. [Detroit News]

Mark di Suvero. (Courtesy nga.gov)

The sculptor Mark di Suvero was awarded a gold medal by the American Academy of Art and Letters at a ceremony at the academy's headquarters last night.

He joins some good company: the novelist E.L. Doctorow was also awarded a gold medal, and three new members were inducted into the elite group--Richard Tuttle, Terry Winters and Ward Just. Bob Dylan was also named an honorary member (the academy couldn't decide whether to honor him for songwriting or music; presumably, his other role as a painter was not a consideration).

Mr. Dylan, according to Rolling Stone, did not show up at the ceremony, which had a keynote address delivered by the writer Michael Chabon.

(Courtesy pbs.org)

Artist Tracey Emin: Critics Are Harsher Because I’m a Woman [Vanity Fair]

"Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country’s ancient temples." [NYT]

Picasso Museum in Paris remains closed. [NYT]

Anish Kapoor talks about his latest exhibition. [The Guardian]

Interpol seeks art work owned by the Qaddafi family. [The Art Newspaper]

Gary Indiana on Havana. (Subscription only) [The London Review of Books]

The latest on the Palestinian Museum. [Artforum]

Mayan pyramid bulldozed in Belize. [AP/Yahoo]

Baselitz. (Courtesy Getty Images)

A bit of news that was overlooked last week due to art fair frenzy: Georg Baselitz, the esteemed painter and cranky misanthrope, had his home in Bavaria raided by tax authorities. Der Spiegel reports that it's "likely that Baselitz had been given advance warning" of the raid, and was on his way to his property on the Ligurian Coast in Italy when investigators arrived.

More from Der Spiegel:

"The artist's name appeared on a list of clients with the Swiss bank UBS, which was on a CD containing data on secret bank accounts bought by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia last summer. Despite widespread media coverage of this purchase, Baselitz did not turn himself in to the tax authority -- unlike the president of football club Bayern Munich, Uli Hoeness, who admitted to tax evasion in April. The bank itself has urged clients to "actively resolve their tax problems," if need be...In response to a SPIEGEL inquiry, Baselitz said via his secretary that he does not owe millions of euros in taxes and that there is no arrest warrant against him. He did not, however, deny that an investigation is underway, nor did he deny having now settled his tax debt."

Opening: Dena Yago at Malraux's Place
I have never been to an opening at Sebastian Black's studio, but cannot fault his taste. I have to miss this one tonight because of the Leonardo DiCaprio auction, but if I didn't have that I'd go in a second. Photo courtesy of Art Observed. —Dan Duray
Malraux's Place, 253 36th Street (Sixth floor), Brooklyn, 7–9 p.m.

TUESDAY, MAY 14

Memorial: "Daniel Reich: Believer" at Abrons Arts Center
NADA hosts a gathering in honor of the late art dealer Daniel Reich, who passed away in December. —Michael H. Miller
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, 4-7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15

Opening: Dan Colen, "The spirits that I called," at Oko
There's not exactly a shortage of Disney-related art in town, what with Paul McCarthy's immense Snow White sculptures at Hauser & Wirth, but a little more can't hurt. According to the gallery's announcement, Dan Colen's new Fantasia-inspired oil paintings depict "non-figurative and relatively empty landscapes that quote the movie's overwrought visual elements of magic and fantasy. —Zoë Lescaze
Oko, 22 East 10th Street, New York, 8-10 p.m. 

Reading: "A Guerilla Reading by Alex Ross" at the Museum of Modern Art
Every Wednesday, writers have been reading pieces they wrote in response to work in MoMA at the invitation of Kenneth Goldsmith, the museum's first poet laureate. This week it's New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. What, we wonder, did the The Rest Is Noise author choose to write about? A Kandinsky composition? Picasso's Three Musicians (1921)? Something a little less obvious, perhaps? Looking forward to finding out. —Z.L.
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, 12:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, MAY 16

Opening: "Rebind" at Eyebeam
Portland, Oreg.'s enterprising Publication Studio imprint is setting up camp in Eyebeam's bookstore for one week and organizing a variety of projects. For its "Rebind" exhibition, Publication Studio asked 42 artists to design unique covers for "iconic paperback books." It's a nice lineup of people! Among the participants are Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Amy Yao, B. Wurtz, Zak Kitnick, Ruby Sky Stiler and Oscar Tuazon. —Andrew Russeth
Eyebeam, 540 West 21st Street, New York, 6–9 p.m.

FRIDAY, MAY 17

Talk: Suhail Malik at Artists Space Books & Talks
Mr. Malik presents the next installment in his talk series at Artists Space, "On the Necessity of Art's Exit from Contemporary Art." This one concerns: "The problem with contemporary art is not the contemporary." —D.D.
Artists Space Books & Talks, 55 Walker Street, New York, 7 p.m. $5

Talk: Call & Response III: The Political Aesthetic
Part of a series of talks for the 20th anniversary of the Vera List Center. This is an all-day thing, but the talk I selected seems like it might interest our readers. Participants: Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy, The New School; Julie Mehretu, artist, New York; Joao Ribas, Curator, MIT List Center; Martha Rosler, artist, Vera List Center Advisory Committee member, New York. Moderated by David Joselit, Professor, Art History, Yale University. —D.D.
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York, 2:30-4 p.m.

Opening: Joe Bradley, "Lotus Eaters," at Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Wondering what Joe Bradley has cooked up this time? Let's find out together. —A.R.
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 620 Greenwich Street, New York, 6–8 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 18

Screening: Stan Brakhage at AFA
Anthology will screen six of Brakhage's early films from the 1950s, including Reflections on Black (1955) and Flesh of Morning (1956). Additional Brakhage screenings are scheduled through the month. —A.R.
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, 3:45 p.m., $10

Benefit: 2013 White Columns Benefit + Auction
White Columns will hold its annual benefit, featuring work by more than 90 contemporary artists, including Alex Katz, Amanda Ross-Ho, Andrea Bowers, Elizabeth Peyton, Ryan Foerster and Wade Guyton. —M.H.M.
White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, New York, 7 p.m., tickets required, to purchase call 212-924-4212 

Justin Lieberman, part of 'Super Supplementals' series. (Photo by Zoe Lescaze)

It's rare to see an artist at his dealer's booth at an art fair. Most don't like to witness the mercantile--or, as one artist put it, "shopping mall"--side of the business. But at NADA, the booth of Jose Martos was practically swarming with artists.

Mr. Martos was giving a tour of his booth, pointing out works.

"This is a Justin Lieberman painting," he said, "and this is Justin Lieberman." The artist, bald and bearded with round spectacles, was standing in front of his work, clutching a newspaper. He chuckled jovially and offered his hand.

"This is the 12th or 13th one I've done in a series I call 'Super Supplementals.' It's supplemental material from shows of mine going back, like, 15 years. This is the first installation drawing from my first show in Boston in 1994," he said, pointing to a corner of the canvas, which was a mannered collage of notes and scribbles. "I'm really bad at keeping my own archive," he continued. "This is my way of keeping my archive preserved."

Asked if he liked seeing his work on display at an art fair, Mr. Lieberman said, "It's not the best context for art to be shown." He glanced over at another work, a dark black canvas hanging on another wall of the booth. "But this is by my friend Robert Janitz." Robert Janitz appeared in the booth, as if materializing upon the mention of his name. (Not kidding.) He smiled meekly. "He does a lot of different kinds of painting, but at art fairs, he only shows black paintings. All these refusals and negations, they have to take place in public."

A slight pause.

"See, I'm a communist," Mr. Lieberman said. He pulled out a red book from underneath his arm--The Communist Postscript by Boris Groys. ("It's O.K.," he said, adding that it deals with Stalin "intelligently.")

He continued, "This sort of place here is not a place where you can affirm that. If you want to be a communist, you have to build up that infrastructure from scratch. There's two kinds of negation in art, and you have to pick one. One is you infinitely try to keep up with your own market. The other is quit making art."

(Photo by Zoe Lescaze)

Daniel Reich, the art dealer who passed away on Christmas Day last year, was an early member of NADA, and many of the organization's current members credit him with bringing them aboard. At the NADA New York fair, there's a booth dedicated to him, with a notebook racking up numerous notes and signatures, and a portrait of Mr. Reich by the artist Henry Taylor. The painting belongs to the artist Christian Holstad, and the goal, said Heather Hubbs, the fair's director, is to have it donated to the Museum of Modern Art.

"I wouldn't be with NADA if it wasn't for Daniel," Ms. Hubbs said. The organization will hold a memorial service for Mr. Reich on May 14 at the Abrons Arts Center.

Recently, she was talking with Paul P., one of the artists Mr. Reich represented at his gallery, who wrote a eulogy for his dealer that is also on display in the booth.

"We were sharing all these stories," Ms. Hubbs said. "And he told me about hanging this show at the gallery. And Daniel said about one of the works, 'No it has to look like a mistake. But it has to look like a mistake from the '90s.' That was very Daniel."

As for the fair's new location at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side--it was held at the Dia Center for the Arts building in Chelsea last year--Ms. Hubbs said she had initially considered the space, but it was under renovation. It happens to be just around the corner from Ms. Hubbs's apartment, as well as nearby many of the exhibiting LES galleries. Asked how she felt about the fair returning during Frieze Week in New York, she said she was happy to be back, but added, "It seems like there's still a pull from the Armory, like March and May are still trying to sort each other out."

Alex Da Corte, 'Head.' (Photo by Zoe Lescaze)

The New Art Dealers Alliance's New York fair is held this year at Pier 36 off of South Street on the Lower East Side--"Basketball City," a facility that houses seven basketball courts. (For the fair, they're covered in carpet.) There are big scoreboards lining the walls, and basketball hoops with glass backboards attached to the ceiling. At the booth of dealer Joe Sheftel, the artist Alex Da Corte has installed a wall of Nike neon-colored basketball sneakers. How appropriate!

"It's Basketball City," said Mr. Sheftel. "You gotta show your kicks."

Many of the shoes come from Nike's Black History Month line, which have a retail price of about $150. The piece, which displays the shoes on a fence-like grid, treats the shoes like little sculptures. It also includes a painted bottle of Axe body spray and the artist Hennessy Youngman's hat (Mr. Da Corte covered it in sequins). It's for sale for $13,000.

Mr. Sheftel said he tried to find a pair of Nike BHMs to wear at the fair, but couldn't find any in his size.

"There's like an art-fair element to sneakers," he said. "There's like a secondary market. You basically need an advisor."

Jack Early, "WWJD." (Courtesy Fergus McCaffrey Fine Art)

You can hear the booth of Fergus McCaffrey at Frieze before you actually see it. Installed are several works by Jack Early, an artist who had great success in the late '80s before placing himself in an exile from which he has only recently emerged, appearing in shows at Brooklyn's Southfirst Gallery. On view was Jack Early's Ear Candy Machine, a glistening white phonograph with a speaker inside of the horn blasting music, resting in a black-lit room with a streak of rainbow paint on the floor. Elsewhere, there were cut-out sculptures of Yoko Ono, and one of Paul McCartney with a sign that read, "JOHN IS THE ONE THAT IS DEAD ACTUALLY."

"It's this wonderful mix of redemption, which of course Americans love, and sincerity mixed with mischievousness," Mr. McCaffrey said.

In another section of the booth, a crucifix (composed of light boxes) hung on a wall, emblazoned with the image of Christ--from the Broadway production Godspell. The room--called WWJD, which is for sale as a complete installation for $70,000--was painted light blue, and covered with plush clouds. Out of an iPod, hooked up to speakers, a composition by Mr. Early was playing loudly. It's called "Hey Jesus" and Mr. McCaffrey described it as "kind of a Led Zeppelin 24-minute guitar solo, which he's singing along to." ("The optimism is infectious," he added.)

Instead of the usual formal uniform worn by dealers at fairs, Mr. McCaffrey was wearing a T-shirt with the song's lyrics printed on it:

Hey Jesus

Will you make me lose my mind?

I've heard the angels sing while the devil

Bides his time