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. Read More

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! Read More

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.” Read More

Currently inside the Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue, up a rather dank staircase near the rows of P.O. boxes, in a corner of the building that has been unused for decades, among the stained carpets, exposed wiring and peeling wallpaper, there is a very trendy group show, curated by the art critic David Rimanelli and presented by Vito Schnabel. The show is open until June 4, and it’s the last time the space will be open before the building is renovated to become part of the new Penn Station. Read More

One of the more imposing sights at Frieze is the cement mixer at the booth of New York’s CRG Gallery. It’s a found object by the Brazilian artist Alexandre Da Cunha, which he painted red, white and blue and carved a kind of skylight hole into the top of. It looks something like a very large circus cannon. The piece rests on two massive blocks of wood, and it’s so heavy that the floors had to be reinforced. Read More

Walking into the booth of Cheim & Read at Frieze New York, one could see a print of Lynda Benglis’s famous 1974 Artforum ad–the one with the double-sided dildo–leaning against a wall. It’s for sale as part of a portfolio of nine images by the artist, but if you want to buy it you have to ask. A gallery employee moved it into a storage room this morning. The whole set is available for $25,000. Read More

People were smoking in the Met at the Costume Institute gala! Call the police! [NYT]

“An artist from the Czech Republic has received £20,000 for winning a self-portrait competition.” [BBC]

Here’s a Paul McCarthy being installed in the rain at Frieze. [NYT]

Liz Glynn made a speakeasy in the Frieze tent. Read More

The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art’s First Awards, held at the Brooklyn Museum in June, will honor director Julie Taymor. Read More

The curator Jens Hoffmann has been named a senior adjunct curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He will curate “the museum’s major exhibitions,” according to the Detroit Free Press, as well as retain his current post as deputy director at New York’s Jewish Museum. (“He’ll commute to Detroit,” writes the Free Press.) Read More