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 May Artforum has arrived, and it is a thick one! The ads this month are very, very strong, perhaps as a result of galleries angling for attention during the busy month to come, with Frieze New York and Art Basel Hong Kong on tap, and Art Basel proper not too far off. Tom Holert writes 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
MONDAY, MAY 6
Opening: Carissa Rodriguez, “La Collectionneuse,” at Front Desk Apparatus
After spending years lusting for Carissa Rodriguez’s work through jpegs (especially of her 2012 solo show at Zurich’s Karma International gallery), I am happy to report that she is having a show at Front Desk’s stately space. If you haven’t seen her Read More
The Los Angeles–based artist Sam Falls is now represented by Metro Pictures gallery in New York. The gallery confirmed the news on the phone and has added him to their artist roster on their website. Metro Pictures does not yet have a solo show planned, but Mr. Falls will be included in a group show there in June. He will be jointly-represented by American Contemporary in New York. Read More
Christie’s June 5 Old Master sale in New York will be led by Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Duet, “a significant work with an exceptionally distinguished Russian provenance, which includes the collection of Count Alexander Stroganov, art advisor to Catherine the Great, as well as the Hermitage Museum,” according to a release. It was also looted Read More
MoMA’s Party in the Garden will honor Mayor Bloomberg. [The Art Newspaper]
Van Gogh’s paintings used to be brighter. [The Guardian]
On the Folk Art Museum: “MoMA’s plan can hardly be a surprise, because its entire history since 1937 is based on demolishing potential landmarks.” [NYT]
Here’s a list of some people Read More
The lyrics for an unreleased Bob Dylan song, “Go Away You Bomb,” will be auctioned at Christie’s on June 26. The song, according to Rolling Stone, was written by Mr. Dylan for Izzy Young of the Greenwich Village Folklore Center in 1963. The lyrics sat in a drawer in Mr. Young’s house in Stockholm Read More
Felix Salmon on “the tragedy of Cooper Union.” [Reuters]
MOCA architecture show may be canceled. [LAT]
Here’s Tavares Strachen on his Venice project. [Art Review]
“A collector of Old Masters says that a painting he bought from Sotheby’s in 2004 is now worthless because it was once owned by the war criminal Hermann Read More
