The Armory Show announced today that Liz Magic Laser has been chosen as the commissioned artist for its 2013 fair, tasked with creating the event’s visual identity. Reached by e-mail, Ms. Laser gave Gallerist a few more details about what she has planned. Read More
The Observer has learned that Paul Morris, founding director of the Armory Show and, for the past five years, vice president of art shows and events for Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., owner of the Armory Show, is resigning his position.
Reached for comment by phone, Mr. Morris confirmed the news and said that he is “really proud about the great programming” he has recently helped put in place at the Armory, particularly the “Focus” sections and the selection each year of an emerging artist to make an editioned artwork for charity (Theaster Gates last year), but that he “felt it was time for me to move on,” and characterized this as “a personal decision.” Read More
If you caught New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl scribbling notes at the Armory Show this past March, you may have wondered what he was up to. Read More
Late last year, former Armory Show director Katelijne De Backer joined Lehmann Maupin as a managing director, according to a story on Blouin Artinfo this morning.
Ms. De Backer left the show last October after 11 years of shaping the program. She was replaced by Noah Horowitz, and scooped up by Lehmann Maupin in Read More
More than 60,000 people visited the Armory Show last week, according to a wrap-up press release. Read More
This week, Gallerist had all kinds of fun. Beginning at the piers for the Armory, we continued on to the Independent in Chelsea and then the Dependent Art Fair at the Comfort Inn on Ludlow Street, where hordes of people crammed into tiny hotel rooms to catch sight of all the ways emerging galleries made Read More
Asked to define the state of the art world, and the culture at large, during a panel discussion at the Armory Show on Saturday afternoon, the art advisor Todd Levin looked pained. He took off his glasses and thought for a few moments as he rubbed his eyes.
“I feel very much in a certain way what Mahler must have felt in 1908, embarking on the last movement of the Ninth Symphony,” Mr. Levin said, during his answer. “A feeling of an end of a number of things, not only the end of tonality in the music he was writing, but the end of nature, an end to, sort of, societal manners. They were reaching a breaking point and something was going to happen.” Amid the brisk business reportedly taking place in the fair next door, it was a sobering comment. Read More
“SCANDINAVIAN PAIN,” reads a neon pink sign hanging over the main champagne bar in Pier 94, along the Hudson River, at the 2012 Armory Show. It’s a work by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, and it sold before the fair even opened to Stockholm’s Moderna Museet. (Daniel Birnbaum: always one step ahead of the game.) Read More
Armory Week has arrived in New York and our thoughts have turned to art fairs. Ever wondered what the most popular art fair is, as judged by visitor numbers? Our first guess: TEFAF, which runs for 10 days each year in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Though it’s probably the most prestigious, we were wrong. Art Basel? For contemporary art it’s the fanciest, but again no. Read More
