By Sasha Herman 5/16/12 6:02pm

Q&A

Rick Moody. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan Company)

Rick Moody on His ‘Undependable Global Positioning System’

During Frieze New York, VIPs given access to the fair’s courtesy BMWs had a chance to hear a sound piece by Rick Moody called The Undependable Global Positioning System inside the fair which is pretty much what its title suggests: a robotic voice—similar to one that would provide directions on a GPS system—reciting the text of Mr. Moody’s story of the same name, which features rather unreliable navigational aids.

The work imagines what would happen if a GPS system had human flaws: the UGPS is not only spatially lost but existentially lost as well. Moreover, Mr. Moody’s humorous work bemoans the condition of our “rushed digital life” in which the experience of being lost is, well, being lost. The project is still in development, but right now it has its own website, which features a preview of an application that might become a more elaborate UGPS. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 2/17/12 9:40am

blogs

A screenshot of the Carnegie International's blog. (Courtesy CI)

The 2013 Carnegie International Curators Have a Blog, and It’s Pretty Great

“I probably can’t persuade you to drop everything, including 300 or so bucks on transportation, and spend an afternoon in Pittsburgh, but maybe I can make you feel bad about not doing so,” critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote back in 1988, reviewing the Carnegie International, the grand survey of contemporary art founded back in 1896 by Andrew Carnegie that used to run every three years and now comes about every five. Read More

By Sarah Douglas 9:32am

Art Fairs

armory

Exclusive: Armory Show 2012 Exhibitor List

Yesterday, the Armory Show, New York’s 14-year-old annual contemporary art fair, held every March on two piers on the West Side, announced that, as in years past, it would do its annual fundraiser with the Museum of Modern Art. But, as many art world observers noted, there was something missing: the fair had not yet released an exhibitor list. Last year, the list was released on Jan. 11. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 12/09/11 1:20pm

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

Frieze Miami Beach

Frieze Miami Beach

“Have you been to Frieze?” a colleague asked us last week in the aisles of the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair.

Gallerist paused, confused. We knew about Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA, Seven, Art Miami, Pulse, Scope and about a dozen other art fairs. But we had no idea that London’s Frieze Art Fair, Read More

By GalleristNY 10/14/11 8:49am

links

"Girl with Ice Cream Cone" (1963) by Wayne Thiebaud.

Morning Links: Frieze and Wayne Thiebaud Edition

The Guggenheim plans a massive, black-and-white-themed Picasso show for next year, and Acquavella Galleries (whose Braque show we profiled in the paper this week) now represents Wayne Thiebaud. [Inside Art]

Protestors flew to London to protest at Sotheby’s during yesterday’s contemporary art auctions. The sale made $63 million, with a few paintings, including a £2 million Peter Doig, going unsold. [Bloomberg]

The Art Newspaper helpfully points out the dirtiest things at Frieze. New York’s Ramiken Crucible gallery brought a semen-covered sculpture by Andra Ursuta. [The Art Newspaper] Read More