The first thing you may notice walking into Untitled, the new fair that set up this year right on the beach at 12th Street in Miami Beach, is the abundant natural light streaming through the tent’s roof. The second: it smells heavenly, of succulent grilled chicken, of pizza baking. Read More
Four wires hold this piece by Sean Kennedy high above the floor of the Untitled gallery right now, in a two-person show with Chadwick Rantanen. This photograph looks directly up through the acrylic glass that serves as the base of the work. (For some context, here’s an installation view.) Read More
Since its inception in 2009, the Dallas Art Fair, which opens today and runs through April 15, has more than doubled its size. The fair began with with 30 exhibitors and is now showing 75 national and international art dealers including some from New York, like Lisa Cooley, Untitled, Canada, Salomon Contemporary, Feature Inc. Read More
The weekend before the opening of his midcareer retrospective at MoMA PS1, which opens to the public this Sunday, the painter Henry Taylor was walking through the museum’s first-floor galleries, inspecting the boxes that had just been shipped from his studio in Los Angeles. Some canvases were already leaning against the walls and others were sealed in bubble wrap. Some were still scattered around L.A. The month before, Mr. Taylor had gone to his daughter’s mother’s house there, where he had stored a number of pieces, only to discover they had been burned and destroyed (the circumstances are foggy). At PS1, he was walking through the show with Peter Eleey and Laura Hoptman, the exhibition’s two curators, rattling off stories about his work. Read More
