The 2013 edition of the Lyon Biennale, titled “Meanwhile, Suddenly…And then,” brings together 52 artists — including Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, Dan Colen, Yoko Ono, Tom Sachs, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation — engaged in the exploration of storytelling. When the 12th Lyon Biennale opens in September, visitors will see that pride of place has been given to those artists who used ingenuity to undo “mainstream narrative codes.” Continue Reading
Glafira Rosales, a Long Island art dealer at the center of a scandal involving sales of purported fake paintings by Abstract Expressionist masters, was arrested in Long Island today and charged with filing false tax returns and failing to disclose a foreign bank account to the Internal Revenue Service. The charges were announced by U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, Toni Weinrauch, special agent in charge of the New York field office of the IRS criminal investigation division, and George Venizelos, the assistant director of the FBI’s New York office. Continue Reading
Internet-famous critic/artist Hennessy Youngman has finally dropped his much-anticipated sequel to the virally popular “CVS Bangers.” Continue Reading
While the Whitney Museum won’t move into its new Renzo Piano-designed home in the Meatpacking District for another two years, the museum is beginning its pre-move makeover with a new graphic identity debuted today on the museum’s website. The new, sparse design, by the Dutch design firm Experimental Jetset, replaces the museum’s previous identity, designed by Pentagram’s Abbott Miller in 2000. Continue Reading
Artists! Are you tired of making work fettered by all the rules of normal physics and conventional logic? Well then have I got an art contest for you! From now through June 12, denizens of the new-ish virtual universe of Cloud Party can sign up to compete to build the best work of art. The contest organizers have pledged $1,000 to the victor, and yours truly has signed on to both judge the contest and — as an added bonus — write an essay about the winner. Continue Reading
Though Frieze Week didn’t prove to be the bonanza of Art World Missed Connections we had hoped for — quite the contrary, in fact — we’re back on track this week with two items, one pertaining to a glitzy museum event on the Upper East Side, the other unfolding at an opening way Downtown. Let’s start off with the latter, which involves a young man who was not a fan of Joe Bradley’s new show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. Continue Reading
San Francisco’s foremost art museum is doing its best to get on a likely competitor’s good side. At an October 24 dinner ceremony SFMOMA will give George Lucas — whose plan to build the billion-dollar Lucas Cultural Arts Museum celebrating “the art of storytelling” in the city’s Presidio Park is one of three shortlisted proposals — its 2013 Bay Area Treasure Award. The prize, which is bestowed annually by SFMOMA’s foremost fund-raising affiliate, the Modern Art Council (MAC), recognizes visual art pioneers based in the Bay Area. Continue Reading
Since 1977 city of Pittsburgh has had a provision on the books that sets aside one percent of any municipal renovation or construction project with a budget of more than $50,000 for the commissioning of public art and in 2005 Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, passed a similar edict calling for 2 percent of projects’ budgets to go toward public art, but neither city nor county has been enforcing those provisions. Now a group of artists and construction workers are calling for closer scrutiny to ensure that those public art funds are actually spent. Continue Reading
On Friday Bob Dylan will celebrate his 72nd birthday, and to mark the occasion the Worcester Art Museum, whose current exhibition “Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation” features images of the beloved rocker (see above), will offer free admission to any and all visitors who arrive dressed as Dylan. Continue Reading
Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute recently suffered a major loss when its Main Building went up in flames, destroying studios and students’ work, which might explain why the art school’s students are now fighting to safeguard another of their Clinton Hill campus’s distinctive features: Its many, many stray cats. Continue Reading
