Demand for tickets to tour Carol Bove’s exhibition on the northernmost stretch of the High Line have been in high demand since the seven-piece show opened on the elevated park’s still-wild section last month, so much so that its organizers are adding 20 tickets to every tour of the site between June 20 and August 2, and August 8 and September 28. (more…)
Turning his attention away from overbearing Chinese censorship, Ai Weiwei did not equivocate in his criticism of the American government, published in the Guardian earlier this week. Responding to the fallout over former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden’s divulgence of the breadth of American intelligence operations, Ai opens the piece stating that he “was shocked by the US surveillance operation, Prism.” (more…)
Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria Thomas, the popular New York yoga instructor, are set to co-chair “Some Enlightened Evening,” a gala event on October 17 in support of “Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” the Smithsonian’s first exhibition on the visual history of Yoga. (more…)
Last week, much of the “art world” was in and around Art Basel, one of the foremost international art fairs. So, without further ado, here’s a musician: Kanye West during his impromptu performance at Design Miami/Basel of tracks from his forthcoming album Yeezus. How did they swing this? (more…)
Dr. Linda S. Ferber will be stepping down from her position as vice president and director of the Museum division at the New-York Historical Society, it was announced today. Museum director, curator, and art historian Brian T. Allen will take on that role beginning in January 2014. (more…)
At lunch time today at Westminster Abbey in London, a disgruntled man spray painted over a portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. The act was allegedly a plea to the monarch for help by a member of the Fathers4Justice (F4J), a group campaigning for the rights of divorced fathers to have greater access to their children, according to Reuters. (more…)
While much of the world is still trying to figure out whether Bitcoin is a joke, a conceptual art piece, or the natural next step in globalization and interconnectivity, the artist, philosopher and physics buff Jonathon Keats has taken the concept of virtual currency further into the ether with his new installation beneath Rockefeller Center, “The Quantum Bank.” (more…)
As we mentioned last Wednesday, the maze-making artist duo of Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe have created their latest disorienting installation in Art Basel’s Unlimited section. Presented by Marlborough Chelsea and titled “Artichoke Underground,” it centers around the printmaking lab of the same-named fictional artist collective, will all type of adjoining, disjointed rooms leading fair-goers through the piece. For those of us unable to attend the fair — or lost deep inside the installation — here’s a handy walkthrough of the “Artichoke Underground.” (more…)
Though he might not have the same presence inside the fairs that he had during Art Basel in Miami last year — where he filled Jonathan Levine Gallery’s entire PULSE Miami booth — the French street artist Invader is nevertheless making his presence felt in Basel ahead of this week’s Art Basel fair. (more…)
Flipping through the new issue of Artforum last night, we came across what appears to be the first clue in Doug Aitken’s mysterious “Station to Station” project — the one we’ve been writing about in drips and drabs beginning in May. Perhaps this is why everyone from Erica Archambault, the rep at Levi’s — one of the supposed sponsors — (“Molly [Logan] is the best person to speak with directly at this point”), to Aitken’s primary gallery, 303, (the owners of which were “traveling” and never got back to us about it), to the Amtrak media rep Clifford Cole (“Checking…”), to the artists we’ve been in touch with who have claimed they were asked to participate (those at Callie Curry, aka Swoon’s, church-cum-art center “Transformazium” in Braddock, PA), or who are participating (see culinary master Alice Waters who is “consulting on the food component”) but would give no further details, have been so elusive about it: because it’s a mystery. Here’s the new information we have from this advertisement that should piece it all together. (more…)
