Morning Links: Fair Roundup
by Art Fag City on May 9, 2012 ·
- No one does an art fair like Karen Archey: Her writeup on Rhizome hits a bunch of our favorites, starting with the Carissa Rodriguez – Pamela Rosenkranz pairing at Karma International and the Oliver Laric – Aleksandra Domanovic booth from Tanya Leighton. [Rhizome]
- We also love Nicholas O’Brien’s eye over at Bad at Sports. We’ve pointed this out before, but Ben Schumacher is having a great year. [Bad at Sports]
- Holland Cotter thinks Frieze is a standard art fair that’s a bit cooler than most. [NYTimes]
- Karen Rosenberg describes the work at NADA as “not particularly representative of the work you might see during a stroll through the Lower East Side or Chelsea”, on account of there being “plenty of painting and sculpture, less post-medium sprawl.” We don’t get it. The stress on painting is par for the course for art fairs, and our complaint was that many of our favorite galleries brought work we’d seen before. [NYTimes]
- In only vaguely art fair-related news: buy up your powdered dead baby pills now, because China and South Korea are cracking down. [BBC]
- Sasha Frere-Jones’s piece in The New Yorker about Adam Yauch is beautiful. It describes Yauch, but it also outlines what can’t be communicated about the New York he (and Frere-Jones) came from. [The New Yorker]
- CUP seeks a teaching artist assistant to collaborate on an Urban Investigation in the Bronx this summer. [Welcome To Cup]
