Wednesday Links: The Gallerist Who Flew

• Gallerist’s Dan Duray interviewed Christopher D’Amelio about closing his gallery and heading over to David Zwirner as a full partner. It’s full of great metaphors, like this one where D’Amelio sounds like a bird. He’s talking about what it’s like to move from his mid-sized gallery to David Zwirner’s: “[S]uddenly I had an opportunity to open my wings and soar over that divide, and I’m about to land on the other side.” [GalleristNY]
• VICE followed around art duo Ghost of a Dream. The end result? A pretty tame video. Highlights include the artists talking about wanting to make dreams into a reality, then watching them cover one type of a vehicle after another with lotto tickets, the discarded “dreams”. We expect more from VICE; after all, they’ve given us “Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan”. [VICE]
• Louise Blouin will not buy the Armory Show after all. [Art in America]
• The City announces the winner of its tiny apartment design competition. The City has devoted a plot of land at 335 East 27th Street to developing “micro-apartments”. The question remains whether anyone will want to live in them. [The New York Times’ City Room]
• It must be Royal Portrait Unveiling Month because it looks like we’ve got another painting from the monarchy. For the last 60 years, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth has been sitting locked up in Liverpool Town Hall. The portrait looked nothing like its sitter, so “[e]mbarrassed council chiefs ordered it to be hidden from public view in the vaults.” [The Telegraph]
• The Clock won’t stop its worldwide tour. Joining the ranks of MoMA, LACMA, and the Pompidou Center, among others, Ohio’s The Wexner Center will be screening Christian Marclay’s 24-hour-long video. People really love this video. [The Wexner Center]
• Most kids outgrow their imaginary friends. Not Eleanor Antin. In her memoir Conversations with Stalin, the artist keeps her childhood imaginary friend—Joseph Stalin—through young adulthood. Starting Monday, January 28th, she’s giving a week-long reading of her memoir at museums and galleries throughout New York. [Art Agenda]
• Daniel Buren opened two solo shows this month at Bortolami and Petzel Gallery. Roberta Smith’s not a fan of Daniel Buren’s continued devotion to stripes, claiming that he “gets credit for choosing art over ideology, but he has to do more than relearn old tricks.” [The New York Times]
• Art Tumblr blog phenom @HydeorDie launches a new art buying site, Hyde or Buy. [Tumblr]

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