Last year's Governors Island Art Fair was an experiment for its founders, the
4heads Collective. The New York-based artist group had never organized an art fair before, and they had less than a month to prepare. "It could have been a grand failure," laughs Jack Robinson, a digital collage artist and 4heads member. Instead of a failure, however, the first GIAF was a modest success, featuring 52 artists in one building and bringing in 5,000 visitors on its busiest day.
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A fleet of intricate, handcrafted vessels that functions as a stage, a sculpture exhibition and a social experiment, Swoon's "
Swimming Cities" project is headed to one of the places that originally inspired it: Venice. The street artist and her 30-member crew will dock off of Certosa Island during the Venice Biennale to give a series of performances, collectively titled "The Clutchess of Cuckoo," which will feature music, shadow puppetry, and visual storytelling.
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