Greater Idols

Cookies, a Botticelli monograph and gold jumpsuits are just some of the disparate objects currently located in PS1's rotating gallery space. Curated by ICI (Independent Curators International) director Kate Fowle, the backroom features a temporary archive of objects and documents contributed by 40 of the Greater New York artists to represent the major influences in their work.
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Space is Key

The first person to receive the key to New York City (Viscount Cornbury in 1702) has gone down in the history books as being a corrupt degenerate who took bribes and misappropriated government funds. Yankees Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez got keys to New York (in 2003 and 2007, respectively). Clemens is still under investigation for using performance-enhancing drugs, and A-Rod has admitted to using them in the past. Saddam Hussein was given the key to Detroit in 1980. All told, a spotty history.
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Jon Kessler's New, Fast Pace

For the last few years, an exhibition of the work of Jon Kessler has entailed a whirligig installation of cutout and ephemera, with live-feed cameras and monitors that scoped out visitors in a paranoid maze. His current exhibition at Pace Prints focuses on works on paper, a medium which he has only used since 2007. Political threads run throughout—the primary content of the collaged prints is the bald eagle—but the strongest correlation to Kessler's better known works is the complex, time-sensitive process he uses to develop them. Here, Kessler discusses the difference in process, the financial crash, personal influences and natural history museums:
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Bloomberg Not Buying at the ADAA, But Others Are

A sigh of relief seems to be sounding out across the booths of The Art Show, the 22nd Art Dealers Association of America, invite-only art fair held in the Park Avenue Armory building. And while Mayor Bloomberg may have quipped in his opening speech that he wasn't there to buy art but to discuss New York's cultural community, others certainly were, since sales had already been made. 55 New York galleries and 15 national dealers weathered the storm, as one gallerist expressed when discussing the last 14 months: "We made it through. We even managed to keep hold of all of our staff."
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