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The Americas Dream
On a night threatened with storms and overscheduled with art fair parties, the Pan-American art world elite gathered in the cavernous Moynihan Station, the old post office in midtown Manhattan, to raise money for the Tate Americas Foundation. Celebrating over 30 contemporary artists from the Western Hemisphere with its third triennial artists dinner, the event drew a cast of collectors, patrons, artists and movie stars from North and South America.
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Keeping up with Anthony Elms at Independent
Fresh off the train from Philadelphia, braving blustery winds and wet, sideways snow, Anthony Elms met A.i.A. in the lobby of the former Dia building in Chelsea for a walkthrough of the Independent art fair. Now in its fourth year, Independent distinguishes itself from the other March fairs with its relatively small roster (40-odd galleries and nonprofits compared with the Armory Show's 200+), a freewheeling, experimental spirit, and an open, cubicle-free layout, this year thanks to architect Christian Wassmann.Read More
Keeping up with Chus Martinez at the Armory Show
"I've visited this fair only once before," confessed El Museo del Barrio chief curator Chus Martínez as she entered Pier 94, the contemporary art section of the Armory Show, during the preview today. A petite, intense native of Spain, she was wearing gold Adidas sneakers for her walkthrough with A.i.A.Read More
How to Do It with HUO and Massimiliano GIoni
Was 1993 a moment? The question structured last Saturday's conversation between curators Massimiliano Gioni and Hans Ulrich Obrist, moderated by Kate Fowle, curator at Moscow's Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. Obrist's ongoing project, "do it," begun during the year in question over casual conversation in a Montparnasse café, was the occasion for the exchange, held in the basement auditorium of New York's New Museum. An offhand comment by Richard Hamilton ("We mainly remember exhibitions that invent new rules of the game") motivated Obrist and two artist friends, Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, to rethink a format vitiated by two-plus decades of institutional critique. The result is an accumulating compendium of DIY instructions, each penned by an artist, which exists as an exhibition with or without a venue to house it. To date, nearly 400 artists have authored instructions that have been enacted in some four dozen institutions worldwide.
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Successful Screenings at Art Rotterdam
Proud as punch, fair director Fons Hof opened the 12th edition of Art Rotterdam last Wednesday and, with it, "Projections," a new section focused on moving image artworks that featured 19 galleries. "Projections" was housed in a separate building across the street from the main fair and consisted of large freestanding screens arranged without booths. Flemish collector Alain Servais told A.i.A. that the new section was "well installed" and "collector-friendly, due to the lack of light, which meant collectors could walk unrecognized over the fair and focus on the art."Read More
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Collage and acrylic on paper, thread, string, plastic lid
48 x 30 ¼ in.
