the “Battle of Yestermore” by Iona Rozeal Brown at Performa
- Chicago’s West Loop art district is getting a new neighbor, “The Real World.” [DNAinfo Chicago]
- American Apparel CEO Dov Charney has been fired! The board ousted him, citing “ongoing investigation into misconduct”; the Wall Street Journal cites piddling sales. [Wall Street Journal]
- Here’s a listicle we can get behind. Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg chooses her favorite moments with videos. Gone are the days of minimal conceptual performance. [T Magazine]
- The World Cup Condom. [Wall Street Journal]
- To celebrate the reopening of Fort Tilden on July 29th, MoMA PS1 is giving beachgoers the Rockaway Arts Fest. Expect “arts and crafts, film screenings, kayaking, baseball games, and more.” The “more” part includes a concert by Patti Smith. [Gothamist]
- Art Basel opens to the public today. VIPs have already strong noted work, especially at ArtUnlimited. Josh Baer mentions record-setting sales, but what’s selling might be just as worthwhile. He notes “an uptick for ‘mid level’ or “mid career” works at ‘mid level galleries.’” Anyway, we’re still here in New York right now. [The Baer Faxt]
- “Art Basel is the only fair where directors, curators and trustees all turn up together, so they can make much quicker decisions,” dealer Thaddaeus Ropac told the Art Newspaper. This is supposed to be some sort of explanation for why there’s more atypical work at the fair this year. What bullshit. If dealers are trying to sell “underknown” works, like the gray painting cited by Gerhard Richter, wouldn’t the more logical explanation be that there’s not a lot of the better known work available? [The Art Newspaper]
- If artists need to learn how to operate like start-ups, curator and artist Nicholas O’Brien writes, then they can look to the distribution systems established by indie game development. [SFAQ]
- Adam Fitzgerald interviews poet and former Artnews correspondent John Ashbury. Very gossipy and there’s a very funny tidbit about how Ashbury learned French so he could write his diary in the language to keep his mother from reading it. Worried she knew the word “garcon” he also adopted slang “gars”. [Bomb]
- Julien Auctions in Los Angeles is holding their second-ever street art auction. The auction lists eight Banksys for sale; no word yet on whether the street artist disapproves of the sale of his works. He usually does. [Broadway World]
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