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by Paddy Johnson on March 14, 2017
- The blizzard warning has been downgraded to 6-8 inches of snow in New York. Not that any New Yorker needs to read this, but stay off the streets. It’s terrible out there. [Gothamist]
- Theaster Gates’s show, “The Minor Arts” opened at the National Museum of Art in Washington March 5th. Now, the Times has written up a profile on the artist. [The New York Times]
- Art Dubai has a new director, Myrna Ayad. The fair’s only been around since 2007, but even in that short amount of time, programming can grow stale. This report shows a fresher face and the positive addition of curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath of ArtReoriented to the fair’s selection committee. [The Art Newspaper]
- Galleries are being pushed out of West Chelsea due to rents and one developer thinks that sucks. Related will offer 15 new gallery spaces including ones in their Zaha Hadid-designed luxury condos. Paul Kasmin has already signed on. [Curbed]
- Crap! A.I. Friedman, the 80 year old art supply store and frame shop is closing! Why are so many art supply stores closing? Aside from high rents, the issue seems to be Amazon resellers and Blick, an art supply store that now has seven stores in New York. Also, apparently students are spending less on materials like paint. Perhaps they are making more art on their computers? [The New York Post]
- Photographs from IM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Amazing. [Dezeen]
- And for those interested in the ballet, the American Ballet Theatre has enlisted artist Mark Ryden to create the set and costumes for their production of Richard Strauss’s surrealist ‘Whipped Cream.’ [Hyperallergic]
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