Mike Kelley at Hauser & Wirth
- Howard Halle reviews the Mike Kelley show at Hauser & Wirth, but I can’t tell if he likes it. (He gives the show five stars, so I guess the answer is that he does.) He sees great sadness in the show. Like Superman, the subject of the exhibition, Kelley comes from the rust belt. Halle says that the people who destroyed industry in that part of the nation are the same people who are now underwriting the art world. Who are these people he’s talking about? [Time Out]
- Holland Cotter gives the new Archibald Motely show up at the Whitney the thumbs up. “It has features that many bigger, sexier exhibitions lack,” he writes, “an affecting narrative, a distinctive atmosphere and a complicated political and moral tenor.” We agree. [The New York Times]
- Good lord. An artist painting an anti-violence mural was shot in Oakland. Terrible. [Hyperallergic]
- There is now an art loans database. Only $799 per year for access courtesy of Skate’s. Can anyone tell us what people do with this information? We assume it’s for investment purposes. [Artnews]
- Former Knoedler gallery director Ann Freedman and the now-shuttered gallery will go to trial for two cases involving sale of fake Abstract Expressionist paintings. Judge Gardephe denied Freedman and the gallery’s motions for summary judgment in the lawsuits lodged by New York collector John Howard and Sotheby’s chairman Domenico De Sole and his wife, Eleanore. His reasons will be explained forthcoming Memorandum Opinion and Order but no date on when that would be released was given. I bet that’s going to be juicy. [The Art Newspaper]
