- For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 is on view at the Japan Society through January 10th. This looks like it will be a good show. [Blouin Artinfo]
- Frieze week is being described as a test for the art market following a record-breaking spring but a tumultuous summer. The verdict? Sales seem to be off to a pretty good start. [Bloomberg]
- In related news, Phillips’s auction sold out on the first day of London’s art-buying week, signifying that the art market is still strong and that the auction house might be a challenger to the supremacy of Christie’s and Sotheby’s. [Art Market Monitor]
- But the best part of Frieze week is probably Misako & Rosen’s booth, where Ken Kagami is drawing personalized caricatures of fair attendees’ penises and breasts. [artnet News]
- Flux Factory’s Fall Benefit Banquet has arrived. It’s a five course vegetarian meal and open bar for $85 on November 6th. Pick your tickets up. [Eventbrite]
- Submissions close on Saturday for Platform Gallery’s second annual juried exhibition. I (Michael) am on the jury along with Alex Ebstein and Wickerham & Lomax. You should apply! Prizes! [Platform]
- Wow. Here’s 5,000 words on how American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister,development critic, surveyor, and historian Henry David Thoreau was the biggest dick ever. [The New Yorker]
- Galleria Continua, the Italian gallery that represents Anish Kapoor, is opening a location in Havana, Cuba with an exhibition by Kapoor. I wonder if other galleries are going to follow as the country’s relationship with the global community improves. [The Art Newspaper]
- Today, the Detroit Institute of Arts is hosting an event to unveil a new government website that catalogs all of the art in the federal U.S. General Services Administration’s Fine Arts Collection. [ABC News]