203 Houston, the site of Katz's new art gallery "The Space" (Image courtesy of Bowery Boogie)
- Good news for pro-bush advocates! Marilyn Minter’s been posting pics of bushes on Facebook, in protest of all the baldness. [AnimalNY]
- The Times has run two stories on William Kentridge. He’s closing an opera at the Metropolitan Opera, and opening a show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I get that these are big institutions, but with so many artists working in the city without coverage, couldn’t they have rolled this into one feature? (His show opens Tuesday.) [The New York Times, (Opera), The New York Times, (The Met)]
- Let the Frieze reports begin. Take one: Jonathan Jones is upset that Frieze Masters takes “the entire history of art and turns it into an elitist shopping mall.” He then complains that the fair turns art into congealed money. To complain that an art fair is just for the rich is to fail to understand the point of an art fair, which is to sell art to rich people. But the actual review, which discusses fakes, substandard Brueghels, bad medieval paintings is more substantive than the usual crap Jones churns out. [The Guardian]
- Adrian Searle thinks Frieze has better lighting and wider aisles this year, and while the art hasn’t improved much he says galleries seem to be trying harder. (Not sure how “trying harder” was determined, but okay.) Oh, and Jennifer Rubell continues to make bad art. [The Guardian]
- Frieze gets a blow job from the Times: The fair has a non-profit foundation! (and has since its inception). The fawning profile on this year’s program here —-> [The New York Times]
- Architecture critic Michael Kimmelman gives the city’s mayor a to-do list. [The New York Times]
- Fred Amisen revives Ian Rubbish, his punk character from SNL, to play with actual members of the Clash. [Salon]
- On the topic of punk, a 1989 interview with Dee Dee Ramone right after he quit the band was just released by Punk Magazine’s original “resident punk”, Legs McNeill. [Please Kill Me]
- TIME Lightbox is into selfies. First, Elizabeth Avedon and John Maloof are interviewed about Vivian Maier’s graceful reflections captured with a Rolleiflex. Then, Marina Galperina and Kyle Chayka are interviewed about their National #Selfie portrait gallery. [TIME]
- Lucky for Banksy, it’s a pretty slow news cycle. The New York Post is going to call the cops, because we’re having an “art attack.” [NY Post] Presumably that’s because Bloomberg’s casting himself as the authority figure to Banksy’s felon-on-the-run, so now we’ve got a David and Goliath narrative starting to emerge. Stay tuned. [Politicker]
- A new memoir on Lucian Freud by Geordie Grieg has a dishy portrait of the painter’s complicated relationship with his daughter, including painting her nude at age 14. Freud sounds like a jerk. [Vanity Fair]
- OMG. Katz’s Delicatessen is turning the nextdoor space into an art gallery for deli-inspired art. [Bowery Boogie, via Artinfo]
