- Adam Szymczyk, the director of Documenta 14, gets a write up in the Times for ‘his championing of unknown artists.’ He’s curated solo shows by Aleksandra Domanovic, Moyra Davey, and Lucy Skaer, so that’s a good track record. [The New York Times]
- Seapunk aesthetic for your tombstone? That and much more at Funeral Concept, a place that appears to specialize in the funerary objects for the young. [Funeral Concept]
- Paris Photo, which concluded Sunday, drew over 55,000 visitors this year. Carole Naggar wraps it up on TIME Light Box with a selection of mostly black and white documentary-style images from the 20th century, and notes that it rained inside the fair briefly. [TIME]
- Céline Piettre gives a nuts-and-bolts reflection of Paris Photo, crediting the increased presence of American collectors to last April’s inaugural Paris Photo Los Angeles. [Blouin Artinfo]
- Cheryl Newman fawns over Sophie Calle and shouts out Broomberg and Channarin’s much-shouted Holy Bible as a hot seller. [The Telegraph]
- Photographer Anita Totha makes the only edit of contemporary work I’ve seen from the fair. [Feature Shoot]
- Aperture’s PhotoBook of the Year award went to a self-published book, Rosângela Rennó’s A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] — A27 [S | COD.23]. Óscar Monzón’s KARMA won the $10,000 First PhotoBook award. [Aperture Foundation]
- On that topic, Wired did a Q&A with Leslie Martin, publisher of the Aperture book program. She makes it clear that the publishing industry is in flux: “There are 20 books in the Paris-Photo/Aperture First Book shortlist and 14 of them are self-published.” [Wired]
- ICI Benefits keep getting fancier. This one includes guests Dasha Zhukova, Sophia Coppola, and Marina Abromovic amongst others. [Blackbook]
- Looks like the Ad Reinhardt show organized by critic Robert Storr at David Zwirner is a must see. [The New York Times]
- An interesting concept from the Times: Retro Report; The truth now about stories then. The short video segments cover stories about 10-15 years old—the stuff that hasn’t quite left your consciousness, but isn’t exactly fresh either. Y2K is a pretty good example of this, a story that lives somewhere on the edge of nostalgia. [Retro Report]
