by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on October 13, 2014
- Frieze co-founder Matthew Slotover defends the fair against recent criticism that it is little more than “Ikea for the rich.” “We should be grateful to them,” he says. “They are supporting museums.” Later he adds that most rich people do not collect and that most people who attend the fair don’t buy art at all. They aren’t thinking about it as a commodity! Yeah, right. Nobody enters a fair and forgets that everything on the walls is for sale—even those of us who can’t afford any of it. [The Independent]
- The Mohn Family Foundation has gifted the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with $2.5 million. This huge amount of money will endow the Mohn Family Professor of Contemporary Art History position—held by professor David Raskin—and the creation of a graduate research fellowship. [SAIC]
- Artist Peter Fend writes a letter to Artforum letting them know that he’s not okay with a review written about his recent show at Essex Street, calling out the reviewer for calling his work “kitsch,” “self-admittedly personal,” “irreverent,” “self-critical,” and “self-aggrandizing.” He’s not into artspeak. Ha. [Artforum]
- Cheers to Alaska for becoming the 30th state to allow same-sex marriage! You can get married there starting today at 8:00 a.m. [Daily Intelligencer]
- “There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men,” Tracey Emin told Viv Groskop at Red Magazine. Women, on the other hand, “are emotionally torn,” adding “it’s hard enough for me with my cat.” Groskop appropriately responded, “As a mother of three, I want to kick her (and the cat) for this.” [Red Magazine]
- From the vault: Baby Pac-Man, the world’s only pinball/video game crossbreed. [Wikipedia]
- It’s Thanksgiving in Canada! This is a minor holiday for the country—virtually no headlines about the event grace the front pages of the major papers—but still a good excuse to eat turkey. Gobble, gobble. Here’s a local Toronto story about halal Thanksgiving. [The Toronto Star]
- Today’s wonky theory applied to art claims that women and men evaluate art differently. Brought to you by a Michigan State University marketing scholar. [Jewish Business News]
- Get a job. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is hiring a Curator of Paintings. [Call for Curators]
- Take heed, artists! You will get in trouble with the IRS if you deduct expenses for art when you have a full-time job in another profession. [Studio 360]
- In 1999, Karlheinz and Agnes Essl founded the Essl Museum outside Vienna. Now that their personal fortune has been dwindling, they’re selling off 44 artworks at Christie’s tonight. “It’s all anyone can talk about,” Ealan Wingate, a director at Gagosian Gallery told the Wall Street Journal. “His strategy to create his personal museum totally fell apart.” When the tight-lipped Gagosian gallery is complaining about you, you know there’s a problem. [The Wall Street Journal]
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