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Uwe Opocensky
by Michael Anthony Farley on March 18, 2016
- From Damien-Hirst-inspired appetizers to a painter’s palette full of sauces, chef Uwe Opocensky’s Art Basel menu at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong is ridiculous. [Quartz]
- San Francisco’s art scene is being gutted by gentrification. To combat displacement, a group of philanthropists has opened the Minnesota Street Project—a for-profit warehouse building with artist studios, offices for nonprofits, and retail spaces for gallerists who can now share resources under one roof. It’s an interesting model. [ABC 7]
- Brace yourselves: another art fair is coming to New York. A satellite fair called “Portal” will occupy the Federal Hall on Wall Street during Frieze Week. [The New York Times]
- Baltimore collective Open Space has released the vendor list for their seventh annual Publications and Multiples Fair, which is always awesome. Some of our favorite artists and groups are participating, including the BHQF, April Camlin, Transmitter, and Bmore Art. [City Paper]
- Christie’s is being held responsible for more than $700,000 worth of art destroyed in Hurricane Sandy. [New York Post]
- Big Freedia—the queer artist who popularized New Orleans bounce—is facing jail time over housing voucher fraud. Brentin Mock argues that would be Louisianna making the worst out of a bad situation. [City Lab]
- If you live in an American city, chances are your subway/public housing/bridges/other vital infrastructure is falling apart. The capital metro just had to shut for safety inspections. That disaster-fraught system is the poster child for the “Great Society” era infrastructure we’ve inherited—it was beautiful when it opened, but the past few politically dysfunctional decades haven’t seen us building anything new or maintaining what we have. “Demolition by neglect is now our maintenance policy, and not just when it comes to things we have made in bricks and mortar; it erodes our civic landscape, too.” [The Washington Post]
- Now BART—another aging transit system left over from a more civilized time—is responding to twitter critics with brutal honesty. “We have 3 hours a night to do maintenance on a system built to serve 100k per week that now serves 430k per day. #ThisIsOurReality” [Vox]
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