- Lisa Cooley Gallery, one of the most influential scene-makers of the Lower East Side, is closing its brick-and-mortar location on Norfolk Street. Cooley declined to comment on why the gallery closed, but in her email announcing the gallery’s closure she wrote, “Although this chapter is ending, another one is right around the corner—more sustainable, more rewarding, and more interesting. In my mind, this change will continue and extend the direction of the recent gallery program. Stay tuned. I hope to show that growth can be about ideas, not just about scale, and I look forward to seeing everyone in person soon. Lastly, consider taking a break from art and donating to one of these organizations:Food Bank of New York, Planned Parenthood, Children’s Defense Fund”. She sounds disillusioned, as anyone working in this field should be. [ARTnews]
- Vogue has identified the hot new trend in the art world: small-scale, intimate paintings supplanting large-scale installations. Except, A: installation art is just as popular as ever, B: all of the work they highlight is of a vein people have been mining since the 80s, and C: none of it is particularly “small.” Essentially, this is just a list of painters in their 20s and 30s who are cool. [Vogue]
- Is this the last we’ll hear about the insane lawsuit against Peter Doig? Three legal experts weigh in on the outcome and its place in the history of authentication law. Surprisingly not as dry of a read as one would guess. [artnet News]
- Jayne Merkel and Julia Wertz document and mourn some of the innumerable small—and vital—businesses shuttering across New York City as rents rise. Doesn’t it feel like huge swaths of Manhattan are turning into a suburban mall? Even the East Village is getting a Target. [The New York Times]
- But the East Village is also getting a shelter for LGBTQ homeless youth, named after Golden Girl Bea Arthur. Arthur donated $300,000 to the Ali Forney Center, and supported it several times before passing away in 2009. [Refinery29]
- Theo Ponchaveli has painted a mural of Lee Harvey Oswald on the side of a barbershop in Oswald’s former Dallas neighborhood, now an arts district. Some neighbors are predictably unhappy about the associating the assassin with the area. [Dallas News]
- More than 750 women artists gathered in Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s courtyard this Sunday to mark the closing of their exhibition “Evolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016”. Here’s a video from the gathering. [The Los Angeles Times]
- Watch the destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius in this 8 minute 3D animation. [Open Culture]
