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Big time NYC art dealer Jeffrey Deitch has been appointed director of LAMoCA. Is this a good or bad thing? Should art dealers be Museum Directors? People point to his “good taste”. He’s a nice guy, I’ve always gotten along with him, and he owns an early piece of mine. But this is a lazy [...]
William Powhida, How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality, cover art, Brooklyn Rail, November 2009 (For a larger, more legible image, click here.) ———————- The Brooklyn Rail, founded in 1998, is a scrappy, independent cultural/political broadsheet that covers issues in Brooklyn’s waterfront neighborhoods (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, DUMBO, Red Hook) from a politically progressive vantage point. [...]
Last night while walking through MIA-ARTFAIR I stopped to examine some designer carpets, one designed by Kenneth Noland. It brought to mind his brand of lean abstraction in painting. I hadn’t see his carpets before but as a textile designed artifact, it was very nice and wouldn’t overpower furniture or paintings in a room. Kenneth [...]
Sarah Douglas spoke with Mitchell-Innes about integrity, ethics, and why artists should get the same tax breaks as collectors. Conversation With Lucy Mitchell-Innes By Sarah Douglas Published: January 1, 2010 Photo by Oberto Gili Dealer Lucy Mitchell-Innes, president of the Art Dealers Association of America The 48-year-old Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) can no [...]
KDD Movie Short Take: Avatar: “Today I started making a list of all the movies I saw in the theater in 2009 that I never wrote about. The list is way longer than it should be. The problem is that when I started writing longer, more comprehensive reviews to publish, I stopped writing little blurby [...]
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