April 26, 2011

In Berlin? Make sure to check out L’Atlas’ solo show! Read more here: [skalitzers]

April 11, 2011

Demand that artist Ai Weiwei be released! Sign the online petitions.

On Friday, with no sign that the Chinese government was planning to free artist Ai Weiwei from custody anytime soon, the Tate Modern in London offered up a simple message on its Northern facade, sending an unambiguous message as to where it stood on the matter: “Release Ai Weiwei.” The Guggenheim Foundation made a gesture of its own, launching a bilingual online petition addressed to Chinese culture minster Cai Wu, rallying the leaders of the world’s preeminent cultural institutions to add their voices to the call to free Ai Weiwei. The statement made clear that the signatories hoped “to hasten the release of our visionary friend.” [Artinfo]

April 9, 2011

Love art & help Japan. Stop by gallery nine5 to see our incredible show of works by Gonzalo Papantonakis and donate to Japanese disaster relief efforts today

April 5, 2011

L’Atlas, a seminal figure in French street art, at the Palais Royale. See more works at gallery nine5.

March 6, 2011

Now please pay attention everybody. I’m about to tell you what art is. [Guardian]

March 1, 2011

Sneak preview of the Armory show. Open to the public Thurs-Sun. See you there!

Things move fast in the art world, and in New York that’s especially true. Take Armory Week. Just three years after a financial collapse threatened to put a screeching halt to the art market, collectors, curators, and assorted art lovers coming to the fairs this week will find an absolute explosion of market events, with satellite fairs proliferating, blue-chip wares on view in galleries across the city, and A-list parties and dinners abounding. Boom times are clearly back — if the London auctions are not indication enough, just count the number of art-investment-themed panels, book launches, and talks this week — but the ground underfoot is changed indeed. [Artinfo]

February 17, 2011

If art is among your full-blown obsessions or just a budding interest, Google, which has already altered the collective universe in so many ways, changed your life last week. It unveiled its Art Project, a Web endeavor that offers easy, if not yet seamless, access to some of the art treasures and interiors of 17 museums in the United States and Europe. [New York Times]