Largest Para Site Auction Benefit to date: 88 Works of Art to be Auctioned. Para Site to feature local, international artists and preview of North Point location >> Read more
While the minimum and average quality of art displayed was noticeably higher than last year (better galleries, minimal kitsch) the art displayed was generally conservative—innovation was seldom seen... >> Read more
It's not really a weekend. Because of May Day, it's already 4 days anyway but people keep stretching it out and frankly now the "weekend" is at least 10 days. And there was such a lot to see. And there was such a lot I wish I hadn't seen too.
Billy Childish, as his adopted name suggests, is an antidote to the art world’s pretension. An early punk and expelled from art school, he has always refused to just fit in or comply. He is a prolific musician, poet, writer and painter... >> Read more
FIAC celebrates its 40th in Paris’ Grand Palais, its glass dome lending the fair a certain high-end je ne sais quoi. But not only the architecture was a step up from last week’s frieze art fair in London...
Notable returnees included Marian Goodman, who will open a London branch in Autumn 2014 and Max Hetzler from Berlin, who as one of Jeff Koons’ first European gallerists, had his booth strategically placed opposite Gagosian’s solo presentation of large-scale works of one of the world’s most expensive living artist. >> Read more
Berlin Art Week, combining major museum openings, art berlin contemporary (an art fair), and a panoply of individual exhibitions, talks, happenings, lunches, parties and schmoozing, could be a wonderful thing. >> Read more