- Ann Freedman, the Knoedler & Company gallerist at the center of the $80 million art forgery speaks to New York Magazine. It really looks like she got bamboozled here, which is too bad, because the scandal’s effectively shut down the storied gallery. The magazine’s reporter, James Panero, managed to find one gallerist, Marco Grassi of Grassi Studios to sling some mud at Freedman. Grassi seems a little evil for doing so. [New York Magazine]
- Good God, the loss of Mike Kelley really hits home while watching this two hour long video interview with him. He talks about everything from cave paintings to the media industry. He’s just so smart. A quote:
“I truly believe in the difference between art and life because I think art is political and thus it has to be symbolically separated from daily life, otherwise it has no meaning. That’s why I really disagree with Kaprow, because I think unless you separate life and art, it doesn’t imply a conscious motivation, it doesn’t imply a will, it doesn’t imply resistance. And art is the only arena in American culture in which difference is tolerated. I mean, I don’t even think it exists in politics…what scares me about contemporary art is the merging of it with the entertainment industry…because once the entertainment industry can produce fake resistance then you don’t have real resistance.” [YouTube via Gregdotorg]
- More on the purpose of art from Frieze’s Alexander Alberro. He identifies its primary aim as one that defamiliarize and estranges the viewer from “habits of understanding”. Sounds about right. [Frieze]
- New York City contributed 48 million to the Queens Museum renovation, the museum has no debt and they’ve doubled their board to 24 over the last decade. They’ve doubled their size to 105,000 square feet, and are adding six new staff members. They open in November. Now to get people out to Queens. As a part-time Queens dweller, I couldn’t be more happy about their growth. [The New York Times]
- Hyperallergic is on the 3D printing beat. They’ve recently published two stories on the subject; a 3D printed database of fossils, and another about 3D printed Van Gogh paintings. I went to an opening in Denver last month where they were printing 3D labels. Much less exciting. [Hyperallergic]
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