- Today’s title. [Ritemail]
- Our events posts just got a whole lot easier, thanks to founder Barry Hoggard’s new service Filterizer: a one-page list of the season’s best art shows in the New York City area. [Filterizer]
- Marina Galperina and Kyle Chayka’s National Selfie Portait Gallery has been getting tons of press from Yahoo News, TIME, and The Atlantic. (We’ll note that Galperina’s first selfie post was written for AFC back in 2010.) Yahoo News doesn’t waste any time getting to the real question; is this art? That’s the second sentence. PS1 Curator and Director Klaus Biesenbach isn’t having any of this. This morning he indirectly acknowledged the exhibition tweeting, “everybody seems obsessed with talking about selfies…..it is nothing else than looking into a mirror and spreading what you vainly see.” Well, I guess that’s settled. [The Internet]
- Looks like Animal and Metro New York have a new partnership. Read Bucky Turco and Andy Cush on how landlords may cash in on Banksy’s graffiti. [Metro]
- Anyone else remember when Jerry Saltz said he and his wife had an agreement not to cover the same shows? That pact’s obviously gone out the window now that he’s at New York Magazine and it’s too bad, because they often share the same opinions. Anyway, Saltz follows up Smith’s Chris Burden show at The Times. He likes the show too. [New York Magazine]
- The Art Newspaper covered the shit out of The Frieze Art Fair this year (as they always do). Collector Alain Servais rounds up his favorites on twitter our favorite of which is Julia Halperin’s piece asking why so many artists are attracted to abstract painting. Digital backlash? [The Art Newspaper]
- National Academy School offers free classes to displaced 3rd Ward members. [In the Air]
- Companies involved in synthetic biology can make yeast taste nearly identical to vanilla, saffron, and a host of other flavors. [The New York Times]
- The James Turrell show at The Guggenheim was the highest attended of all time, with 470,000 visitors. [Real Clear Arts]
- In response to pressures to boost profits, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are getting in on the gallery business, with Sotheby’s S|2 and Christie’s Mayfair Gallery. The Wall Street Journal speculates that they’ll “shake up the clubby international art scene” with “trendy new artists”; Christies’ Haunch of Venison has been on this for a while now, and based on the S|2 and Mayfair lineups, we’re not as worried. [Wall Street Journal]
