Idris Khan and Sarah Warsop "Lying in Wait," 2008. Featured in Art and Auction's 50 Most Collectable list
- Jesus Christ. Nine pages of fawning Turrell profile in the New York Times this morning. Can’t we at least space these out? [New York Times]
- Each of Artinfo’s “50 Under 50” most collectible emerging artists ends in a price range. I’ve never seen so many dollar signs in an artist list. Unsurprisingly, painters are high. [ArtInfo]
- Jerry Saltz raves over the Met’s big in-house reorganization, going so far as to suggest that creating space for 45 extra rooms (once used for rotating exhibitions) may alter the course of art. He notes, “I especially appreciate that the Met did this not by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on some newfangled, architecturally driven, funny-shaped ark of a building with traffic patterns that force you to smell food while looking at art.” [Vulture]
- Rhizome’s Gene McHugh believes artist Peter Van Riper has not yet received the recognition he deserves for his sound or holographic work. The essay is mostly dedicated to exploring his art; Van Riper made some of the earliest holographic images and could be recognized for that alone (he’s better known for his musical work).[Rhizome]
- 3D TV is going out with a fizzle. ESPN 3D, like a handful of others, emerged in 2010 soon after the release of “Avatar”. The lack of popularity, we assume, has something to do with needing to wear those clunky 3D glasses. [Wall Street Journal]
- Josh Baer says Art Basel in Switzerland is the best fair in quality and range of material and laments that more Americans don’t visit. Our thoughts? This year, the fair was spaced two weeks apart from Venice though, so it’s not quite as convenient as it has been previously. [Baer Faxt]
- For those following Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his associated scandals, police raided the apartment of two suspected drug dealers he was pictured with. I know this sounds terrible, but I hope they find something that incriminates Ford. He’s a destructive mayor. [The Toronto Star]
- Oh, god. Not another art and punk rock pairing. MOCAtv just launched a new series “The Art of Punk”. The first episode interviews artist Raymond Pettibon about how he came up with the band’s ubiquitous four bar logo. He stands around his studio holding a puppy in his arms while pointing to “that motherfucking thing” [the logo]. June 18th will see the launch of “Art and the Dead Kennedy’s”. [MOCAtv]
