2012 QAM recipient Camilo Godo. Image via: Hyperallergic
- “I like Mr. Turrell’s work well enough” Roberta Smith on the James Turrell exhibition at the Guggenheim. Despite the way it sounds, (if you’ll excuse the pun), the review is glowing. [The New York Times]
- With James Turrell at the Guggenheim, the summer solstice making his 1986 “Meeting” at MoMA PS1 an enticing destination for sunbathing, as well as retrospectives in Houston and Los Angeles, it would seem the artist is on top of the world. That said, he has recently declared one of his works in Dallas “destroyed” due to unwelcome real estate development. [Hyperallergic]
- Turkish artist and choreographer Erdem Gündüz stood still as an act of protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul this week. The artist has garnered a small following of fellow standers who in turn have been awarded the hashtags #direnankara and #duranadam (standingman, standingwoman) [ArtInfo]
- Queer artists, filmmakers, and writers pair up in the New York-based mentorship program aptly named the Queer Art Mentorship Program. Participants include Carlos Motta, Moe Angelos, Geoffrey Chadsey, Yoruba Richen [Hyperallergic]
- The Queens Museum launches a new studio program with nine residents. They include Juan Betancurth, Onyedika Chuke, Shahab Fotouhi, Caitlin Keogh, Mike Kenney, Filip Olzeweski and Bunny Rogers, Jewyo Rhii and Caroline Woolard. [Gallerist]
- Holland Cotter on Ken Price at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: one of those rare ideal shows: right size, great design (by Frank Gehry), pretty near faultless art. [The New York Times]
