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For nearly a decade, the Russian collector, curator, and art patron Maria Baibakova has been a critical driver in both building the infrastructure for a vibrant and sustainable contemporary art scene in her country and opening up the lines of artistic exchange between Russia and the wider world. Her Moscow-based non-profit Baibakov Art Projects has been a powerful fulcrum for these efforts, allowing her to stage museum-quality exhibitions that draw international attention—leading the New Yorker to declare that “if anyone is to become Russia’s Peggy Guggenheim, it is Baibakova.” Now, joining Artspace as strategic director in charge of expanding the site’s presence in the global marketplace, Baibakova has a new avenue for bringing about her cultural vision. READ MORE
Roughly 500 years ago a Spanish conquistador is believed to have brought the tomato back to Europe, changing the nature of Continental food forever. One hundred years ago, the Europeans finally returned the favor in the form of the 1913 Armory Show exhibition, the artist-organized show on 25th Street and Lexington Avenue that introduced avant-garde art to America. They got pizza, we got Warhol (and domination of the contemporary art market… and pizza too). Expect to read plenty more about the immense aftereffects of that exhibition as the year goes on, but here are a few places to start. READ MORE
The New York-based, Israeli-born artist Naama Tsabar creates performances and installations that draw on her experience playingin a band and bartending at night clubs—a potent influence that allows her work to engage the aesthetics of high Modernism with a playful liveliness. We spoke to Tsabar about her other, art-historical sources of inspiration, and her desire for women to be given more prominence in the art world. READ MORE
Every artist needs a muse, right? If you’re Damien Hirst, it’s taxidermy. If you’re Monet, it’s pond flowers. If you’re William Wegman, it’s Weimaraners. But throughout history, plenty of artists have drawn creative inspiration from sources a little closer to the heart. Some art-world romances resulted in lifelong bliss and years of collaboration, while others didn’t work out quite as well. While artist-on-artist romances have been mythologized in various forms—from Hollywood blockbusters (Pollock, Frida, Midnight in Paris) to paintings—we’ve compiled our own list of the sweetest and steamiest real-life art-world romances. READ MORE
Forget everything you learned in art history class: the most influential figure in 20th-century American art was not Jackson Pollock orAndy Warhol. It was the Manhattan art dealer Leo Castelli. A genteel titan who did more than anyone to shape the art world as we know it today, Castelli was born in 1907 in Trieste with the Jewish given name of Leo Krausz and took his time finding his way to fame—he was nearly 50 years old when he opened the Castelli Gallery on East 77th Street in 1957. By that time, however, he was ready. READ MORE
Richard Artschwager, the intellectual free agent who filled his artistic career with a body of work that bounced pinball-like between Minimalism, conceptual art, architectural interventions, and furniture design (often mocking these approaches in the process), has passed away at the age of 89. His recent survey at the Whitney, titled with typical exuberant/un-self-serious verve “Richard Artschwager!”, recently brought his sculptural jabs—from his trompe l’oeil furniture pieces to his famous BLPs, oblong felt works that pop up in unexpected corners like gremlins in the art system—to the attention of new audiences, and it will tour to museums in Los Angeles and Munich. What follows are a few appreciations of Artschwager’s sui generis contribution…. READ MORE
The worlds of art and fashion are intertwined like never before, advanced by the increasing number of collaborations between contemporary artists and designers in the marketplace. With an eye to this season’s hottest fashion trends, we’ve pulled together a special Fashion Week collection offering of-the-moment artworks that will translate your favorite seasonal looks onto your walls. READ MORE
Over the past decade the number of collaborations between fashion designers and contemporary artists has increased to a dizzying degree—in fact, the marketplace is now saturated with unique hybrid efforts of this kind. While the crossover of fashion and art is hardly a new phenomenon, the nature of these partnerships differs greatly from those of the past. To cast some light on this evolution, we took a look back at how the relationship between fashion and art has changed over time. READ MORE
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Opening reception for Trevor Paglen at Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th Street, 6–8 p.m. (through March 9th)
In his first exhibition at the gallery, Paglen will present work based on a recent project—which you may remember he discussed over the summer with a nonplussed Werner Herzog—that involved him launching a metal disk etched with 100 photographs representing human existence into outer space. READ MORE
So much tumult has been occuring in the contemporary art world recently that its hard to pick one big story, so this week we’ll take refuge in the calm, hushed preserves of the Old Masters, who last week were the subject of a slate of much-watched auctions. First, it’s worth saying that one reason the sector is so soothing—imagine a cool stone-walled room in the Cloisters—is that there isn’t mind-boggling amounts of money in it. Here are the numbers. (READ MORE)