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– THE BIG STORY –
The art world suffered a sad loss over the weekend in the death of David Weiss, who as one half of the Swiss collective Fischli Weiss has been responsible for some of the wittiest, most unpredictable art of the past fifty years. Known for their cryptic typologies and surrealistic combines of household objects into improbable sculptures, the pair is most famous for their 1987 film The Way Things Go—a Rube Goldberg-like set of chain reactions that uses fire, water, and explosions to propel objects through a 100-foot warehouse—and have twice represented their country at the Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion in 2003. Passing away at the age of 66, Weiss leaves behind his collaborator of 32 years, Peter Fischli, and a body of extraordinarily varied work.
– QUOTE OF THE DAY –
“The most conclusive information is that 58 percent of artists invited to work with small, medium, and large non-profit arts institutions and museums received no form of payment, expense reimbursement, or artist fee at all…. After compiling and analyzing the results, we are more convinced than ever that there is little clarity, consistency, transparency, or negotiation regarding artist fees — above and beyond expenses, which themselves are being covered wholly inconsistently.” – Artists rights group W.A.G.E. (run by the artists A.K. Burns, K8 Hardy, and A.L. Steiner) on the results of a survey they conducted with support from Artists Space to assess whether artists were being fairly compensated for the work they put into shows at art institutions
– MUST READ –
Cindy Sherman Made a Horror-Comedy Movie? – Her little-known 1997 movie Office Killer—yes, the Film Stills artist made an actual feature film—is getting a rare screening at London’s A Little Film Club, featuring Carol Kane as a magazine editor who goes on a murder spree and what the New York Times observed was a “nasty “a nasty caricature of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington.” (Scout London)
Sherman’s Note of Cruelty – For the New York Times‘s Possessed column, where famous people spotlight a possession that resonates with them, the artist chose an anonymous notecard in which a man heartlessly breaks things off with his fiancée after finding out she has a glass eye. (NYT)
See Pier Paolo Calzolari‘s Extraordinary Show – If you go to only one art show in Chelsea this May make sure that it is the beautiful, funny, ingenious, and revelatory exhibition of the reclusive Arte Povera artist’s work — his first U.S. show in two decades—that stretches from Marianne Boesky Gallery into the neighboring Pace Gallery. (NYT)
Pompidou to Expand With Global Outposts – Museum president Alain Seban says the Paris museum will follow the opening of its Metz satellite with a series of temporary galleries that will bring art from its collection to locations—from universities to shopping malls—in the BRIC nations, although he says the plan is a “more modest approach” than the Guggenheim‘s proliferation of permanent museum franchises around the world. (TAN)
Inside Orhan Pamuk’s Bizarro Museum – The fictional museum that the Turkish author spent the equivalent of his Nobel Prize money ($1.5 million) to build as a real-world manifestation of his novel The Museum of Innocence—certainly one of the more Borgesian things a guy can do—is now open, and you can see a slide show of it here. (NYT)
Too Hot for Tilly – New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly has published a book called Blown Covers that features illustrations considered too spicy to grace the magazine’s cover, including some truly salacious drawings by her husband, Art Spiegelman, that you can see here. (Guardian)
– ART MARKET –
Preview the Art at Frieze NYC – Artinfo has a truly exciting sneak-peek at the wares that will be on view when the much-anticipated fair opens to VIPs on Thursday, so give it a look. (Artinfo)
Anticipating an Epic Auction Week – Bookmakers believe that Munch‘s The Scream could bring in as much as $200 million when it goes up for sale at Sotheby’s this Wednesday, almost doubling the 2010 auction record set by Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, and that’s not even mentioning the Double Elvis, the red Rothko, the Dora Maar portrait, or the Card Players watercolor heading for sale this week too. (NYT)
Scenes from Zona Maco – The chic Mexico City art fair drew an illustrious crowd this year, from princesses to New Museum curator Richard Flood, London gallerist Sadie Coles, Artists Space director Stefan Kalmár, Guggenheim curator Ari Wiseman, and, of course, the folks of the city’s powerhouse gallery kurimanzutto. (Artforum)
– IN & OUT –
Friedrich Petzel Gallery says that it will be opening a third Chelsea space on 18th Street this fall that will encompass 6,000 square feet of exhibition space, 25-foot ceilings, and a three-story office building next door. (Press Release)
