COURTESY PHOTO SOLUTIONS
A look around Art Dubai, which artist Abbas Akhavan described as being “somewhere between a craft fair and a gun show.” [Artforum]
The fifth edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, which opens this Thursday after two days of previews, will act as a barometer for the Asian market. Sales in China are slowing down, but can the fair still succeed?[South China Morning Post]
The Scene at the Whitney
Whitney Museum director Adam D. Weinberg has issued a statement about why the National Endowment for the Arts is “irreplaceable.” [Whitney Museum]
Alexandra Schwartz writes on Jordan Wolfson’s extremely violent Whitney Biennial VR project. [The New Yorker]
Lives
Robert Silvers, the founding editor of the New York Review of Books, has died at 87. [The New York Times]
Around Europe
Artificial intelligence, plane crashes, and more appeared in Cécile B. Evans’s Tate Liverpool show, which closed this past Sunday. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Paris’s Centre Pompidou has plans to open a pop up museum in Shanghai’s West Bund cultural district. [The Art Newspaper]
Spiders
For his paintings, Michael Anthony Simon relies not on canvases, but on spiderwebs. Here’s how he makes them. [The New Yorker]