Covid-19 Memorial Goes On View in D.C., $3 M. Urs Fischer Bread House Heads to Basel, and More: Morning Links for September 17, 2021
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Jeffrey Deitch
Dash Snow Documentary Fails to Contend with the Artist’s Carefully Constructed Persona
Moments Like This Never Last presents him as a figure who fell prey to the art world.
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Important Kehinde Wiley Works Come to Phillips in Quickening Market
Long before the battle over monuments to white supremacy peaked, Wiley conceived of Rumors of War
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What’s the Macho-est Exhibition in Miami This Week? (Hint: It Rhymes with ‘Criminalist Plop’)
Dealers exhibiting in Art Basel Miami Basel have gotten better at including women artists in their booths. But not everyone has gotten the memo.
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Just Like Starting Over: Can MOCA Los Angeles Reinvent Itself Again?
The newly installed Klaus Biesenbach is the institution's third director in ten years.
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Let’s Get Small: The Elusive Water McBeer Shows His Coveted Collection at Jeffrey Deitch
"The perception of art through digital media is something that has severely distorted my view of reality," the collector and dealer mused.
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The House Always Wins: A Documentary on the Art Market
Nathaniel Kahn's film is all smoke and Koonsian economics. The only thing sacred in the world he shows is money.
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Ai Weiwei Takes Over Los Angeles
On the eve of a possible move to the United States, the artist and activist has shows at Jeffrey Deitch, the Marciano Art Foundation, and the UTA Artist Space.
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Kenny Scharf
In the early 1980s, Kenny Scharf, barely out of art school, emerged as a central protagonist of the short-lived, much mythologized East Village scene—a milieu that was celebrated as a…
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RobbReport
Porsche Design Re-Issues Its Original Chronograph to Celebrate the Studio’s 50th Anniversary
WWD
Nike Brings Virtual Nikeland/Roblox Experience to NYC Store
Rolling Stone
Louie Anderson Took His Time and Reminded Me to Do the Same, Remembers Paul Feig
Sportico
UConn, NCAA Blasted Over Due Process in Kevin Ollie Award Decision
SPY