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Our 5 Favourite Booths at Frieze New York 2015

Located under one monumental vibrant white tent, the 2015 Frieze Art Fair which ended this past weekend hosted over 190 galleries from all over the world, including 63 galleries from New York alone. With over a thousand participating artists, Frieze can be an exhilarating yet overwhelming viewing experience — while most galleries usually select a range of their represented artists, several galleries this year boldly transformed their booths into inventive and inspiring installations. 

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Rudolf Stingel - Untitled (2012)

Gagosian Gallery Exhibition of Photographs From William Eggleston’s Los Alamos 

I just wait until [my subject] appears, which is often where I happen to be. Might be something right across the street. Might be something on down the road. And I’m usually very pleased when I get the image back. It’s usually exactly what I saw. I don’t have any favorites. Every picture is equal but different. —William Eggleston

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs from William Eggleston’s Los Alamos series. This will be Eggleston’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since 2004.

DAMIEN HIR$T CHANGED HI$ MIND

Back in 2008, ingenious plagiarist, snatch decorator, and hobbyist drug counselorDamien Hirst declared that he shall no longer be making candy-color dot paintings. Panic ensued. In a 2-day Sotheby’s grab-a-thon, 21,000 visitors swiftly rushed to buy up hundreds of Hirst-works for $200.7 million (cha-ching), especially those rare, extinct dots because there isn’t going to be any more, gasp!.. Guess who’s making dots again?

Psych!

Only recently did Hirst profess that he has “moved on” and “definitely done enough” dots, spots, spin-paintings and corpse menageries, but you can see a grand retrospective of his spots and dots at all 11 Gagosian galleries, Jan 12 – Feb 18, across the world. Simultaneously, there’s more dots a’comin’ because Hirst has had a signature “change of heart.” The dot paintings sell at $100,000 – $1.8 million.

Connect the dots! Let’s go shopping!

The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2010 Edition

5 — Chinese Artists: Hmmmm … all the buzz has died down? Hath the art world’s ADHD moved on to other things? Ai Weiwei is the only one to make the list. Now that China is sure to become the world’s biggest economy (give it 10 years), their human-rights-violation-inspired performance art isn’t as compelling. We all know that the real human rights violation are the budget cuts preventing us from travelling to the Biennale next year!

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