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Martin Hesselmeier and Andreas Muxel, capacitative body II, 2011, at LEAP, Berlin

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BERLIN PLUGGED IN
by Rachel Corbett

June 22, 2012

Berlin is often described as a city in an endless state of becoming. After the wall fell in 1989, artists, entrepreneurs and experimenters of all stripes began colonizing the city's big, underpopulated buildings, where rents were low and there was little to lose. Now, Chelsea-caliber galleries line the old East Berlin thoroughfare Augustrasse and a stream of tech startups like SoundCloud have rebranded the city "Silicon Allee." Along with precision engineering and techno music, Berlin has also become a home for digital and electronic art.
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Rachel Corbett Archives

June 18, 2012	Art Basel 2012 THE PRIVATE MUSEUM TAKEOVER by Rachel Corbett Jeffrey Deitch on the threat of private museums to fundraising and programming at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

June 15, 2012	Art Market Watch ART BASEL LOOKS TO ASIA by Rachel Corbett News of Uli Sigg's major donation to a Hong Kong museum spurs forecasts of an Asianized Art Basel.

June 13, 2012	Liste 2012 BASEL'S INDEPENDENT ART FAIR by Rachel Corbett A slideshow tour of Liste 13, Basel's indiest art fair.

June 8, 2012	Documenta 13 HELICOPTER RIDES COURTESY CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE by Rachel Corbett A Public Misery Message: A Temporary Monument to Global Economic Inequality.

June 7, 2012	Documenta 2012 BOMBS AWAY by Rachel Corbett Ruin, trauma and political strife mark the preview to Documenta 13 -- and that's not just the art.

June 4, 2012	Let's Go Art DOCUMENTA, BASEL AND BEYOND by Rachel Corbett A jetsetter's guide to Basel, Documenta, Manifesta, the Berlin Biennale and other highlights from Europe's June art season.

June 1, 2012	Revolving Doors LIFE AFTER D'AMELIO TERRAS by Rachel Corbett After parting ways with longtime business partner Lucien Terras six months ago, Chris D'Amelio shares his ambitions for the new D'Amelio Gallery.

May 16, 2012	Storm King Art Center LET THERE BE LIGHT by Rachel Corbett The Storm King Art Center opens "Light and Landscape," an unusual tribute to the Hudson River School painters.

May 11, 2012	Art Market Watch PHILLIPS DE PURY SETS NEW BASQUIAT RECORD by Rachel Corbett New records for Jean-Michel Basquiat, Seth Price and Dana Schutz at Phillips de Pury & Company's contemporary evening sale, May 10, 2012.

May 8, 2012	Party Pictures LUSH LIFE by Rachel Corbett Karen Kilimnik's new exhibition opens at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Conn.

May 4, 2012	Frieze New York TRENDSPOTTING AT FRIEZE by Rachel Corbett Art made out of toys, trash, yarn and more at the 2012 Frieze Art Fair in New York.

Apr. 25, 2012	Frieze New York GUIDE TO THE NEW FRIEZE WEEK NY by Rachel Corbett An all new week of spring art events is upon us with the inauguration of Frieze New York. Don’t miss the action with this guide to Frieze, the satellite fairs, the auctions and beyond.

Apr. 24, 2012	Artnet News CONDÉ NAST FIGHTS TO DISMISS LIBEL LAWSUIT by Rachel Corbett While Condé Nast argues in court for the dismissal of Peter Paul Biro's libel lawsuit, Biro's attorney seeks to step up the claims against the media empire and the New Yorker.

Apr. 18, 2012	Lagrange v. Knoedler LAWYERS CHASE ELUSIVE FIGURE IN KNOEDLER LAWSUIT by Rachel Corbett Lawyers for Pierre Lagrange, buyer of a $17 mil possibly fake Jackson Pollock from Knoedler & Co., have turned their attention to gallery owner Michael Hammer.

Apr. 12, 2012	Artnet News GUGGENHEIM GOES GLOBAL by Rachel Corbett Tired of its Eurocentric ways, the Guggenheim announces plans to acquire and exhibit artworks from the lesser-traveled corners of the globe.

Mar. 30, 2012	AIPAD Photo Show ALL THE ACTION AT AIPAD by Rachel Corbett Strolling the halls at the 32nd annual AIPAD photography fair.

Mar. 23, 2012	Exit Art EXIT INTERVIEW by Rachel Corbett The beloved indie-art space says goodbye with a final exhibition, "Every Exit is an Entrance," a retrospective of its own 30-year history.

Mar. 22, 2012	Art Market Watch HOW BIG IS THE GLOBAL ART MARKET? by Rachel Corbett A new report from The European Fine Art Foundation slices and dices the global art market.

Mar. 9, 2012	THE INDEPENDENT COMES OF AGE by Rachel Corbett See why the über-international Independent fair gives its name-brand competitors a run for their money.

Mar. 8, 2012	ARMORY SHOW 2012 by Rachel Corbett Raised spirits at the VIP preview for the 2012 Armory Show.

Mar. 1, 2012	Brucennial 2012 HIGH AND LOW by Rachel Corbett Highlights from the Brucennial, the parody version of the Whitney Biennial put on by the agitator-art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation.

Feb. 21, 2012	Cindy Sherman MASQUERADE BALL by Rachel Corbett With a 40-year career retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art, the chameleon photographer is still looking to the future.

Feb. 15, 2012	Yayoi Kusama THE LAST WORD by Rachel Corbett A new memoir by the eccentric 82-year-old "polka-dot painter" is a catalogue of surprisingly entertaining mind scraps..

Jan. 25, 2012	Cariou v. Prince CARIOU FIGHTS COPYRIGHT APPEAL by Rachel Corbett Patrick Cariou's lawyers filed an appellate brief today challenging Richard Prince and Larry Gagosian's attempts to appeal last year's copyright defeat.

Jan. 24, 2012	WEEGEE FEVER! TABLOID PHOTOG GETS FOUR SHOWS by Rachel Corbett America's obsession with the police procedural appears to have hit the art world. The International Center of Photography has just opened the largest of four new exhibitions on hard-boiled Depression-era crime photographer Weegee.

Jan. 20, 2012	Bushwick Art Scene BIGFOOT IN BUSHWICK by Rachel Corbett With a scattering of new galleries and next month's arrival of Luhring Augustine, locals debate what's next for the prospering Bushwick art scene.

Jan. 18, 2012	ART OF VIDEO GAMES AT THE SMITHSONIAN by Rachel Corbett A new exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art explores 40 years of visual effects, design and storytelling in video-game history

Jan. 18, 2012	IS CORRUPTION BEHIND THE CHINESE ART BOOM? by Rachel Corbett Art-market analysts have been aflutter since news hit that two Chinese artists, Zhang Daqian and Qi Bashi, took over the top auction-earner spots last year -- beating out Picasso and Warhol. But is corruption behind the results?

Jan. 18, 2012	GERTRUDE STEIN SHOW PROMPTS CENSOR by Rachel Corbett Penny Starr, the conservative writer and activist who led the (successful) crusade to censor David Wojnarowicz at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. is back with a new outrage -- Gertrude Stein.

Jan. 13, 2012	Maurizio Cattelan FAMILY BUSINESS GALLERY OPENS AT ANNA KUSTERA by Rachel Corbett He's not retired yet -- Maurizio Cattelan teams up again with curator Massimiliano Gioni to open a mini-gallery in Chelsea.

Jan. 12, 2012	ANTI-IMMIGRANT AUTHOR TARGETED AT BERLIN BIENNALE by Rachel Corbett Czech artist Martin Zet is waging war against Thilo Sarrazin, author of the anti-immigrant bestseller Germany is Destroying Itself, by collecting as many copies of the book as possible for an upcoming installation at the Berlin Biennale.

Jan. 11, 2012	Damien Hirst HOT SPOTS by Rachel Corbett With spot paintings at all 11 Gagosian galleries around the globe, Damien Hirst dominates once again, and he's still bored by it all.

Jan. 10, 2012	ISLAMIC HAJJ AT BRITISH MUSEUM by Rachel Corbett The British Museum in London collaborated with Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz Public Library to organize the new exhibition, "Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam," exploring the Islamic pilgrimage through 200 objects from 13 different countries.

Jan. 10, 2012	HENRY O. TANNER IN PHILADELPHIA by Rachel Corbett Plans for a new Guggenheim satellite museum in Helsinki took a stride forward today with the release of a year-long impact study from the city.

Jan. 10, 2012	Malanga v. Chamberlain THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING CHAMBERLAIN WARHOL by Rachel Corbett Where is 315 Johns, the putative Andy Warhol portrait of John Chamberlain?

Jan. 4, 2012	PRINCE & PICASSO, TOGETHER AT LAST by Rachel Corbett Why is Richard Prince having a show at the Museo Picasso Malaga?

Dec. 22, 2011	STUDENT VIDS FROM KALUP LINZY'S NYU CLASS by Rachel Corbett Proud professor Kalup Linzy, who has made a career out of his soulful, gender-bending, kitsch drag act, has posted student videos on YouTube from his NYU class "Music, Melodrama and Performance Art."

Dec. 20, 2011	ART-FAIR FORTUNE TELLERS IN COPYCAT FIGHT by Rachel Corbett Two Miami artists who both perform fortune teller acts are in a feud over who came up with the idea first.

Dec. 20, 2011	SUPPORT BRAVO, BUY YOUR OWN "WORK OF ART" by Rachel Corbett Bravo is selling works on overstockart.com made by contestants on the second season of Work of Art -- and the network's keeping the profits.

Dec. 19, 2011	Jean-Luc Moulène MINIMUM OPUS by Rachel Corbett Dia:Beacon takes its chances with a little-known French sculptor and photographer in a sprawling new year-long exhibition.

Dec. 12, 2011	DANIEL ARSHAM FOR MERCE CUNNINGHAM FINALE by Rachel Corbett Daniel Arsham designed the set, lighting and costumes for the final stop on Merce Cunningham's two-year "Legacy" tour.

Dec. 12, 2011	REPORTER OPENS POLITICAL ART GALLERY by Rachel Corbett Veteran PBS and Washington Post correspondent Charles Krause opens a gallery for politically themed art.

Dec. 12, 2011	TOUGH ROAD AHEAD FOR ABU DHABI ART by Rachel Corbett Abu Dhabi Art was slow this year, no doubt thanks to the Arab Spring, stalled plans for the proposed cultural mecca on Saadiyat Island and new competition from growing art hub Qatar.

Dec. 7, 2011	VOINA ART ACTIVIST ESCAPES FROM RUSSIAN JAIL by Rachel Corbett Russian activist and Voina art collective member Leonid Nikolaev documents his dramatic escape from police custody on his blog.

Nov. 29, 2011	FBI INVESTIGATES AB-EX DEALER, KNOEDLER'S CLOSES by Rachel Corbett 165-year-old Knoedler & Co. closes its doors amid an FBI investigation into a ring of Ab-Ex forgeries that passed through its doors..

Dec. 6, 2011	Miami Art Week SALES HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ART FAIRS by Rachel Corbett A round-up of what sold at Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse Miami, Art Miami and more.

Nov. 29, 2011	MARTIN CREED AT LONDON'S SKETCH RESTAURANT by Rachel Corbett YBA Conceptualist and Turner Prize winner Martin Creed takes over London restaurant the Gallery at Sketch.

Nov. 18, 2011	JANINE GORDON CHALLENGES RYAN MCGINLEY COPYRIGHT DECISION by Rachel Corbett Photographer Janine Gordon lost her copyright case against Ryan McGinley this summer, but now she's filed a notice of appeal -- and she plans to represent herself

Nov. 17, 2011	David Altmejd CREATION THEORY by Rachel Corbett Peter Brant's newest star, David Altmejd, transforms the rustic Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Conn., into a bizarre cosmos of the beautiful and the grotesque.

Nov. 14, 2011	Joseph Nahmad NAHMAD EMPIRE EXPANDS INTO CONTEMPORARY ART by Rachel Corbett Say hello to 21-year-old Joseph Nahmad, who is spurning his family's Impressionist and modern art business in favor of contemporary art.

Nov. 10, 2011	CHAMBERLAIN, WOODMAN, PICASSO AND MORE AT THE GUGGENHEIM by Rachel Corbett John Chamberlain, Rineke Dijkstra, Francesca Woodman, Pablo Picasso and more come to the Guggenheim in 2012.

Nov. 8, 2011	Art Market Watch A GOOD $71.2 MILLION AT PHILLIPS DE PURY by Rachel Corbett Phillips de Pury contemporary art evening sale pushes into the big leagues -- and raises $2.7 mil for the Guggenheim Museum.

Nov. 7, 2011	Walton Ford MONKEY MAN by Rachel Corbett Daphne Guinness, Padma Lakshmi and friends celebrate wildlife painter Walton Ford’s new show at Paul Kasmin Gallery.

Nov. 1, 2011	NAHMAD GALLERY SUED FOR ALLEGEDLY LOOTED MODIGLIANI by Rachel Corbett The sole heir to a Jewish dealer who was looted by Nazis is suing Helly Nahmad Gallery for the return of a pricy Amedeo Modigliani.

Oct. 28, 2011	ARMORY SHOW TOASTS THEASTER GATES by Rachel Corbett Rising star and Armory Show artist Theaster Gates worked the crowd at a party in his honor last night at Rose Bar.

Oct. 28, 2011	THE MULTIPLE POPES OF MAURIZIO CATTELAN by Rachel Corbett Maurizio Cattelan's supposed to be retired, yet a factory in Carrara has been manufacturing marble replicas of his sculptures. Is Cattelan, like Duchamp before him, securing his legacy with an end-of-career archive?

Oct. 26, 2011	Carsten Höller FUNHOUSE AT THE NEW MUSEUM by Rachel Corbett Slides, flashing lights, drugs and more in the New Museum's immersive Carsten Holler retrospective.

Oct. 20, 2011	Andy Warhol Foundation WARHOL FOUNDATION TO QUIT AUTHENTICATING WORKS by Rachel Corbett After spending millions on legal battles with the owners of rejected Warhols, the foundation dissolves its powerful authentication board.

Oct. 20, 2011	Frieze Art Fair LONELY AMERICANS by Rachel Corbett Led by Richter and Rauch, sales at the Frieze Art Fair swam along steadily, despite the absence of American collectors.

Oct. 18, 2011	Frieze Art Fair FRIEZE WEEK SIDESHOWS: FRAME AND SLUICE by Rachel Corbett Inside Frame, the Frieze Art Fair's own satellite fair, plus the new artist-inspired Sluice Art Fair.

Oct. 17, 2011	Kalup Linzy LONDON FRIEZE OUT? by Rachel Corbett After a cool reception to his Frieze week performance, Kalup Linzy talks London vs. New York, the revival of his soul-singer persona Taiwan and what's next for him and James Franco.

Oct. 14, 2011	ULI SIGG AT FRIEZE: CHINESE ART MUSEUM IN THE WORKS by Rachel Corbett Swiss media exec and collector Uli Sigg reveals during a talk at the Frieze Art Fair that he has more power over the Chinese art world than we might realize.

Oct. 12, 2011	Keszler & Banksy PEST CONTROL STYMIES KESZLER GALLERY SALES by Rachel Corbett New York dealer Stephan Keszler does battle with Pest Control over the market for Street Art works by Banksy.

Oct. 11, 2011	Frieze Art Fair FRIEZE WEEK GUIDE 2011 by Rachel Corbett Highlights from Frieze and the legions of satellite events setting up around London.

Oct. 7, 2011	ARTPRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED by Rachel Corbett Big, emotive and religious-themed artworks were the top winners at the big-budget annual ArtPrize competition in Michigan.

Oct. 5, 2011	DAVID SMITH AT THE WHITNEY by Rachel Corbett An elegant new exhibition at the Whitney traces sculptor David Smith's career-long obsession with geometric abstraction.

Oct. 5, 2011	SCHWARZENEGGER, SOPHIA LOREN GO BRONZE by Rachel Corbett Is Arnold Schwarzenegger seeking a new judgment day? The disgraced former governor has commissioned a whole passel of bulging, 580-pound bronze statues of himself.

Sept. 29, 2011	HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NY ART BOOK FAIR 2011 by Rachel Corbett New York Art Book Fair producer AA Bronson shares highlights from the upcoming fair, opening this weekend at MoMA PS1.

Sept. 28, 2011	Art Market Watch HUFFING AND PUFFING by Rachel Corbett Five "tune-up" sales of contemporary art in New York kick off the fall auction season.

Sept. 27, 2011	Art Market Watch MODERN MARKET PREDICTIONS FROM "ARTELLIGENCE" by Rachel Corbett Miró, Matisse, Leger, Kandinsky and more art market advice for big spenders from the "Artelligence" conference.

Sept. 26, 2010	3 NEW FAIRS OPEN IN L.A., 1 PUSHED OUT by Rachel Corbett Will Los Angeles overtake Miami Beach as the ultimate sun-and-sand art destination? The city's got three new fairs in the works -- and one gets pushed out..

Sept. 23, 2011	Sterling Ruby THE PRINCIPLES OF ETERNITY by Rachel Corbett The venerated Los Angeles artist secures his legacy.

Sept. 19, 2011	GRAFFITI ARTIST HONORS SLAIN EGYPTIAN ACTIVIST by Rachel Corbett A slain Egyptian blogger who became the face of the nation's revolution last spring is being honored with a portrait on the Berlin Wall painted by his sister and German graffiti artist Case.

Sept. 15, 2011	Cariou vs. Prince: A WIN FOR RICHARD PRINCE IN COPYRIGHT CASE by Rachel Corbett Judges gave Richard Prince the green-light yesterday to appeal Patrick Cariou’s copyright lawsuit. Prince’s attorney shares his legal srategy.

Sept. 7, 2011	THE ART OF THINGS AT CUNY GRADUATE CENTER by Rachel Corbett An exhibition at the CUNY Graduate Center takes on Speculative Realism, a philosophical theory that's getting increased attention in the art world.

Sept. 1, 2011	Artnet News GALLERIES DEFEND CONTROVERSIAL BANKSY SHOW by Rachel Corbett Street Art fans have denounced the Southampton exhibition of unauthenticated Banksy works excavated from the West Bank of Palestine. But now the galleries say they saved the works from destruction.

Aug. 31, 2011	Art Jocks FITNESS GURU TO THE ART ELITE OPENS GALLERY by Rachel Corbett Peter Hionas is capitalizing on his reputation as perhaps the only personal trainer catering to the art world by opening up a gallery -- connected to his Tribeca gym, of course.

Aug. 30, 2011	BANKSY FANS DECRY REMOVAL OF STREET ART WORKS FROM PALESTINE by Rachel Corbett Banksy fans are up in arms about a new Southampton exhibition that includes two works by the street artist that were literally cut out of the cinder block and stone walls of Palestine.

Aug. 25, 2011	SPONGEBOB ARTIST TODD WHITE SUES DEALER by Rachel Corbett The case of the bizarre lawsuit against painter and former SpongeBob cartoonist Todd White just keeps getting weirder.

Aug. 19, 2011	DISMISSED! JUDGE TOSSES COPYRIGHT LAWSUIT AGAINST RYAN MCGINLEY by Rachel Corbett A district court judge dismisses photographer Janine Gordon’s controversial lawsuit for copyright infringement against fellow photographer Ryan McGinley.

Aug. 18, 2011	Artnet News REMEMBERING 9/11 by Rachel Corbett New York art institutions join in the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Aug. 16, 2011	LAWSUIT OVER SPONGEBOB ART by Rachel Corbett An Orange County gallery owner is suing Todd White, the artist behind SpongeBob SquarePants, for $5.5 million for allegedly orchestrating a coup of her The Gallery HB at the Hyatt, and stealing her client list and art works.

Aug. 12, 2011	FUTURISM FOR FOODIES by Rachel Corbett A Futurist installation in D.C. serves visitors chewable pizza capsules, "scent-based" salad and other dishes inspired by F.T. Marinetti's classic 1936 manifesto, The Futurist Cookbook.

Aug. 10, 2011	*DIA NEGOTIATES SPIRAL JETTY* LEASE** by Rachel Corbett As expected, Dia announces that a new lease with the Utah Division of Forestry is in the works for the land that's home to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty.

Aug. 8, 2011	MCQUEEN IS EIGHTH MOST-VISITED EXHIBITION IN MET HISTORY by Rachel Corbett "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" is the eighth most popular exhibition in the Met's history.

Aug. 5, 2011	Art Market Watch SOTHEBY'S BESTS CHRISTIE'S WITH $3.4 BILLION IN 2011 FIRST-HALF SALES by Rachel Corbett The Chinese market boosted sales at both houses, but Sotheby's bests Christie's in the first half of 2011.

Aug. 3, 2011	Deitch Projects Artists WHERE ARE THEY NOW? by Rachel Corbett Checking in with Deitch's displaced artists a year after the legendary gallery closed its doors.

July 27, 2011	GAGOSIAN PLANNING BOB DYLAN PAINTING SHOW? by Rachel Corbett Gagosian Gallery has quietly listed Bob Dylan as a represented artist on its website, and word on Facebook has it that the megadealer's already been selling works for a forthcoming exhibition..

July 27, 2011	JAMES FRANCO TEACHES SUMMER SCHOOL AT MOMA PS1 by Rachel Corbett Sign up now for Professor James Franco's "Summer School" classes at MoMA PS1!

July 22, 2011	Art Market Watch STRONG HALF-YEAR SALES AT CHRISTIE'S by Rachel Corbett Will China overtake the U.S. art market once and for all? Christie's sales data for the first half of the year makes it seem possible.

July 11, 2011	Art & Copyright RYAN MCGINLEY SUED IN COPYRIGHT CASE by Rachel Corbett Will Janine Gordon's suit against Ryan McGinley cloud the free-wheeling photographer's beautiful, bare-skinned summer?

July 1, 2011	Prospect.2 Biennial BLUES ON THE BAYOU by Rachel Corbett Reduced ambition -- and budgets -- mark Prospect.2, the long-awaited second New Orleans biennial.

June 27, 2011	THE CASE OF THE 20-YEAR-OLD ART SALE by Rachel Corbett Manhattan dealer Richard Feigen's been slapped with a lawsuit over the provenance of a 19th-century Rosa Bonheur painting he sold 20 years ago. Do the plaintiffs have a case?

June 24, 2011	Dakis Joannou AEGEAN ANOMIE by Rachel Corbett Dakis Joannou invites Doug Aitken, Chloë Sevigny and 300 lucky guests to his annual art-world extravaganza on Hydra Island.

June 24, 2011	Dakis Joannou AEGEAN ANOMIE by Rachel Corbett Dakis Joannou invites Doug Aitken, Chloë Sevigny and 300 lucky guests to his annual art-world extravaganza on Hydra Island.

June 10, 2011	Brian Donnelly KAWSCAPADES by Rachel Corbett Art and design sensation KAWS installs his 16-foot-tall bashful mouse sculpture on The Standard hotel plaza.

June 9, 2011	Art Market Watch NO GO FOR CHRISTIE'S IPO? by Rachel Corbett Is French luxury tycoon François Pinault looking to take Christie’s public?

June 6, 2011	ARTISTS STAR IN NEW "REALITY TV" SHOW by Rachel Corbett PBS launches its younger, sexier, "lifestyle" spinoff of Art21, New York Close Up.

June 6, 2011	NO END TO GUGG BOYCOTT by Rachel Corbett There's no end in sight to the artist-led boycott of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

June 3, 2011	Art Market Watch BOTERO & THE GANG by Rachel Corbett $48 million in sales at Latin American art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York in late May.

May 31, 2011	ARTNET NEWS The mysterious death of Wlodzimierz Ksiazek. Plus, Art HK 11, Steve Martin's forged Campendonck, Peter Brant raises funds, National Academy reopens.

May 26, 2011	WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WHITNEY ART PARTY by Rachel Corbett Amar'e Stoudemire, Shala Monroque, Jason Wu and more at the 2011 Whitney Art Party.

May 26, 2011	Art Market Watch DULL AMERICAN? by Rachel Corbett The American art market looks weaker than it is in May auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

May 24, 2011	ANDRÉ LEON TALLEY, THE GALLERY by Rachel Corbett Vogue's Andre Leon Talley announces plans for a new costume gallery at his alma mater, the Savannah College of Art and Design.

May 23, 2011	Alexander Melamid THE HEALING ARTS by Rachel Corbett New York artist Alexander Melamid launches his new Art Healing Ministry in SoHo.

May 18, 2011	Art Market Watch BATTLING ART FAIRS HIT SAN FRANCISCO by Rachel Corbett Three new art fairs -- the San Francisco Fine Arts Fair, artMRKT San Francisco and ArtPadSF -- open this weekend in a city that two years ago had none.