WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson

It’s not that we have too many art fairs. It’s that we have too many artists. Call it a “luxury problem.”

The other day I went over to Friedrich Petzel Gallery on West 22nd Street in Chelsea to drop off a Beck’s beer bottle with a hand-written art review stuffed inside it -- if you must know, something for a Christian Jankowski show, which opens there next month -- and decided to take a look around.

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Artnet Design
THE FANCIFUL REALM OF LALANNE
by Brook S. Mason
May 18, 2012
Over 30 whimsical works by Claude Lalanne, 89, and her late husband François-Xavier Lalanne, at Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea.

Art HK 2012
POST-COLONIAL CONTEMPORARY ART
by Barbara Pollack
May 18, 2012
With 260 galleries from 38 countries -- half of them Asian -- Art HK 2012 kicks it up a notch.

Dawoud Bey
PICTURING PEOPLE
by Pedro Vélez
May 18, 2012
A retrospective of Chicago favorite son Dawoud Bey at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

Art Market Watch
THE SPLIT IN THE MARKET
by Charlie Finch
May 17, 2012
When a rising tide lifts but one ship, its cargo of gold might one day sink.

Eugene Lemay
FLYING BLIND: EUGENE LEMAY'S ABSTRACTIONS
by Donald Kuspit
May 17, 2012
Darkness and light in the paintings of Israeli artist Eugene Lemay at Mike Weiss Gallery in New York.

Party Pictures
WSJ "DONOR OF THE DAY" CELEBRATION AT THE WHITNEY
Photos by Billy Farrell
May 17, 2012
The Wall Street Journal and Jeff Koons team up to celebrate private philanthropy with a dinner at the Whitney Museum.

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

Art Market Watch
WERNER MUENSTERBERGER AND AFRICAN ART AT SOTHEBY'S NEW YORK
by Jessica Mizrachi
May 16, 2012
African art from the collection of art scholar Werner Muensterberger, who theorized that collecting was an Oedipal passion.

TOM SACHS GROWS OLD
by Charlie Finch
May 16, 2012
Old age not youth is the key to the Tom Sachs "Space Program: Mars" installation at the Park Avenue Armory.

Tom Sachs
SPACE JAM
by Emily Nathan
May 15, 2012
The art-world's preeminent bricoleur transforms the historic Park Avenue Armory into a DIY aeronautical workshop.

MOCA L.A.
PAINTING FACTORY
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
May 15, 2012
Jeffrey Deitch's hand-crafted "Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Egyptian Art
BABY STEPS
by Jerry Saltz
May 15, 2012
Where does modern art history start? The Met's predynastic-Egypt show reveals the beginning of everything.

James Franco
REBEL IN HOLLYWOOD?
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
May 15, 2012
James Franco collaborates with a host of bad-boy artists for a pop-up Los Angeles exhibition devoted to James Dean.

NYC Gallery Shows
THE NEW YORK LIST, 5/14/2012
by Emily Nathan
May 14, 2012
Francesco Clemente, Alice Neel, Jutta Koether, Gary Hume, Dana Schutz.

Art Market Watch
BOUGUEREAU AT SOTHEBY'S, PLUS, DERSHOWITZ COLLECTS
by Jessica Mizrachi
May 14, 2012
Sotheby's New York does $20.6 million at its European art sale, plus Alan Dershowitz chastises the Met, and sends some art to auction.

Gallery Weekend Berlin
52 ART DEALERS IN BERLIN
Photos by Marco Funke
May 14, 2012
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, a portfolio of art dealers in the German capital city.

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

Philadelphia Museum of Art
ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA
by Emily Nathan
May 11, 2012
Sol LeWitt, "Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse," Winslow Homer, Duchamp's Large Glass and more at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Frieze New York
CRITICS & THE FAIRPOCALYPSE
by Pedro Vélez
May 11, 2012
Art critics complain about the marriage of art and money, but can you find them on the picket line?

Art Market Watch
SOTHEBY'S CONTEMPORARY DOES $266.6 MILLION
May 10, 2012
Eight-figure prices for Bacon, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Twombly and Richter mark a robust spring sale.

Antico
A REDISCOVERED RENAISSANCE MASTER
by N.F. Karlins
May 10, 2012
Renaissance bronzes by Italian sculptor Antico (ca. 1455 - 1528) at the Frick Collection.

Lynn Stern
PHOTO ABSTRACTIONS
by Donald Kuspit
May 10, 2012
Lynn Stern’s “Veiled Still Lives” and “Ghosts” are all but pure abstractions, the grand climax of more than a century of experimentation.

Close Encounters
SCHIAPARELLI AND PRADA AT THE MET
by Linda Yablonsky
May 9, 2012
“Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conservations” at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art Market Watch
CHRISTIE'S CONTEMPORARY DOES A RECORD $388 MILLION
May 9, 2012
On auctioneer Christopher Burge's final night at the podium, a historic sale with no less than 11 new auction records.

Norman Bluhm
WHAT'S WRONG AND RIGHT ABOUT ONE PAINTING
by Charlie Finch
May 9, 2012
The office lobby at 499 Park gets a mural-sized painting by the late baroque abstractionist Norman Bluhm (1921-1999.)

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

ARTNET NEWS
May 8, 2012
Thaddaeus Ropac's new Paris art complex, critics discuss Defining Contemporary Art at MoMA, dates set for Art Basel Hong Kong.

Beth Campbell
BETHLEHEM
by Charlie Finch
May 8, 2012
Conceptual artist Beth Campbell transforms the cosmos into social media.

Frieze New York 2012
MOVING IN AND
MOVING UP
by Jerry Saltz
May 8, 2012
Why the Frieze Art Fair could solve the New York art fair problem.

ArtnetTV
LIZ MAGIC LASER:
THE DIGITAL FACE
by Emily Nathan
May 7, 2012
Liz Magic Laser's The Digital Face at the McKittrick Hotel for the Calder Foundation's "Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap," May 5, 2012.

Darren Bader
HORNY DIP
by Charlie Finch
May 7, 2012
Darren Bader's French Horn with Guacamole was the hit of Frieze NY -- now, let's parse its meaning.

Artnet Design
DESIGN AT NADA NEW YORK
by Brook S. Mason
May 7, 2012
Finds at Cumulus Studios, Anat Egbi's Company, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Galerie Jacky Strenz, New Galerie from Paris, and the Artis Shuk.

Party Pictures
NEW ART DEBUTS AT FRIEZE NY 2012
Photos by Walter Robinson
May 4, 2012
Frieze New York opens, bringing 180 contemporary art galleries to Randall's Island in the East River.

Frieze Projects 2012
STEP OUTSIDE
by Emily Nathan
May 4, 2012
The eight artist commissions for this year's Frieze Projects, curated by Cecilia Alemani, stand out amidst an otherwise business-as-usual art fair.

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

Art Market Watch
THE SCREAM: SOTHEBY'S IMP & MOD DOES $330.6 MILLION
May 3, 2012
A huge 76-lot sale, led by the record-setting Munch The Scream at $119.9 million.

Cultural Olympiad 2012
ART AT THE HEART OF THE GAME
by Emily Nathan
May 3, 2012
The first-ever Cultural Olympiad, held in conjunction with London's 2012 Olympic Games, brings 12,000 cultural events by 25,000 international artists to the U.K.

Art Market Watch
WHAT MONEY LIKES
by Charlie Finch
May 3, 2012
The sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream for $119 million prompts a definition of "market esthetics."

Party Pictures
FRIEZE WARM-UP
May 3, 2012
In advance of the art fairs, a quick look at some gallery and museum shows not to be missed.

Art Market Watch
CHRISTIE'S IMP & MOD DOES $117 MILLION
May 2, 2012
A $19 million Cezanne, a $19 million Matisse, a $10 million Picasso, ho-hum.

Tennessee Williams
STELLA AND HER STARS
by Tony Fitzpatrick
May 2, 2012
Tony Fitzpatrick pays homage to the great American playwright, Tennessee Williams, who wrote insightful and empathetic roles for women that have no equal.

NEW THIS MONTH
IN U.S. MUSEUMS
May 2, 2012
Renaissance Bronzes, Phyllida Barlow, Taryn Simon, Edouard Vuillard, "Craft Spoken Here," Joan Miró, Mark Dion, Ai Weiwei, Roy Lichtenstein, Christer Strömholm, Omer Fast, "Maharaja," José Bedia, Land Art, more.

Artnet Design
"FOG" IN SAN FRANCISCO, MODERNISM IN NYC, AND A BERTOIA MAQUETTE
by Brook S. Mason
May 2, 2012
A special screen by Harry Bertoia, plus new modernist fairs in San Francisco and New York.

New Art
MAGIC AMID THE MONEY
by Jerry Saltz
May 1, 2012
Reject the market. Embrace the market. How I’ve found new magic amid all that money.

ARTNET NEWS
May 1, 2012
New York critics head to Grand Rapids to judge the $100,000 ArtPrize, plus, the art world responds to May Day, and Rachel Feinstein’s rose for Creative Time.

Close Encounters
THE 4TH ANNUAL DALLAS ART FAIR
by Linda Yablonsky
May 1, 2012
Almost 80 galleries gathered in the Big D for a Texas-style art fair.

SPRINGTIME IN PARIS
by Elisabeth Kley
Apr. 30, 2012
“Arthur Rainbow” at Air de Paris, with Dorothy Iannone, Jean-Luc Verna and others, plus André Raffray, Richard Kern, Ryan Gander and Gelitin in the City of Light.

Art Horoscope
THE MAY PERSPECTIVE
by Leigh Oswald
Apr. 30, 2012
Venus in retrograde demands a serious review of what really matters.

Paul Etienne Lincoln
GILDING THE ACORN
by Elisabeth Kley
Apr. 23, 2012
Artist Paul Etienne Lincoln unveils his poetic, hand-tooled machine -- a singing, schnapps-dispensing mechanical pig -- at Tribeca's Duane Park cabaret.

SOFA NY 2012
A REINVIGORATED FAIR
by Brook S. Mason
Apr. 23, 2012
The 15th annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA) Fair opens at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

Christopher Wool
CONTROLLED BELLIGERENCE
by Elizabeth Kley
Apr. 18, 2012
A new exhibition of Christopher Wool's silkscreens on canvas at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.

Party Pictures
OUT WITH RASHID JOHNSON
Photos by Pedro Vélez
Apr. 18, 2012
New York artist Rashid Johnson opens "Message for Our Folks" at the MCA Chicago.

Egyptian Art
EGYPT, THE EARLY YEARS
by N.F. Karlins
Apr. 16, 2012
A look at the mysterious relics from the predynastic era in “The Dawn of Egyptian Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bill Powers
THE ART LOVER
by Walter Robinson
Apr. 11, 2012
Bill Powers new book, What We Lose in Flowers, has surprises, and truth.

Shanxi Tombs
ALL THE UNDERWORLD'S A STAGE
by N.F. Karlins
Mar. 20, 2012
A new exhibition at the China Institute in Manhattan looks at "Theater, Life and the Afterlife" during China's Jin Dynasy.

People Pictures
ARMORY WEEK 2012
Photos by Paul Laster
Mar. 14, 2012
Remembering Armory Week 2012 via photos from a week of exhibitions, dinners and parties, Mar. 5-11, 2012.

THE STEINS COLLECT: AN IRREVERENT REPORT
by Michèle C. Cone
Mar. 7, 2012
The history of 20th-century art was written on the walls of their homes by Leo, Gertrude, Michael and Sarah Stein.

Diary of an Art Star
OCCUPY WINE BAR AT THE 2012 WHITNEY BIENNIAL
by Reverend Jen
Mar. 5, 2012
The cheese is back at the Whitney Biennial, and all is well in America.

Charles Atlas
MAPPING NEW TERRITORY
by Elisabeth Kley
Feb. 27, 2012
Dancing, morphing numbers from Charles Atlas inaugurate Luhring Augustine's new Bushwick space.

Rosenblum & Seltzer
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
by Elisabeth Kley
Feb. 23, 2012
A perfectly coordinated, perfectly kitsch and perfectly repulsive tango of absurdity from Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer at The Hole.

Arte Fiera 2012
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
by Mark Kostabi
Feb. 8, 2012
This time around, Arte Fiera in Bologna was better for the flaneurs than the dealers.

Simone Leigh
MOUTHING OFF
by Elizabeth Kley
Jan. 27, 2012
The pioneering black artist "channels the power of prehistoric female craft" with a monumental exhibition of new work at The Kitchen.

Diary of an Art Star
EXCLUSIVE! AN INTERVIEW WITH HANKSY
by Reverend Jen
Jan. 17, 2012
Who is "Hanksy," the mysterious new artist taking the Lower East Side by storm? Reverend Jen has the exclusive report.