Every city of any note, from Houston to San Francisco to Aspen, Palm Springs and East Hampton, seems to have its own art fair these days. So when news came earlier this week of plans to shut down the 30-year-old Art Chicago, which was once counted as the second most important art fair after Art Basel, you had to wonder what’s gone wrong in the Windy City.
A giant 3D starburst sprayed with pollution-fighting chemicals is coming to the courtyard of MoMA PS1 this summer. The spiky blue installation from New York-based firm HWKN is the winning design in the museum’s 13th-annual Young Architects Program.
