frieze new york 2013, issue 2 - The Art Newspaper

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THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE NEW YORK DAILY EDITION 11-13 May 2013
DIARY
Drinking on the job
As the VIP visitors were taking in
the art during Thursday’s opening
of Frieze New York, reporters from
The Art Newspaper were hard at
work on their own very important
assignment: trying to find a key to
the artist Liz Glynn’s 1920s-style
speakeasy bar, one of this year’s
Frieze Projects. Given our thirst
for, um, news, this mission took
mere minutes. Key and location
procured, two of our intrepid
reporters made off for the secret
venue, which is buried in a hidden
wall within the grid of gallery
stands. In their eagerness, our
staffers forgot to use the secret
“thrice knock, show your key” signal.
We weren’t, however, the only
ones to fail to read the instructions.
Once inside, we bumped
into the Miami collector Don
Rubell and the British collector
Peter Fleissig, both clutching glass
mugs of the secret elixir served up
by one of the devilishly attractive
raconteur-bartenders, who told
tales of starving artists trapped in
circus cages, Caesar’s feet and
sword fights. “There’s only one
rule in the art world, and it’s that
Artoon by Pablo Helguera
there are no rules,” Rubell said.
Passing his drink to our everaccommodating
writers, Rubell
said: “I can’t drink alcohol and
look at art without it costing me a
lot of money—take it.”
Undercover writer
Wearing a different disguise every
day in order to infiltrate the ultrawealthy
elite is none other than
ace sleuth David de Jong, a crack
reporter for Bloomberg’s
Billionaires Index. His mission is to
identify and track down secret billionaires,
precisely those elusive
international oligarchs who stride
the aisles of Frieze dressed down to
avoid detection. By now, they have
come to spot and immediately flee
from the jobbing journo, so De
Jong has donned a series of deceptive
outfits—muffled up in scarf
and shades, even. Thus he was spotted
at the fair’s bookstall perusing
the boxed special edition of The
Situationist Times, the revolutionary
journal created by his aunt, the
avant-garde agitator Jacqueline de
Jong—a “radical” contrast indeed.
Fresh ink
The architect Peter Marino (right)
was seen browsing the aisles at
Frieze this week in his customary,
eye-catching outfit comprising
leather chaps. Countless curious
onlookers were keen to chat to the
man dubbed the “leather daddy of
luxury”, including the Belgian
artist Wim Delvoye. “I collect his
work. I can relate to Wim’s piggies,”
quipped the hirsute New
Yorker, referring to Delvoye’s
On the fair’s front line
A lot of work goes into an event like Frieze: there is the crew toiling all
hours to set up the mammoth tent, the art movers, the cleaners, the
catering staff, the guards. While they all deserve our thanks, spare a
thought for Hanna, who plays an important part in ensuring the safety
of all the visitors to the fair. The sharp-nosed canine can be seen inspecting
the tent each morning for any whiff of explosives before the fair
opens. “It’s a different world,” one dealer remarked as Hanna trundled
past on her morning round.
famous tattooed sows, available as
works of art. “I’ve got lots
of tattoos,” added
Marino, revealing
various striking
examples of body
art. But are they
confined to his
rather broad
biceps? “No, but
do you really want
me to pull my
pants down as
well?” he cheekily
enquired.
Hands off Koons
Continuing the nudist theme, Jeff
Koons’s voluptuous “Venus” sculptures
were not the only racy objets
d’art on display at Gagosian
Gallery in Manhattan this
week. A young woman, nude
apart from a pair of fetching
red flats and a garish body
covering of blue, green and
pink paint, was seen strolling
around the packed-out private
view of a show devoted to
Koons’s recent work. The very
scantily clad lady, named
Dylan Hall (right), explained
that she was part of an artist’s
project (shorthand for publicity
stunt) arranged by the New
York gallery Lambert Fine
Arts. And has Jeff himself
seen the work of art
bedecked in nothing but her
birthday suit? “We saw him
earlier today,” Hall said.
“He said he didn’t want me
to touch him.”
And best dressed
goes to…
Sharp-eyed observers at
Frieze may have noticed
that über-curator Hans Ulrich
Obrist is looking especially
dapper, leaving
art-world veterans
wondering where
this newfound
nattiness springs
from. The
answer lies with
the fashion giant
Burberry, which,
along with sponsoring
the launch
this Saturday of his
new publication Do It! at
its Spring Street store, has also
decked out the august art intellectual
in the finest threads available;
they’ve even provided Obrist
with an in-house stylist. Not so
much a case of do it but wear it.
Make love not oil
The top oil executive Phil
Epstein was strolling the
VIP aisles with his wife,
the fabled artist L.C.
Armstrong, fresh from
her sell-out triumph at
Marlborough, when he
was stopped dead in his
tracks by IMAGINE NO
FRACKING, a brand new
work by Yoko Ono created
especially for the fair.
Boldly stencilled on the
wall, this “open edition”
could not help but arrest
the veteran fuel-guru, now
the chief executive of Warren
Resources, one of the major
independent drillers of oil on
American soil with wells across
Los Angeles. Epstein confided:
“You know my wife is a
painter, so she tells me there
will be no fucking if I start
fracking… and then I always
promise her that the only thing
I really want to frack is her!”
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Viveros-Fauné
Photographer: Casey Fatchett
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