Summer Breeze

This is what I have been up to and publishing in the past few weeks:

My Basel Top 10

A big interview and feature on Bruce High Quality Foundation in the latest issue of Sleek (issue 38)

The new bright red issue of Twin (issue 8) containing a ten page interview with Cameron Jamie - a real exclusive - as well as profiles on women behind the scenes in the art world, profiles of artists including Nicholas Deshayes, Raphael Hefti, the writing of Paul Kneale, and artists project from Paul Pieroni, SPACE Studios and Rhys Coren

And I went to Copenhagen for the first time to wander around and conceive an exhibition for September, where I enjoyed Roman Liska at IMO Projects, Tal R at Bo Bjerggaard (pictured above) and Troels Carlsen at V1 gallery.

Smile Smile Smile

On way to Basel tomorrow and am packing (in a suitcase a quarter of the size of the one I brought to Venice - I'm learning). Listening to Jayson Musson's incredible CVS Bangers mix which I recommend immensely. I've know him since his Plastic Little days, put him in my last book and am very very proud in a show at Grimm Museum back in 2010 (the first time his alter ego Hennessey Youngman had a gallery outing I might add). The mix cannot help but make you smile - in a magic FM in a taxi on the way home in 4am kind of way - and inspired this little blog of smiley art.

Artists images from top to bottom - Eddie Peake, Richard Jackson, Shoplifter aka Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, Alisdair Frost

Venice 2013

Before I went to Venice, these were the ten artists I was excited about (and apparently over 10,000 people read this which is mental).

When I came back these are the works that blew my mind: Best of Venice 2013

If you want to hear me blab about it all in person, I'll be joining JJ Charlesworth and Paul Pieroni at the ICA for a lunchtime debrief at 1pm: http://www.ica.org.uk/37950/Talks/Culture-Now-Venice-Debrief.html

These are the things that did not get mentioned in the official story:

Dancing from the minute the music started until 3am on a weird island at Jeremy Deller's incredible party, complete with naked table dancing man (who later put his clothes on, came up to me and knelt in worship at my feet as I danced - as you do); sharing stolen vodka in Le Baron in the Bauer with Anri Sala and Theaster Gates's table; eating asparagus lasagna at Il Paradiso Perduto in Canneregio not once but twice; the amazing Pasticceria Rizzardini beneath our flat for daily macchiati and crostata mele at the bar each morning; hanging out at the Emdash party in a room so rococo it looks like angels vomited and it dried; bumping into half of London at sandwich shops, kebab shops and of course the brilliant Palazzo Peckham; being overwhelmed by beauty at Museo Fortuny

Wild Is The Wind

Venice on Monday for the week - lots of coverage on www.dazeddigital.com throughout the week. 

I'm just a leaf in this wind:

NYC Frieze week rundown

I came back from NYC on Monday night and am only now piecing myself together. The week was made special in particular by the following artists: Michael Genovese / Kadar Brock / Ben Sansbury (photographed with me for Art in America by Paul Laster) / Scott Treleavan / Paul P/ Chris Dorland / Kasper Sonne / David Raymond Conroy / Cecile B Evans / Lewis Teague Wright / Ian Tweedy etc.

These are my highlights:

Frieze

J Parker Valentine @ Frieze Frame section (pictured above)

Borden Capalino @ RamikenCrucible

Andrea Bowers @ Suzanne Vielmetter

NADA

Elena Damiani @ Elaine Levy Project (pictured above)

Leah Glenn @ Night Gallery

Jason Kalogiros @ Queen’s Nails

Exhibitions

Alex Hubbard @ Maccarone (pictured above)

Wolfgang Tilmans @ Andrea Rosen

Travess Smalley @ Higher Pictures

Scott Treleavan @ Invisible Exports

Books 

David Graeber 'Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology'

Michael Genovese 'Lines and Cracks and Zebras and Horses'

New York Address Book

I head to New York for my annual May dose of urban sunshine. Conveniently Frieze New York and NADA have decided to coincide. For my personal use, if nothing else, here is my NYC address book:

Coffee
9^th St Espresso in Chelsea Market and 341 E 10th St (btwn Ave A and B)
Blue Bottle 160 Berry St, Brooklyn and 450 W 15th St, Chelsea
OST, 441 East 12th Street

Food and Drink
Taim, 222 Waverly Pl (btween Perry & 11th) here every other day for felafel balls

Snack Taverna 63 Bedford St, classic greek food including garlicky scordalia

EN Brasserie 435 Hudson St - incredible Japanese food, Earl Grey tea ice cream that taste like a strong cuppa, nice little posh bar too

Westville branches in Chelsea, West and East village, for an insane number of vegetables

Hotel Delmano old school cocktails in Brooklyn

Lucky Strike 59 Grant St, btwn Wooster and W Broadway, the most relaxed of Keith McNally's places  

Victory Garden super tasty goat milk frozen yoghurt

Galleries
Andrea Rosen 525 w 24th St

Gavin Brown 620 Greenwich St

New Museum 235 Bowery (good bookshop too)

319 Scholes in Bushwick

Ramiken Crucible 389 Grand St

Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave at 75th St

The Hole NYC 312 Bowery

UNT/TLED  30 Orchard St

Clothes
Steven Alan especially the big branch 140 10th Ave
Creatures of Comfort, 205 Mulberry St
Opening Ceremony often hilariously expensive but you can always grab coffee from Smile To Go across the road

Books
Mcnally and Jackson, 52 Prince St (btwn Lafayette & Mulberry)
Printed Matter, 10th Ave at 21st St
192 Books, 192 10th Ave at 21st St
Dashwood, 33 Bond St