, May 6, 2021
This was also the first art fair in New York since the pandemic hit 14 months ago. Held at the Shed in Hudson Yards, it reflected the changing times: timed tickets, temperature checks, health screenings. Those who didn’t comply were turned away. Early VIPs included museum directors Thelma Golden and Richard Armstrong, Christie’s C.E.O. Guillaume Cerutti and Miami-based collector Mera Rubell.
Winkelmann’s first impression of the fair was a mix of puzzlement and excitement.
“The art fairs I’ve been to are usually in a parking lot, with people selling things for $20 or $30. Things like nature pictures. Where I live, no one cares about art.”
A Hong Kong interior designer transformed a couple’s rented apartment into a colourful, art-filled home Scott and Katie Evans’ flat on The Peak, designed by Ana Foster-Adams. Photography: Denice Hough
Having lived in their 2,330 sq ft apartment on The Peak for a few months, Scott and Katie Evans felt it lacked a bit of oomph and turned to interior designer and stylist Ana Foster-Adams for help. Our friends thought we were completely insane for investing in a designer for a rental property but we wanted to make it feel more like a proper home, says Katie, who has been in Hong Kong for more than a decade and works in finance.
Cheyney Thompson opens an exhibition of works at Ordet, Milan
Cheyney Thompson, To be titled, 2020.
MILAN
.- Cheyney Thompsons new series of Displacement paintings posits each canvass ground as a touch-sensitive surface. The works adopt a uniform structure of five-millimeter square black marks painted in a gridded pattern atop a white ground. Before the paint is dry, Thompson deploys an assortment of custom silicone tools against the surface, forcing the wet squares out of place. He adds no new material, but rather subjects the existing marks to this process of reorganization. The resulting transformations appear as extensions of squares into lines, glyph-like forms, and sweeping, sinuous fields of paint. Each painting has become a record of the tools interaction with the surface: the stops and starts, the kinetic limits of Thompsons body and the entropic movement of the order of painted squares into noise. But, they are also pictures, as this play of ruptures and conjure