— We're giving away an iPad to anyone who can write something interesting about an art fair, which is much harder than it sounds.
— The Metropolitan Museum held its annual gala, with this year's extravaganza being punk-themed to match the new Costume Institute exhibition, prompting actual punks to sound off on the show, while ARTINFO's in-house fashion punk Lee Carter reflected on the edgy theme, and Chloe Wyma likened the glamorized aesthetic to the retro stylings in the new "Great Gatsby" movie.
— Frieze New York returned for its sophomore edition, with dozens of galleries dropping out and others joining up, and Daniel Kunitz picking out the mega-fair's foremost works.
— Judd Tully spied rapper LL Cool Jat Sotheby's $230 million Impressionist and modern sale Tuesday night, and then reported from the following night's notably less large sale at Christie's.
— Barbara Kruger responded to fashion label Supreme's ongoing use of her distinctive text style.
— Céline Piettre attended "Boléro," a new ballet co-created by Marina Abramovic that premiered at the Paris National Opera, and lived to tell about it.
— Ben Davis parsed the Guggenheim's dazzling yet perplexing survey of the mid-century Japanese art movement Gutai.
— Sara Roffino spoke to David Horovitz, an emerging, unusual, often non-material-based artist whose most recent project was an itinerant land art work using seeds from the trees in Zuccotti Park.
— Curator Carson Chan discussed his forthcoming Biennial of the Americas, a beer-themed exhibition that opens in Denver on July 16.
— J. Hoberman recalled the life and work of Taylor Mead, a beat poet and Andy Warhol film star who died this past Wednesday at age 88.
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