ArtPrize, MoMA's New Curators, Peter Marino, Gandhi, and more

ONLINE NOW  Grand Old Party: At Michigan's ArtPrize, the Country's Biggest Art Award More than 1,500 artists, professional and amateur, vie for $560,000 in prizes, awarded by jurors and the public  ALSO ONLINE  October 2014 Exhibition Reviews The New York, National, and International reviews from our print issue Read More At the Menil, an Exhibition Inspired by Gandhi The show maps depictions of nonviolence in art over 14 centuries Read More ICA Miami Announces Inaugural Shows This morning the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami announced its first ever shows, which will open on December 3, just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach. The ICA, whose board is comprised of the former members of the Museum … Read More Peter Marino Previews His Bass Museum Show The board room at Peter Marino's office, with its meticulous pale wood and long-necked microphone at each desk, resembles slightly the board room of SPECTRE, not in small part because its owner never dresses in anything but a skull-heavy leather … Read More MoMA's New Curatorial Guard A new generation of curators at New York's Museum of Modern Art aims to present a more nuanced and inclusive view of modern-art history Read More TRENDING NEW YORK — "If Jeff Koons didn't exist we would have to invent him," Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum, said Tuesday night at the SVA Theater. A few hundred people had gathered there to watch a conversation between Weinberg and Koons, whose retrospective is closing out the Whitney's Madison Avenue location before the institution moves downtown. Beginning the talk with a childhood photo, Koons told Weinberg that by age 4 he had "already felt like an artist." He said it wasn't until he went away to art school that he understood how art could connect him to other disciplines—philosophy, physics—although he admitted that he had already "got a taste of it from Led Zeppelin" in high school. "I like the feelings. I mean, I really like the feelings," said Koons. Sometimes those feelings can be a little overwhelming: he described how he "had to go to a bar" and get drunk after making Inflatable bunny and flower. The experience was just that heavy. ... Read more on ARTnews.com    AROUND THE ART WORLD    Laura Raicovich to Be New President of Queens Museum — nytimes.com Oversized $30 Million Koons Monkey Heads to Christie's — bloomberg.com High Line Draws Millions, but de Blasio Isn't One — nytimes.com Contemporary Art Daily Partners With NADA The popular art world blog Contemporary Art Daily has partnered with the New Art Dealers Alliance to preview its fair in Miami, which runs in early December along with Art Basel Miami Beach. The collaboration will show works that will … Read More Omar Kholeif Will Curate Armory Focus 2015 The Armory Show announced today that Omar Kholeif, curator at London's Whitechapel Gallery, will organize the sixth edition of Armory Focus–a section of the fair focusing on a specific region of the world. 2015 will showcase art from the Middle … Read More