Tag: 06.19.00

• London’s Serpentine Gallery, a “pocket-sized park pavilion” in Kensington Gardens, celebrates its 30^th anniversary tomorrow. Julia Peyton-Jones, the gallery’s director since 1991, is widely credited as the force behind Serpentine’s cutting-edge shows and its growing reputation as Britain’s most successful small gallery. – The Telegraph (UK)

New York fêted graffiti artists with two events this week: an auction of the work of 100 “night writers” and two gallery retrospectives. But, opinions still vary widely over whether graffiti belongs in galleries and museums at all or should be left alone on the streets. – New York Times

For more than 50 years, painter Alice Neel created provocative, painfully revealing – and often nude and famously unflattering – portraits of art-world insiders. On the eve of the Whitney Museum’s Neel retrospective, eleven of her former subjects reflect on what it was like to sit for “a genius at detecting her subjects’ inner lives and notorious for exposing – and exaggerating – her subjects’ flaws. – New York Magazine