Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain 2013

For its 40th edition, the international art fair shows a young and daring spirit, with plenty of surprises

The 2013 Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) party starts right at the entrance. Immediately, visitors are faced with the impressive and imposing, nearly seven meters tall “Iron tree,” by controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Pursuing his personal approach which references his country’s cultural heritage, the artist has cast in iron a previously made work of fallen trunks from mountainous south China, which have been interlocked …

London’s Frieze Art Fair with Clay Ketter

A tour of the show, complete with insights from one of our favorite artists

This year Cool Hunting was fortunate enough to have the artist Clay Ketter as our companion at London’s Frieze Art Fair. Ketter is well known for his post-minimalist work that questions our relationship with everyday domestic objects through construction and fabrication techniques, and we have been fans of his for some time. His photo series “Gulf Coast Slabs“—which documented the destruction of homes after Hurricane …

Gertrude Salons

Intimate art experiences hit the web with the aid of an online platform

Kenneth Schlenker—a French-born tech entrepreneur and ex-Google employee—isn’t the most predictable person to disrupt New York’s stolid art scene. Several startups have tried to bring the art world online, mostly by creating marketplaces for buyers and sellers. But art is personal and highly social—e-commerce, on the other hand, not so much. “Art is more of an experience than a product purchase,” says Schlenker, echoing the …