Gabrielle Goliath, Richard Avedon, “Chicken Linda”
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara reflects on skipping New York art fairs and auctions, including a record-breaking $181 million Jackson Pollock sale at Christie’s, and questions whether such prices should matter. He highlights a profile of pioneering performance artist Linda Mary Montano, now 84, who welcomed writer Taliesin Thomas into her Upstate New York home-shrine in a devotional chicken costume. Bishara also notes that Gabrielle Goliath’s exhibition “Elegy,” a video installation, is on view at a church in Venice after South Africa’s culture minister barred it from the country’s pavilion for political reasons. He adds that Hyperallergic won a New York Press Club journalism award for Noah Fischer’s comic “A Prospect Heights Ghost Story,” supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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