SoHo gallery Deitch Projects closing

this is actually massive news.

bums me out. i've gone to a lot of great shows at the deitch. this will be a hard spot to fill. deitch was always very progressive and lively place to go. it was refreshing to see artists represented there that blurred the lines between design/art, etc. it will sorely be missed.

This is terrible.

going to deitch opening parties was one of the last institutions that reminded me of life in nyc before you people showed up.

"going to deitch opening parties was one of the last institutions that reminded me of life in nyc before you people showed up."

Amen brother.

yes, fun opening parties. and michel gondry's 3 hour line exhibit!

it's mixed bag. Deitch Projects was a good occasional venue for genre blurring art and music, but Jeffrey Deitch himself was also largely responsible for art becoming a financial instrument, speculated, traded, and borrowed against like stocks, bonds, and real estate.

People collected art before Deitch, and sometimes sold their collections when the value increased, but nothing on the scale of commodification and speculation that Jeffrey Deitch introduced over the last 20 years.

That he's taking this museum job indicates that he's bankrupted himself. That's not a bad thing, he should suffer along with the hedge fund managers and bankers that got us into this recession. He is as culpable as any of them, and arguably worse: worse because his wheeling and dealing had a terrible macro influence on the business of visual art... despite whatever actually good taste contributions to the micro level conversation of modern art collecting Deitch made over the years.

i will miss the crack house exhibit.

visual art has consistently sucked since the late 1800's

your mom

Oh, and what about those question marks on Sunday's text in the concert poster below? No, that isn't saving a spot for a Smiths reunion or U2 debut on the Coachella stage, it's the way that Yorke presents himself as a solo star, the marquee at his Orpheum concert had the same punctuational flourish.

will miss the crack house exhibit