After kicking off the Venice Biennale, and with some time to kill before Art Basel in Switzerland, the art world’s charter set jetted off to Rome, London, and Greece among other places. Here’s what they were up to last week, in their own eyes. Allegedly retired artist Maurizio Cattelan headed to Slaughterhouse, the Deste Foundation Project Space on the Greek isle of Hydra for the June 4 opening of “Urs Fischer: Yes.” Cattelan stands by a sculpture of himself by this year’s Venice Biennale director Massimiliano Gioni. Fischer’s project invites anyone to the space to make their creations out of colored clay. But you have to get there to partake. Why not take a private jet?
Model and actress Milla Jovovich has added performance artist to her portfolio. As part of “Future/Perfect,” her collaboration with designer Tara Subkoff for Italian clothier Marella at the Venice Biennale, Jovovich spent some time in a glass box. For the time being, Jovovich is in the art world. Here’s a selfie, from “The Coliseum.”
The infamous photos of record producer Swizz Beatz making a spin painting with Damien Hirst, that got everyone buzzing about a potential collaboration between the two, are no longer on Instagram. However, these latex gloves are, and they have Hirst written all over them.
Tom Sachs posted a picture of boobs in Portofino, Italy and said his mom took it.
Bigger slides are better at this backyard pool, shot by real estate tycoon Aby Rosen.
Men, shirtless, making things out of clay, on Hydra.
Who needs Hydra when you could be doing pop-up wheelies like artist Dustin Yellin.
Hole creative director and socialite Fabiola Beracasa posed underwater for this selfie, which could be called “The Physical Impossibility of Life Without Art Fairs.”
Hole director Kathy Grayson caught two people in flagrante delicto as part of an art show she was at. “Art! Oh boy I need more art in my life.”
Ryan McNamara met his “idol” Robin Byrd and a sphinx all in one night.
Greek industrialist art collector Dakis Joannou’s Jeff Koons-decorated boat was moored in Hydra.
Travess Smalley, our “Emerging” artist this week, shows that you don’t have to leave town to hang with the big-named artists — though he was in London when we interviewed him. This portrait with Picasso was taken at New York’s Madame Tussauds.
Art Production Fund’s Yvonne Force Villareal caught a work that very closely resembled another by Adam Parker Smith (the artist who put on a show of artwork he stole from other artists). According to art dealer Maxwell Davidson IV, this one’s a copycat!
Here are photographers (sorry, paparazzi) taking pictures of Jovovich while in her glass box.
MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach has recently begun adding photos to his Instagram. He now has three. This one is very Fellini/Marcello Mastroianni ca. “8 1/2.”
Half Gallery director Bill Powers snaps outward bound photographer Peter Beard. Here, at Driftwood Cove.
China Chow visited Shanghai where she got a picture of herself “holding the hand of the grandfather I never had the chance to meet.”
Peres Projects posted this image with the caption “Chelsea Handler.” That’s all we know.
— Rozalia Jovanovic