A blockbuster restaging of an “art amusement park” from 1987 aims to recover a lost element in art — fun. But in our age of hype and commerce, was it doomed to fall short?
Luna Luna, an art carnival that appeared in Hamburg in 1987, then vanished, has been resurrected in Los Angeles. You can wander there, but the rides are verboten.
Blum was the dealer who introduced the West Coast to Pop Art and Lichtenstein’s works in the 1960s. Now he’s showing his friend’s rarely seen sculptures.
A Francis Bacon goes big, but there were few fireworks at the sale of paintings from Condé Nast’s former chairman, who built one of the major art collections in the country.