ARCO Madrid Art Fair and Related Art Market Activities in February 2015

ARCO Madrid, the art fair in Madrid, Spain, is noted for its resurgence, running through 1 March 2015. The author plans to attend, staying at the Hotel Wellington, opened in 1952, and wearing vintage Pertegaz in tribute to the designer who died in 2014. At the fair, Veronika Jakatics-Szabó's paintings, priced €1000-€2000, will be viewed at Ani Molnár Gallery. Concurrently, a Paddle 8 auction benefits the Bronx Museum, featuring a Stanley Whitney gouache on paper estimated at $8,500; Whitney, an African-American painter represented by Team, missed earlier art movements and took a hiatus in Egypt. Back in London, Hans Haacke's Fourth Plinth Commission, a bronze horse skeleton with an LED screen displaying live London Stock Exchange data, is set for unveiling. A small work by Haacke, C/Arte Expresionista, 24, is available for €1,800 in an edition of 8 from Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Benjamin Buchloh's essay collection, Formalism and Historicity, is released by October Books this month, including essays on Marcel Broodthaers. Richard Saltoun, a London dealer, holds edition 22 of 100 of Broodthaers' Gedicht/Poem/Poeme/Change/Exchange/Wechsel (1973) in North Fitzrovia. ArtReview is present at stand 9R12. The author references Yanis Varoufakis' article 'How I Became an Erratic Marxist' and uses an Asus Padfone X for bidding.