A work similar to The Air up There titled Spinner Forest was on view at MCA Chicago's "Nick Cave: Forothermore." PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY, © MCA CHICAGO.

Nick Cave’s $1 M. Airport Art Grounded Over Safety Concerns After Part Falls to the Floor

A kinetic sculpture by Nick Cave formerly installed at the Kansas City International Airport’s new terminal may be permanently grounded after its spinner broke off and fell to the floor in October. A subsequent engineering report found that thought the $1 million artwork did not injure anyone during the incident, the spinners’ connectors cannot support the work’s weight and movement over time, posing a risk of future failures. City officials later removed the sculpture, which features 2,800 spinners suspended from the check-in hall ceiling, the Kansas City Star, reports.

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Installation view of Portrait Society Gallery's booth at Untitled Art Fair (2024) (all images Debra Brehmer/Hyperallergic)

My Small Gallery Lost Money at an Art Fair. It Hurt.

On the plane back from Miami, I add up expenses versus income from this year’s Untitled Art Fair. It is our third year here, and our first bust. As a small Midwestern gallery, two major art fairs a year — Untitled in Miami and the Outsider Art Fair in New York — can generate a quarter of our annual income. Even more importantly, they help us develop a national collector base for regional artists. There is no other way to survive. 

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Frida Kahlo in 1939

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As Frida Kahlo works enter the public domain, look out for the fridge magnets

Each year on 1 January thousands of US copyrights expire, allowing creative works to be shared in the the public domain (copyrights on works—published books, films, songs and art—typically last for 95 years). There are differing copyright laws globally but in the US, UK, and some European countries, works of single authorship generally retain copyright protections for the life of the author plus 70 years. So authors and creators who died in 1954 are now due to seep into the public consciousness like never before.

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