–Art dealer James Fuentes, born and raised on the Lower East Side, is celebrating 10 years as a local gallery owner with an unusual group show. [New York Times]
–Galerie Perrotin’s new 25,000 square foot space at 130 Orchard St. will debut in May with a show by the young Colombian artist Iván Argote. [Art News]
–Developer Gregg Singer is pleading with the city to lift a stop work order at the former P.S. 64/CHARAS building. He’s been trying for several years to convert the property into a dormitory. [Crain’s via The Real Deal]
–Justin Davidson says the new Astor Place is a, “distinguished, if self-effacing, public design” that is “a blackboard full of possibilities… (and that it is now) up to those who inhabit it to chalk the next chapter onto its waiting surface.” [New York Magazine]
