Mark Flood Founds an Art Fair

Ever the prankish knave of the art market, Houston artist Mark Flood will put on his art-star jester suit next week and stage a five day art fair in Chelsea, the navel of the art world, in what he has dubbed the Insider Art Fair. His fair will, ironically of course, come on the heels of the Outsider Art Fair–perhaps one of the most ironic and vampiric notions the art world ever had–in the same space. If any fact can be gleaned from Flood’s interview yesterday with Art in America, the fair will be a tongue-in-cheek. . . no, that’s too anodyne. . . start over: The fair will be a Duchampain-Broodthaers-Warholian lambast of the art fair model, leveled at all the “Whore Museums. Gutless Collectors. Blind Dealers. Alleged Artists.” Sort of.