Amy Yao

With an offbeat idea and $100, artist Morgan Mandalay started one of California's most unique project spaces. Here he speaks with Artspace about the project, and his concerns about the art world's agenda to engage " the community."

From soft sculpture to clothing-as-art, fabrics of all types abound at this year's fair.

Artspace's Andrew M. Goldstein spoke to the co-founder of the seminal gallery about the triumph and tragedy of one of America's most fertile contemporary art breeding grounds.