October 2009
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September 2009
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More money, more problems... →
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
August 2009
2 posts
Why there will be no more avant-garde art. →
Homeless Men in Poland Dream of an Odyssey at Sea →
Two dozen homeless men in Warsaw are building a ship to sail themselves around the world, and that to me is an amazing dream to have, an experience to kindle a soul’s warmth. This is a type of journey that money cannot buy.
July 2009
7 posts
Race against the tide: Artist creates intricate... →
Does the ephemerality of the work make it more powerful? via gltss
Art Gallery 101 →
Aby Rosen under pressure... →
It’s amazing how some people see the silver lining…
DICK IN HAND by Kenny Schachter →
What is it that dealers do? Kenny Schachter tells you.
Bruce Mau Design - Manifesto →
Remember when creative was king? It still is.
June 2009
7 posts
Utopics, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition,...
Utopics, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne http://u-topics.org
Professional days & Events : August 28 - 29 - 30 , 2009 Exhibitition : August 30 - October 25, 2009
This quinquennial is a must in the field of contemporary art in public space. 50 interventions by swiss and international artists, utopians, micronations, communities and originals will infiltrate the...
Art Basel 2009: Recession appeal | The Economist →
Podcast - The Aesthetic Responsibility by Boris... →
Wicked smart.
New Sincerity →
what ever happened to this? and why am i only learning about it now?
Duchamp's Financial Documents: Exchange as a... →
May 2009
4 posts
A recalibrated market © Tobias Meyer
At Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction, Even the Star Is Dimmed - NYTimes.com
Sarah Thornton’s take at Art Forum Diary
Greg.org
Interesting if you care, it’s just interesting because I’ve been following the story of the rise and fall and how it all gets played…
Will the Auction Houses Get Hammered? by Arne...
…”Some of the rock-star artists who experienced meteoric rises, helped by manipulations on the auction block, are now in freefall. The current lack of demand for their art has left their factories wanting. Although some of these artists are significant, the collapse of hyped and manipulated markets may take a generation to disassociate the art from the feeding frenzy of the 2000s for...
Philippe Terrier-Hermann →
April 2009
3 posts
“In literature, the fetishism of irony, paradox, and complexity helped to depoliticize, that is, to conceal capitalist contradictions by invoking the “open-minded” distantiation of bourgeois modernism.” - Franco Moretti, The Spell of Indecision
“The artists I admire the most are those who were bold in their choices - let...”
– Truancy: A Portrait of Artur Zmijewski
moral hazard: the art of artur zmijewski -... →
Great Quote:
“Moral Hazard: The Art of Artur Zmijewski.” Curator Norman L. Kleeblatt considers the artist’s engagements with ethical dilemma in his work—showing the hearing-impaired sing Bach, for instance, or asking Jews who left Poland for Israel after World War II to recall the country of their youth—while curator, scholar, and sociologist Sebastian Cichocki talks with...
March 2009
16 posts
Art Dealer Charged With Stealing $88 Million →
Greed Greed Greed Greed Greed Greed Greed!
badpaintingsofbarackobama.com →
thank you Graeme Mathieson for this one!
UBS, sponsor of the Art Basel + Art Basel Miami... →
“… A grand jury indictment a month ago said UBS “solicited new business from existing and prospective United States clients at Art Basel Miami Beach,” ABC News said.”
Right About Now: Jennifer Allen, Sophie Berrebi,... →
great reads, if you haven’t yet read them… xo
Marc Spiegler →
Good reads about the art market etc. from a keen and observant writer and art world insider. Marc Spiegler is also co-director of Art Basel. xxx
A: he hasn’t written since he got that job..
Essays On The Blurring Of Art And Life by Allan... →
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, The Curious... →
Go With The Guts →
Clinton, Bush and Washington...
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and George Washington are on a sinking ship. As the boat sinks, George Washington heroically shouts, “Save the women!” George W. Bush hysterically hollers, “Screw the women!” Bill Clinton’s asks excitedly, “Do we have time?
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They Teach Us to Die
Somewhere along the way we’ve all been sold the idea that what we need is a new car, a new hot shirt, the fashionable sunglasses, the new skin cream, a new stereo, a new cell phone, a better computer etc. to feel the wind in our hair, to feel like a million ducks, to see red for the amazing color it is, to feel the sun on our skin, to hear the magic of music, to have friends of our dream, to...
Gift economy - a Wikipedia intro →
Barter - a Wikipedian definition →
Americans Resurrect Art of Bartering →
February 2009
2 posts
Andrea Fraser, May I Help You? (1991) →
The New York art gallery is installed with an exhibition of approximately 100 of Allan McCollum’s Plaster Surrogates. The objects, which have black centers, white mats, and frames in shades of red, are hung in a single continuous row that wraps around three of the gallery’s walls. Seated behind a desk along the south wall of the exhibition space are three performers who constitute...
Orchard →
Orchard was a cooperatively organized exhibition and event space in New York’s Lower East Side. The gallery was run by twelve partners of a for-profit limited liability corporation founded for the project. The partners include artists, filmmakers, critics, art historians, and curators, with several combining these activities in their practices.
December 2008
7 posts
Homeless shelter is dubbed the swankiest in the... →
Krink →
The short story of Krink; grafitti, public art, rebellion, counter culture, its commodification and why.
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gltss - the meat loaf issue →
Millo, Shaun and i - we were having roti at ghandi roti in toronto one sunny afternoon after graduating - decided to start a collaborative art thing in 2000. i love collaboration, more on that later. but for now…
the meat loaf issue was the only non-flash, html scrolling issue we did. it’s just an album, not much more, really; but the album is rich with content, ideas, directions,...
Shirley Horn - To Life
Walter Venafro played this...
Public Relations →
or contemporary strategies in the production, distribution and dispersal of meaning in contemporary art. Polly Staple on Pawel Althammer, Seth Price and Paul Chan
