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Bloggers Stage Photo Protest Against 303 Gallery at Whitney Biennial

  • by The Editors on February 24, 2010

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by The Editors on February 24, 2010

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A group of unidentified New York art bloggers were spotted at the 2010 Whitney Biennial press preview staging an absurd protest of a painting that was lent to the show by New York’s 303 Gallery. The work, Maureen Gallace, “August” (2009), was the unfortunate recipient of the bloggers’ wrath but the protesters told me that their action was not directed towards Gallace but her gallery, 303, which continues to maintain a strict anti-photography policy that is despised by many of the city’s art bloggers.

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China Bulldozes Studios, Flash Mobs Follow, Avatar Invoked

  • by Hrag Vartanian on February 4, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on February 4, 2010

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While we live our artistic lives in the West in relative calm, if sometimes obscurity and poverty, artists in China face some very serious dangers from an autocratic government that only allows art to flower when it fits its political agenda. So when artists in China create a flash mob to protest the systematic destruction of artist studios, it is shocking that no one notices. Thankfully, Austrian blogger Karel has written something for mazine.ws about this vast injustice …

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