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Required Reading
This week, it's a mixed bag of artist interviews, design and social media infographics.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Another Senseless Artist/Cyclist Death in North Brooklyn
On Wednesday morning, 30-year-old artist and rising star Mathieu Lefevre was killed in a hit-and-run on Morgan Avenue in Williamsburg. His death is the fourth cycling fatality in Williamsburg in the past four months.
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The Myth of Government Funding for New York Museums
Will Brand at Art Fag City has responded to the idea that Occupy Museums is misguided. He says they should target government-funded institutions, but wait, how much government funding do the targeted institutions actually get? I'm afraid not much.
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Getting to Know the Locked Out Art Handlers of Sotheby's
Channel Thirteen's Metrofocus blog spoke to the art handlers who have been locked out since August 1 from Sotheby's. Their stories are endearing and give you some insight into who these working men are.
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How Will We Know If Our Warhols Are Real?!
The Warhol Foundation is dissolving it's Warhol Authentification Board, Inc. According to Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs, the: " … decision was driven by the financial toll the board's operations have taken on the institution has a whole."
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Big-Name Artists Sue Sotheby's & Christie's for Cali Royalities
According to the LA Times, Chuck Close, Laddie John Dill and the estate of sculptor Robert Graham are suing the world's largest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, for royalties they say they are entitled to under the California Resale Royalty Act.
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Go to College, Get a Masterpiece!
I was speaking the other day to my colleague — and increasingly friend — Rebecca Uchill, who is headquartered at MIT, and she told me that one of the perks of being at MIT is that you can take real art home (or to the dorms, anyway) as part of some glorious art lottery known as the Student Loan Art
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Is Occupying Museums Misguided?
This Occupy Museum effort is the most peculiar Occupy Wall Street/art-related thing I've heard about yet. A protest is slated for tomorrow and intends to "occupy" the Frick Museum, MoMA and the New Museum.
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Fight Returns to New York as Locked Out Art Handlers Continue Protest Against Sotheby's
Last week, Sotheby's art handlers took their fight to London but today they're back in New York and manning the picket lines on York Avenue.
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Largest Urban Art Festival in the Southern Hemisphere Open Nov 4
Other than having a name that sounds like it could be a gay bar in a seedy part of town, Sydney's Cockatoo Island is going to be hosting the largest urban art festival in the southern hemisphere starting November 4 and continuing until to December 11.
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Occupy Vancouver Goes for the Art Cred
New Yorkers are camping out in the financial district, Los Angelenos are pitching tents near City Hall and Bostonians are in the weird zone between Beacon Hill and government buildings called Dewey Square, but leave it to the West Coast Canucks to show the rest of the world how to do it.
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Yet Another Van Gogh Theory: Suicide or Murder
Maybe people are watching too much Law & Order, but the obsession with Vincent van Gogh and his ear, relationship with Paul Gauguin and tortured life are getting a little too much. Now, the latest theory … he was shot by teenage boys from Paris pretending to be American cowboys.