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Art Burn Report
If looking at art is fun, watching it burn is great. There's something cathartic about attending an event dedicated to the destruction of art in the middle of the world's largest art fair bacchanalia.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Attack of the Miami Art Fairs: Art Basel Miami 2009
In the belly of the art market beast, Hrag is wandering Miami in search of the ultimate art fair experience. First up is the landmark Art Basel fair in South Beach.
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Look & Destroy: Art Burn Miami
While the players in the global art market descend on Miami to scoop up artistic baubles and all the prestige associated with it, some people have arrived at this international art orgy for less consumer driven motives. Enter Celso and his Art Burn event.
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We're Off to Miami!
Why haven't we been posting much recently? Well, the short answer is MIAMI! Yes, we're off to the fairs and we're bringing you along with us. Expect many musings from the front lines of the art world's greatest clusterfuck.
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China Establishes Contemporary Art Academy, Tyler Revitalizes N. Philly, Brooklyn Girl Faces Fine for Chalk Drawings
... an art exhibit for the blind ... do the recent art auctions point to a possible surprise at the Miami art fairs ... North Carolina Museum of Art is gearing up for its new building ... Toronto is hosting a King Tut blockbuster ... the Taubman Museum of Art realizes that a splashy new building doe
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Looking for Genghis Khan's Tomb, SFMOMA Preps for Fisher Collection, 73-Year-Old Arrested for Tagging in LA
... a lull in Iraqi violence helps spur cultural activity ... homeless artists in Austin, Texas, have an art show & benefit ... art mogul Eli Broad is scouting for a museum location ... artist Sam Bassett is arrested for trying to make New York's Sotheby's building into art.
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Why You Probably Shouldn't Stash Your Picasso in Your London Flat
While Main Street continues to hemorrhage jobs and Wall Street revives its ridiculous bonus system, the elite among us -- most notably the trustees of the New Museum -- will probably be very interested to know where they should stash their valuables during these sad times in case, well, in case ...
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Dia Returns to Chelsea, Venice Architecture Biennale Gets 1st Female Head, NYU Launches Taste Project
... Kiev awaits its own art destination-worthy art center ... Banksy gets marked up before people have a chance to vote about keeping it or not ... the Getty Trust & the Egyptian gov't is working together to preserve King Tut ... a San Francisco muralist gets stabbed on the job ... the Obama's send
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The 18th C. Food Pornographer at LACMA
Two weeks ago, I found myself in Los Angeles with an afternoon to kill. I ventured to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and stumbled across a small exhibition by 18th C. Spanish still life painter Luis Meléndez. The exhibition, titled "Master of the Spanish Still Life," was a quaint two-room show
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US Federal Arts Funding Highest in 16 Yrs, Persian Gulf Culture Boom, NY State of the Arts...
...Jean Nouvel's new MoMA tower gets chopped and approved...Bushwick politico meets with local arts community...San Francisco galleries are branching out...and starting this week everyone will be looking to the art auctions of New York as a barometer of the art world's economic health.
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Public Space Can Be Used Against You: NY Street Ad Takeover #2
On Sunday, many New Yorkers were probably trying to figure out who whitewashed and pimped out some of the city's boring billboards. If you liked what you saw then let me introduce you to the man behind the renegade campaign, known as New York Street Advertising Takeover (NYSAT), his name is Jordan S