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As the Art World Turns … #NotReally
There's so much strange news this week in the art world, so we decided to give you a link list of the news bites #WithCommentary …
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The Museums We Googled Most This Year
For its annual Zeitgeist Report, Google has listed everything that the entire world has Google-searched for most often this year. Art isn't much in evidence, but we do have a list of the top 10 museums of 2012.
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Buy Beast Jesus Artist's Original Painting on eBay
Are you ready for the collecting opportunity of the century? Cecilia Gimenez, the (in)famous artist behind the restoration of Elias Garcia Martinez's "Ecce Homo" in a church in northeastern Spain, is selling her original work on eBay.
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Get Ready for the Flood of 3D Printed Objects
I have a prediction. In the next few years, the art world will be awash in 3D printed objects. I noticed a number this year at the Miami art fairs but they were certainly limited in quantity.
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Overheard in the Art World: Miami Edition
This week, when promiscuous street artists, pretentious collectors, wannabe art loving celebs, and drunk tweeting curators jumped on planes across the globe to fly to the annual Miami Basel week, we had a bit of an #OHAW orgasm.
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Required Reading
This week, the economics of art fairs, GIF history, Maurice Sendak, Louvre is decentralizing, a seminal Richard Serra work in danger, Chinese food, and more.
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Weekend Words: Drinking
At Weekend Words, it’s never too early, or too late, to start celebrating the holidays.
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When Art as a Subversive Act Is too Subversive
LONDON — Cultural relativism is a problematic thing. If you don't agree, ask Caveh Zahedi, whose new film, The Sheikh and I, is set to premiere at Brooklyn’s Factory 25 on December 7 after having been banned on the grounds of blasphemy by the biennial that commissioned it.
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Goodwill Hunting
CHICAGO — Have you ever wandered into a Goodwill store, browsed through the clothing (only slightly soiled), moved onto the box with the framed velvet pictures of Elvis, and picked out a print that cost you twelve dollars but turned out to be worth nine thousand? Me neither. But this is exactly what
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When Painting Labels Do Their Job
While touring Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum last week, I encountered a fantastic label for a painting by Nola Hatterman that did what a good art work label should do, mainly providing the context that augments the experience of looking, while connecting the work to our own time and place.
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Required Reading
This week, criticizing Ai Weiwei, the FBI is tracking your Google searches, history of Pong, Hirst is a joke, the Paris art "underground," and more.
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Weekend Words: Bigness
With the announcement this week that Christo plans to build the world's largest sculpture, “The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi," at 492 feet high with a base measuring 984 by 738 feet, Weekend Words turns to bigness.