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By now the votes are in, and the winner of LA's inaugural Mohn Award has been announced: Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi will receive $100,000 over the next two years, and a monograph will be published about his work. The Mohn Award, which is being funded by LA philanthropists and collectors Ja
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This week, Žižek on Pussy Riot, the fate of an early Richard Serra is being discussed, crimes of photography, an Indiana Museum finds a Picasso in storage, National Georgraphic's 2012 Travelers Photo Contest winners, New York's art book shops and more.
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This week, the art world is at a crawl but that's not to say there wasn't chatter about STDs, sandcastles in Rockaway and a new art world (wanna-be) sensation, Gallery Girls.
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The Twitterverse is full of opinions and here is just some of the most notable 140 characters or less commentary that appeared on our screens.
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You know the tired old cliche about LA sprawl? It appears to be true about the city's art world.
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Yes, it's essentially Mean Girls in a gallery.
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You might say we're a society of oversharers. Memoirs are our bestsellers these days, and ordinary people pour their hearts out in front of cameras on reality TV shows. Someone has had the bright idea to turn our penchant for confession into public art.
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Gawker has discovered Beyoncé's tumblelog and writer Caity Weaver thinks it's art … or something.
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This week, decommissioning public art, Paula Cooper and Larry Gagosian speak, the mosaic man of the East Village, the Vancouver Art Gallery has a radical idea, Warhol's grave and more …
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Have you ever read a press release — or even, say, the first line of a press release — for an art exhibition and promptly felt like you had no idea what just happened? Like a wave of vague descriptors and questionable nouns had washed over you, all if which were supposed to combine to create some so
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Although the art world — especially the contemporary one, where nearly everything has retail value — likes to preserve and maintain artworks as much as it can, it's inevitable that some pieces get lost along the way.
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Yesterday's voter booth success definitely helps to ensure a more financially secure Detroit Institue of Arts, but you can be assured that its passage wasn't because of some innate sense of arts patronage among Michiganders but a victory based on educating voters about the facts.