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Required Reading
This week, architectural drama, Voina arrests, Gerhard Richter at the Tate Modern, image search tools that will change your life, plagiarism and cartoonists and a chromatic typewriter.
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Ice Cube Gives Props to the Eames
Yet another Pacific Standard Time celebrity video, but this one features the unlikely pairing of rapper Ice Cube (aka O’Shea Jackson) with the architecture of Charles and Ray Eames.
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Weekly Art Rx
After a whirlwind of parties, events and an overwhelming amount of art at Art Basel Miami, we have just what you need to settle back into the New York swing of things. This week's Art Rx is a mixed bag of shows and events around the city that include some of the last performances of the Merce Cunnin
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The Latest in Italian Renaissance Art News and Gossip
What would the Renaissance be without its mysteries and tantalizing gossip? In the spirit of Georgio Vasari's original Renaissance tabloid, The Lives of the Artist, we've compiled a list of the latest controversies, headlines and other voci (rumors), as the Italians say, in Renaissance art.
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EXCLUSIVE: Video of a Secret Meeting of Jerry Saltz & Charles Saatchi in a Sauna
Our crackpot team of researchers has uncovered this video of a secret meeting between Jerry "I hate relational aesthetics today [http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2011/museums-as-playgrounds/]" Saltz and Charles "people are vulgar now that I'm not king [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011
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Martin Boyce Snags Turner Prize … if you care
I have trouble getting excited by the Turner Prize anymore. British art isn't as central to the art dialogue as it once was a decade ago so it is feeling more and more like a regional contest. Congrats to Martin Boyce anyway. You can read more on BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-160
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Cardboard Los Angeles
MANILA, Philippines — One of the lovely things about living abroad is seeing the American art world through the internet. When in the US, I'm tugged in so many directions from brick-and-mortar spaces, but there are a ton of American gems online, and not all of them are in New York and Los Angeles. L
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Required Reading
This week, Charles Saatchi drops a bomb, can art portray the economic crisis, public art in New York, Knoedler closes, a giant forgery scandal and sales from the 2011 Miami art fairs.
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Girlfriend of NY Mayor Tells Sotheby's Art Handlers to Eat Cake
DNAinfo points to a YouTube video that shows the locked out Sotheby's art handlers and members of Occupy Wall Street confronting Diana Taylor, the partner of New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and a member of the Sotheby’s board, at the December 1st meeting of Hudson River Park Trust. It's not good for T
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Art Rx: From New York to Miami
Hyperallergic is in Miami this week soaking up the sun and the art fairs, but we've still got the remedy for those sick with the art bug back in New York. This week's Art Rx takes you outside Manhattan to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island City and even Beacon, New York. You'll be itching to jump on m
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Debate About Performance Artist Pay and Rights Gains Steam
The debate surrounding performance art and the rights of artists has started to grow past the original controversy initiated by Marina Abramović’s gala performance for LA MOCA earlier this month. Now, three reperformers who took part in MoMA's Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present retrospective la
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What One Artist Gives to Charity Art Auctions
Our Saturday post, "Who Do Benefit Auctions Really Benefit?," has been generating a lot of discussion on the topic of charity art auctions, emerging artists and the treatment of artists. Last night, artist Steve Lambert shared this comment via Google+ about his response to benefits when he's asked t