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Is the Art World Disengaged "With the Real World"?
According to BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15436961], the former Turner prize-winner Grayson Perry has called the art establishment disengaged "with the real world."
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Occupying Art Things Has Officially Jumped the Shark
Leave it to the art world to make everything about them, a tendency that has become crystal clear over the past few weeks since the Occupy Wall Street movement began last month. First the race of anonymous Twitter handles, then it was museums, now it's (of all places) Artist's Space with the compuls
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Required Reading
This week, it's a mixed bag of artist interviews, design and social media infographics.
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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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Nan Goldin Sells Her Soul for Jimmy Choo
The photographer who documented real 1980s New York grit, Nan Goldin, now points her lens towards…peacocks, horses and shoes? In a new ad campaign for luxury shoe line Jimmy Choo, Goldin lends her signature to some awfully confusing images.
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Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Touches Wooden Balls, Simon de Pury Talks Bowel Movements
Bravo’s massively entertaining (at least to us) Work of Art is back! Or at least it came back last week. Apologies for the lack of a recap; we were too distracted by Sexy Ugo to write anything down. But since he was eliminated, it’s no longer an issue! We can focus on the art! And Jerry Saltz fondli
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Your Weekly Art Rx
Here at Hyperallergic we are allergic to a lot — dust, nuts, cats, insipid art criticism, bad art shows, people who suck. Enter our weekly remedy: a list of exhibitions and events that will serve as your weekly dose of art medicine. Here is this week's prescription …
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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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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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Required Reading
This week is a grab bag of reviews, video clips, profiles and historic finds.