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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
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Required Reading
This week, lies on the web, how retrospective worthy is Damien Hirst, reported values at auctions, micro arts patronage, the value of handmade and lots more.
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New Milan Show Dramatizes Rape of Baroque Genius
This passage in Rachel Spence's otherwise straightforward review of the current Artemisia Gentileschi exhibiton at the Palazzo Reale, Milan, immediately caught my attention yesterday in the Financial Times …
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Brooklyn Night Bazaar Unveils Plans for Trippy Interior
The energy is ramping up for the Brooklyn Night Bazaar and if the rendering of the interior by hot Euro architects JDS/Julien de Smeldt Architects is any indication, it's going to be quite a trip.
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A Short But Succinct Survey of the Current Hand Turkey Stratosphere
Hand turkey. You know you've made one. And if you haven't, well, perhaps it's time you did.
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Art Rx: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition!
While the art world slows down a bit this weekend to eat turkey, there is still plenty to do to work off all those calories, or consume more. This week's Art Rx offers a medley of Thanksgiving weekend events including Diego Rivera's murals at MoMA, Big Onion's eating tour of the Lower East Side and,
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Artist Who Sparked Yvonne Rainer Letter to MOCA Speaks Out
We now know the identity of the artist who initially wrote Yvonne Rainer to complain of the conditions of the Marina Abramović performance during the LA MOCA gala. In a letter titled "Open Letter to Artists" published by the Performance Club, performer Sara Wookey explains her motivate for initially
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OWS Performance Art Piece Lands Performer Jobless
Memo to self. If I work as an independent contractor at a market research consulting firm and we get contracts from the city's billionaire mayor, then maybe I shouldn't pretend to be his press secretary to the media. Why the memo? Because this happened [http://www.observer.com/2011/11/performance-ar