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Required Reading
This week is a grab bag of reviews, video clips, profiles and historic finds.
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A Grassroots Arts Organizer in Philly Responds to "Inequality in Arts Funding" Post
We often get messages and responses to our posts but occasionally some really stand out. The following was in response to the inequality in US arts funding post from Tuesday and it comes from someone in Philadelphia who seems to know the inequality all too well.
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David Wojnarowicz's Journals Make His Private World Very Public
Just in time for National Coming Out Day last Tuesday and the November opening of the controversial Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, Triple Canopy has published a selection of visual artist and writer David Wojnarowicz's journals online. Giving readers
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252+ Professional Photographers Say Enough Is Enough
In a letter to "potential photo buyers" 252+ self-identified professional photographers outline why they can't "work for free." This letter appears designed as a link that photographers can send to individuals who request the use of images for no monetary compensation.
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A Thought About Art and Protest, or Tonight at Zuccotti Park
I was heartbroken to find the pool of signs gone at Zuccatti Park, yes, they are currently on display at No Comment [http://hyperallergic.com/37728/occupy-wall-street-art-exhbition-no-comment/], the OWS-affiliated art exhibit, but there was something beautiful in that space for art making and signag
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Dior Gets Perspex-tive from Anselm Reyle
Designer/artist crossbreeding is nothing new. MAC had Cindy Sherman, Louis Vuitton had Takashi Murakami, and Stella McCartney had Barry Reigate. But for the 65 year-old house of Dior, a new accessories and cosmetics collection made in collaboration with German contemporary artist Anselm Reyle may be
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The Inequality in US Arts Funding
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has published a report that spotlights arts funding and has this to say: "Each year, foundations award about $2.3 billion to the arts, but the distribution of these funds does not reflect the country's evolving cultural landscape and changing demogr
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Required Reading
This week, street art blows in North Africa, discussing the Eames design legacy, the future of the books, Chomsky on #OccupyWallStreet, Ed Winkleman on cartels, de Kooning's studio in 1982 and Steve Jobs.
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Proenza Schouler Meets Harmony Korine with Questionable Results (And Possibly Pedophilia)
What happens when the suave gentlemen of the New York-based womenswear and accessories brand Proenza Schouler cross paths with the provocative trash-humping auteur Harmony Korine? This shit, apparently.
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Before Occupy Wall Street, Artforum Remembers There Was Asco
Usually associated with long-winded art historical articles and page after page of gallery ads, Artforum made an unexpected but exciting move in their October issue by placing Asco, a politically radical Chicano artist collective from the 1970s on the cover. Perhaps igniting a real art historical in
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#OccupyWallStreet Journal Map Calls Mark di Suvero's "Joie de Vivre" Weird
Liza Eliano and I stopped by Occupy Wall Street yesterday and we picked up a copy of the first edition of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. A four-page broadsheet, the back had a funny map marking that made us laugh out loud. "Art / Signs" are marked with a ♥ but Abstract Expressionist sculptor Mark
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99% of the Art World
If some in the art world are the 1%, most of us are the other 99%. [We Are the 99 Percent [http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11037150025] tumblelog]