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A Dealer, An Artist & His Bookie: William Acquavella & Lucien Freud
This is a wonderfully vivid story from the WSJ about the relationship of dealer William Acquavella and artist Lucien Freud and the artist's bookie.
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Ugliest (and Earliest) Cezanne Ever Found
Ok, some dude buys a painting cuz he likes the frame, turns out it may be Post-Impressionist super-painter Paul Cezanne's earliest painting eva — he would've been a 15 year old art student at the time. Now that people think it's a Cezanne it may be worth £40million. But wait, it's pretty fugly. Disc
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Julian Schnabel Screams Over GF's Hair on NBC
This for your day in art world gossip — Julian Schnabel, past-his-prime 80s neo-expressionist painter and burgeoning filmmaker, got into a screaming match with girlfriend Rula Jebreal over how NBC stylists had done her hair for an appearance on Morning Joe.
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Jen Bekman's Zombie Army
Watch your back, art world. There's a dark force quietly building on the margins, slowly growing strong on a diet of cheap print editions and Tumblr posts. Yes, it's Jen Bekman's Zombie Army, and they're here to EAT YOUR BRAINS sell you art!
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Art in the Aggregate
In response to my post on ambient creativity, speaking to how our online creative outlets of Twitter and Facebook might be sapping our ambition for bigger projects, the idea came up that maybe we don't need to seek out masterpieces of these new media. Instead, what about thinking of social media net
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Newst Week Hacks Internet Headlines
Can you believe your internet? Newst Week is a physical device that gets implanted by pranksters in a specific location, a coffee shop, for example. After connecting to the internet through a local router, the device intercepts wireless signals going to computers and edits the headlines on news webs
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Why China's Auction Market is Tops
A study by Artprice finds that the Chinese art market is the largest in the world — but only in terms of auctions. The misleading news bite is telling in other ways, though. The Chinese domestic auction market is growing so quickly in part because Western auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's
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For Afghanistan, Museum Loans as Cultural Diplomacy
Though the National Museum of Afghanistan is nowhere near running at full capacity and still hasn't recovered many of the artifacts lost from its collections in the upheaval of the past decade, a touring exhibition of some of the museum's signature works is bringing both funding and visibility to a
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Tribeca Film Fest Gets Art Instead of Trophies
This year's Tribeca Film Festival will still be picking winners from a pile of nominated indie and otherwise films, but the best of the best will be getting a different prize this year — works of art. Including the likes of Robert De Niro Sr., Inka Essenhigh and Nate Lowman, it's all about artists g
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Philly Bench Brings Up Questions of Public Space
Is there such a thing as anti-public seating? We're all used to the presence of urban furniture as an accessible public good, from benches to bike racks and bus shelters. But what happens when the design of these resources is actually anti-user? A public bench in a Philadelphia train station brings
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William Powhida Opines About New York Art Critics
For tonight's Triangle Arts Association benefit at Beacon restaurant in midtown Manhattan, artist William Powhida submitted this wry drawing of his thoughts about some of the city's art critics.
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Required Reading
This week … what makes an artist a professional, taking Rirkrit Tiravanija's relational aesthetics for a joyride, Jan Gossaert at the Nat'l Gallery, post-Katrina New Orleans, a history of title design in cinema, stereoscopic pics as GIFs, Eli Broad's art collection, Google Street View as art & in Ch