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Does AA Bronson Have a Legal Right to Remove His Work from Hide/Seek?
The short answer is probably not [http://artmeetslaw.blogspot.com/2010/12/finally-serious-response-to.html] under US law but we're not sure under Canadian law.
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Voina Update: 'We will...carry out...punk ideals into life.'
We reported on the case of the Russian art collective Voina last week [http://hyperallergic.com/15354/voina-interview/] but today Marina Galperina of Animal NY has an update and interview [http://animalnewyork.com/2010/12/voina-to-animal-real-art-is-in-the-street-or-in-prison/] with Voina's Alexei P
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Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery Pulls a Smithsonian
Mira Schor writes about the disturbing reaction of the Gagosian Gallery (and the NYPD) during a silent protest at the gallery's 24th Street space last week. [HUFFINGTON POST [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mira-schor/gagosian-gallery-pulls-a_b_801033.html]]
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Robert Greenwald Blasts Jeffrey Deitch's Order to Destroy Blu Mural
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films shoots down MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch's decision to whitewash the Blu mural without consulting the community … This.Is.A.Must.Read. …
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Hot Links, Upside-Down Christmas Tree Edition
Christmas blues got you down? Have I got the solution for you! Check out a hot fresh batch of links for the lead-up to Christmas and all that other stuff, sure to delight, entertain, educate and amaze. I guarantee there is no Wojnarowicz or Blu content to be found. Above, I've switched out Natalie J
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Top Ten Twitter Follows for Chinese Art
As far as the year in social media goes, Twitter is far and away my choice for a handy source of updates, information and air-testing inside the art world or out. Pretty much anything that you want to know about gets broadcast into your Twitter stream with a good enough group of follows. To the end
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Ian Bogost Casts Video Games as Haiku
Critic, writer and independent game developer Ian Bogost has created a suite of four games entitled “A Slow Year.” Comprised of a set piece about each of the four seasons, Bogost has made video games into meditations, interactive haiku meant to slow down the player instead of them speed up. Kotaku [
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Allora & Calzadilla's Hole-y Piano
This video was produced for MoMA's ninth installment of the Performance Exhibition Series [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1124], which features Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, more commonly referred to as Allora & Calzadilla, and the staging of their haunting performance "S
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Jeff Koons' Balls Remade Into Lego Sculpture
The Little Artists, now known as Cake & Neave, turn iconic works of art into tiny lego sculptures. In one series, the duo create artist portraits like this one of Jeff Koons, featured with his (basket)balls. This isn't the Made in Heaven series, people!
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European Commission Deems Flavin "Lighting Fittings"
If it looks like lighting, smells like lighting and lights things up, it's probably lighting! At least so says the European Commission in an argument over whether or not the work of Dan Flavin and Bill Viola qualify as art. They don't think so, and express their criticisms in a series of hilarious q
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Why Secretary Clough Won't Leave the Smithsonian
The scandal that erupted when the Smithsonian's secretary G. Wayne Clough decided to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibition under Republican political pressure shows no sign of calming down. Only in the past week, the Warhol Foundati
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Picasso’s eBay Period
The Bygone Bureau's Jimmy Chen imagines what it would be like if Picasso had used eBay [http://bygonebureau.com/2010/12/15/picassos-ebay-period/]. Hilarity ensues. Great line, "bitch i’m trying to make a living. check out my new painting."