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LA art worlders were quick to jump on the New Yorker's recent profile [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/06/101206fa_fact_bruck] of multi-billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad. LATimes art critic Christopher Knight tweeted this article [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cultu
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Think contemporary art's going mainstream? It doesn't end with Louis Vuitton bags and album covers. Joining the cartoon figures and name-brand mascots at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were superstar contemporary artist Takashi Murakami's signature surreal characters, KaiKai and KiKi, two anime crit
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We already mention [http://hyperallergic.com/12906/italian-pm-gives-roman-statue-a-new-penis/] that the scandal-prone Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ridiculous request to provide an antique Roman sculpture with a new penis and hand but The Telegraph shows us what the before and after of
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… And just in time for the Miami art fairs! You'll remember Peter Fuss as the Polish artist who posted a billboard of a dead Obama during the 2008 US Presidential campaign, well, now he's taking aim at someone with more art world cred … the king of global gallery domination, Larry Gagosian.
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A not-unexpected surprise awaits visitors to the Miami-based Rubell Family Collection's website [http://www.rfc.museum/]. Scion of collector royalty and son of Don and Mera, Jason Rubell is releasing a catalogue of a show memorializing the works he collected from ages 13 to 21, an illustrious and ma
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Once again, it's time for the annual migration of Winter-bound art worlders to the sunny climes of Miami, Florida for Art Basel Miami Beach. The bad news is that outside of Art Basel Miami's official fair, most of the surrounding events and shows are pretty bad. Good thing Paddy Johnson has your bac
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The Financial Times kicks off a polemical article with the knock-out sentence, “Europe as a cultural centre is in danger of being eclipsed by the Middle East as western heritage industries struggle with swinging austerity measures.” Speaking to the recession-induced cuts to Western cultural organiza
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And art continues its march into mainstream pop culture … with the newly released/leaked (who can tell anymore) Kanye West track featuring Jay-Z, “That's My Bitch," which includes the following artful references to Basquiat, Picasso, Mona Lisa, and Larry Gagosian.
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Mark Billy's penis once got stolen, but that didn't bother the intrepid artist. After the sculpture went missing, Billy just made a new one! The replica is on display at #TheSocialGraph, and this time, Billy used some extra protection.
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Last year, when they announced this ridiculous thing called the Rob Pruitt Awards I thought it was a joke: the justification was that it was conceived as a performance-based art work. Come on, give me a break, we're not idiots. First off, an artist slapping his or her name on an award is just bizarr
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In the Guardian, Sam Leith writes an essay [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/29/world-of-warcraft-sam-leith] on the online multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, comparing the free experience of wandering through the game's created universe to “a medieval cathedral, a
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A major electronic media copyright issue. Agence France-Presse is arguing that "Twitter’s terms of service allow third parties broad re-use rights to their content, and thus the photographer’s selection of this mode of digital distribution gave AFP a broad license to redistribute the photographer’s