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Kanye on @#$%*ing Art Criticism
Kanye West's intermittent tweets about art always make my day, so you can imagine my joy when I saw this tweet pop up in my feed. Click through for further commentary on Mark Rothko.
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Basquiat Defaced in Paris, But Does it Matter?
An attacker “brandishing a felt-tipped pen” has vandalized a Basquiat painting on display at Paris' Modern Art Museum, the Daily Mail reports. Yet the victim, a work called “Cadillac Moon 1981,” (seen at left) “is of such an abstract nature that it took at least a few days for experts to notice the
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Who Was Robert Shapazian? Reflections On Art + Money
When Christie’s recently became a sponsor of Hyperallergic, I knew little if anything about Robert Shapazian, whose important contemporary art collection [http://www.christies.com/features/2010-october-the-collection-of-robert-shapazian-1021-1.aspx] was advertised on this site and sold this week. Th
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Alec Soth Says Art Books Don’t Get Reviewed
Despite the 2010 New York Art Book Fair getting quite a fair amount of press attention, photographer and fair participant Alec Soth feels that it wasn't exactly the right kind. His criticism lies not with the fair itself nor with its PR, rather, his opinion that critics don't often go out of their w
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Killer Criticism by @Powhida
Sometimes I wish a 1000 words could kill a picture. #criticism — William (@Powhida) November 10, 2010 I guess the old adage is wrong, how about 10,000? Art would be so much more fun if words had this kind of power.
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Art Vocabulary of the Day: Ostranenie
I thought I'd share with you a term that I encountered in my internet wanderings this morning, found in this essay by Dana Ward [http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/11/dana-ward-on-cory-arcangel/] on artist Cory Arcangel, hat tip to Modern Art Notes' excellent Wednesday link post [http://blogs.artinfo.com/m
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Yale Art Dept Website Has "Officially Cemented Trolling as an Art Form"
Yale School of Art may have the reputation of being an institution that turns out future art market-friendly artist gazillionaires, but their website is hurting the eyes of people all over the web. Recently, a bunch of users on Reddit have been cursing the institution’s jarring — which may be an und
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Breaking: Hieronymus Bosch Lied, You Can't Play the Flute With Your Butt
A group of enterprising Oxford musicologists have endeavored to recreate the musical instruments [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/07/sam-leith-shocking-news-oxford] found in the Bosch's famed 16th century painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a painting that's well known for its unreal
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New Collectors Behave Like "Louts"
Here come the new collectors, same as the old collectors. Barron's has an article [http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970203408504575588573549514034.html?mod=googlenews_barrons] on collectors from the developing world asking for unorthodox art deals, such as payment terms that extend ove
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Underbelly Project Gets Bombed, Perps Arrested
The Underbelly Project [http://hyperallergic.com/11758/underbelly-project-nyc/] caused a stir last week both because of its expansive murals and because of its politics. We've argued [http://hyperallergic.com/11758/underbelly-project-nyc/] that Underbelly was a step backward for street art, and it a
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Two Mixtapes By Yoshitomo Nara, For You
One of the most fun parts of Asia Society's Yoshitomo Nara retrospective [http://hyperallergic.com/12092/yoshitomo-nara-asia-society/] is that the galleries are soundtracked: the artist's paintings, drawings and sculptures are accompanied by a selection of handpicked tunes. Music more than anything
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Art Teachers Remembered In This Week's Comments
This week's post on Hyperallergic about how awesome art teachers are sparked a lot of response, so we decided to start a little Twitter action: we re-tweeted everyone who sent us their most influential art teachers, whether it was a college professor or an elementary school instructor. This heartwar