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Street Art or Garbage?
Thanks to artist Mark Jenkins, life just got a little more complicated than it used to be. In addition to the age-old dilemma of “Is it art?” we are now forced to confront the question “Is it street art?”
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An Uplifting Holocaust Memorial?
Milwaukee has a Holocaust memorial but now some members of the city’s Jewish community want another one … one that is uplifting. Critic Robin Cembalest discusses [http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/34365/monumental-dilemma/] this and other trends in the world of memorials.
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Is Marina Abramović An Undemocratic Insidery Artist?
New York Magazine explains how people get to sit with artist Marina Abramović in her MoMA atrium work titled, “The Artist Is Present” (2010), and it makes me rather mad. I will admit that I personally have Abramović fatigue but the fact that she’s far from accessible makes me dislike a work by her t
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Who Is the Favorite Artist of the Corporate Overlords?
We all know that money doesn’t mean taste, and taste doesn't earn you any money, but according to two three major corporate overlords (Goldman Sachs and IBM and Deutsche Bank) the artist of choice for capitalists is abstract artist Julie Mehretu.
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Cartoonists Vs. Islamic Iconoclasts: Have You Drawn Mohammed Today?
When people start telling other people what they can and cannot draw then we have a problem. Yesterday’s “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day!” made it clear that some religious fundamentalists need to be told to mind their own business and stop policing other people’s culture.
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A Urinal Is a Urinal Is a Urinal
How many urinals by Marcel Duchamp are there? Turns out there are at least 17. Greg Allen of Greg.org points out that fact and takes the piss [sorry, couldn’t resist] out of Washington Post critic Blake Gopnik for his recent review of “Stolen Pieces” (1995-97) at Postmasters’ Reality is Overrated sh
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What Does SCOTUS Nominee Elena Kagan Have Against Art?
Kagan can appreciate opera but not visual art? Let's hope that's not true, because as MJ Andersen blogs, “A discerning eye does more than keep a judge well-rounded. It keeps her responsive to what she beholds, and to all that resists interpretation.”
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Olympia Lambert Makes The Case for “Escape From New York”
The Village Voice [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/05/qa_art_curator.php] interviewed art blogger-turned-curator Olympia Lambert about her big exhibition in Paterson, New Jersey, which opens today.
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Trees Are Artists Too!
You know how everyone’s claiming to be an artist these days? Make-up technicians, hairdressers, gallerists, your kid sister, that crazy aunt who does crocheted landscapes? Yeah? Well now even plants are getting in on the game. British artist Tim Knowles attaches pens to the tips of tree branches and
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Lady Gaga & Klaus Biesenbach Spotted Together at MoMA
This story keeps getting better and better … first, PS1 chief curator Klaus Biesenbach told David Byrne that Lady Gaga wasn’t an artist [http://hyperallergic.com/4960/david-byrne-klaus-biesenbach-lady-gaga/], then Byrne retracted the quote [http://hyperallergic.com/5151/biesenbach-gaga-is-an-artist/
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Another Artist Unofficially “Quoted” By W Magazine
After our post about one image in Mauricio Cattelan’s W Magazine portfolio, which bares an uncanny resemblance to the work of artist Matthieu Lavancy, we discovered that that this may not be the first time the fashion magazine poached ideas from the art world. You be the judge.
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Maurizio Cattelan, W(TF?) Magazine & Artist Matthieu Lavanchy
Imitation may be the highest form of flattery but artist Mauricio Cattelan’s recent photo shoot for W Magazine has an obvious — and unattributed — reference to the work of another artist, Matthieu Lavanchy. We’re curious how that happened.