A Kinder, Gentler Art Basel - ARTINFO.com
“But it felt almost like the old boom times, at least for a minute, at New York’s PaceWildenstein, when an American collector snapped up an Alexander Calder sterling silver necklace from 1941 for $450,000 as soon as she tried it on. “She put it on and owned it right then and there,” said the gallery’s Jennifer Joy.” Of course the gallery’s publicist is going to tell you about the quick buys.
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Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult! - Roger Ebert’s Journal
Says Roger Ebert, “A newspaper film critic is like a canary in a coal mine. When one croaks, get the hell out.” The Associated Press imposes a 500 word limit on all of its entertainment writers - this includes reviews and interview. Via: MAN
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Twitter / judyrey
Judy Rey Wasserman changed her twitter profile picture from Rembrandt (Psalm 22) to Vincent Van Gogh (Psalm 133) five minutes after the Wall Street stock market closed and labeled the action “Twitter’s First Post Conceptual Performance Art Event”. Personally I prefer web artists investigating mediocrity and boringness on the web to dull performance art with smart sounding titles but at least the press release is well put together. Also Wasserman is also the first artist to send me a direct twitter about an art event, so she gets points for that.
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Art Menu | Index
Good idea. “Art Menu seeks aspiring artists, fresh from Arts School or self-taught, to promote and help sell their works of art in restaurants, bars, clubs and boutique hotels across London.”
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tom moody » New Media vs Artists with Computers
Compares two movements: “art photography” and “artists with cameras” with “New Media” vs “Artists with Computers”. A great post. Update: The above link seems to direct AFC for some unknown reason.
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Twitter / nullnode
I rather like this very minimal twitter account.
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Miami and Miami Beach Art Fairs - December 2008
Directory of contemporary art fairs that will be in Miami and Miami Beach in December 2008. Each listing includes brief description, location, hours and admission price.
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NSCAD University employment opportunities
Photographers, designers, and ceramicists who teach. This listing is for you.
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Rhizome Screensaver (2008) - Mark Essen
I want to see this installed in corporate offices everywhere!
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double happiness » Blog Archive » Fwd: Fw: Re: DANGEROUS CHOCOLATE CAKE~IN~A~MUG
Hipster art deer mug/dangerous chocolate-cake-in-a-mug email forward at Double Happiness. Via: Wizard is Hungry.
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does commercial success in one field breed desire for success in another? i’ve told you this in conversation before, but david bryne, who makes some interesting non-musical work, might be an interesting counterpoint here. to get back to Cohen, though, his list of credentials also include a mildly popular novel, which i haven’t ready and, judging it on some reviews, probably won’t be reading any time soon.
I just feel a lot of cross discipline promotion is premature. David Bryne and Brian Eno are good examples of artists who are extremely versatile, but most times I think people are looking for ways to capitalize commercially on fame. And sometimes it’s just misguided good will. The best recent example of this I can think of comes from Abha Dawesar, whose reading for her novel Babyji I had attended some time ago and I quite enjoyed. About a year later she was given a show at the Village Quill. Check out this work. I mean her art isn’t hurting anyone but….
oh man. i think it was a good on her web designer’s to skip on making the paintings clickable to enlarge ;)