Dave LaMorte, M-16’s, 2005, wood foam cardboard, handmade paper, steel, astro turf. 300 x 40 inches
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I’m out of town today so posting will be decidedly slim. In the meantime, I will leave you with the observation that the luxury housing developers 520 West Chelsea are now advertising in Artforum’s magazine. I’d post a picture of it above, but I loath the thought that a jpeg representing the high end condo business might replace legitimate art endevors.
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.
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
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.
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.”
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.
ArtCal - Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick - the journal Gallery - Peanut Gallery
Curated by Joe Bradley. Recommended
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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Photographers, designers, and ceramicists who teach. This listing is for you.
Rhizome Screensaver (2008) - Mark Essen
I want to see this installed in corporate offices everywhere!
ArtCal - East Village / Lower East Side - SUNDAY - Keltie Ferris, Dear Sir or Madam
I’m basically evaluating jpgs here, but this show looks quite good.
Gallery Massacres Begin: Pace Wildenstein Cuts Workforce By 12% - BlackBook
Blackbook picks up our story on Pace Wildenstein cuts.
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Hipster art deer mug/dangerous chocolate-cake-in-a-mug email forward at Double Happiness. Via: Wizard is Hungry.
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Load up on guns, bring your friends
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if you are able to explain the differences between an art objects commodity status and that of the luxury condos you attempt to critique as less “legitimate” your readers would appreciate it. i find your moralizing to be thin at best and am interested in seeing you unpacking your ideas, in the hopes that you are in fact not duplicitous.
66: Condominiums do not constitute the same stuff luxury or rarefied cultural objects do; they are far more imposing on the world, delineating private space out of public and materializing abstracted class barriers. Her “critique” of the advertisement is related to the pandering of art journals to the service of the real-estate industry. The brokers at 520 West Chelsea are obviously selling ambiance as much as housing units.
First of all lets keep in mind that posting notices are not features, and therefore do not “unpack” larger ideas. Second, the point of that remark was to say that I’d rather promote under represented emerging artists who need it, as opposed to luxury condo developers who can afford the ad space in magazines.
why mention the condos to begin with AFC if you want to “promote under represented emerging artists who need it, as opposed to luxury condo developers who can afford the ad space in magazines” you gave them free advertising space.
thank you for explaining that for us AFC.
i’m glad to know that you’re aligning yourself with sound-bite culture who’s only interest is to numb our senses and shield us from having to challenge our perceptions and actually think critically.
66: And thank you for aligning with the minority reactionary outfit that decries any popular leftist agenda.
Jesus. It sounds like it’s crypto-right-wing corporate-support day around here. Why is critiquing an advertisement promoting it? Does Naomi Klein support the corporate agenda and guerrilla advertising she critiques in No Logo? Why do we attack our cultural critics with such ferocity and fervor?
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Just an update, I had a person who was interested in purchasing this piece tried scam me. She sent me a counterfeit check so that I would have sent her my work for free. I’m still pretty shocked about the whole thing.
Well at least someone was interested enough to want to steal my work.