In case anyone missed it Tyler Green asks Christian Viveros-Faune about his conflict of interest in holding a post as the Village Voice art critic while organizing and co-directing two commercial art fairs (Volta in NYC, Next in Chicago). Viveros-Faune shamefully cites other conflicts of interest in the art world to excuse his own. Green’s interview here, and follow up thoughts here.
Big trouble for Big Three automakers | csmonitor.com
"Shares of General Motors are trading at prices last seen in the 1950s, their value cut in half in just eight weeks. Ford and Chrysler are in even worse shape, analysts say. The sobering implication: The Big Three may have to become the Big Two…"
Uncomfortable Answers to Questions on the Economy - NYTimes.com
An uncomfortable read. Tough times ahead.
Recommended. *SVA’s Design Criticism Reading Series: Michael Bierut, Jennifer Kabat, Paul Lukas and Phil Patton
We are living in a golden age of the pseudo-meaningful stunt. After all, the democratization of bullshit on the Internet is making it harder and harder to get noticed….This week’s delicacy comes from Sotheby’s, which delivers the news that Damien Hirst has produced a golden calf.
I Don’t Have Time For Noncontroversial Art Exhibits | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
"These days, my schedule is pretty packed. Take this week, for example. Monday: Abu Ghraib flip books. Tuesday: a blackface reenactment of the Reagan assassination attempt. Wednesday: drive upstate to watch an amputee roast and eat his own golden retrieve
Behind Walls of Warehouses, a Trove of Artwork - NYTimes.com
At the same time that art museums and galleries have developed larger collections, they have fewer options to expand. Perhaps inevitably, an art services industry that has sprung up in the dark warehouses of New York City’s boroughs is also growing.
Zoilus: Woah, oh, oh, we’re counting to four
Carl Wilson think’s Feist remake of 1 2 3 4 for sesame street improves upon the original. A nice compilation of Sesame street counting songs including one by Phillip Glass. Via: ss
Why Do People Love to Hate The New York Times?: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
There are some good David Carr quotes in this piece.
ArtCal - East Village / Lower East Side - Canada - Journey to the Center of Uranus
Recommended. Eunice Kim, Paul Slocum, Alistair Frost, Willy LeMaitre, Ida Ekblad, Bjorn Copeland, Lizzi Bougatsos, Theo Mercier, Rob Swainston, Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Web Worker Daily Archive - What You Should Know Before you Switch from BlackBerry to iPhone
Blackberry vrs iphone. via: Bloggy
New Museum Launches Triennial - ARTINFO.com
“Younger Than Jesus”, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, and Lauren Cornell will focus on the work of artists born around 1980. “We want to find the defining factors that shape generational change.” says Gioni, “We will try to analyze how generations emerge”
Kriston Capps: Jesse Helms: The Intimidation of Art and the Art of Intimidation
“It would take a political genius to drum up enough public outrage over obscene art to make these real-life obscenities fade..,” Steiner says. That’s surely true…but this this sort of strategy—promote a distraction, distort its significance—is the GOP’s favorite brushstroke.
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
It’s time to regulate the arts, really…
It’s time to regulate the arts, really…
It may be time for that, but let’s be up front about what that means. First of all, each artist wanting to exhibit their work may need to hire a lawyer or manager to work out their contracts with galleries and museums. If you go the lawyer route, you can expect, in NYC to pay at least $350/hour. Unless you go with free services, but you may need to get in a long line then. If you go the manager route, it may cost you an extra 10-15% of what you sell. There may be other models, but none are free or hassle free.
How will this impact the struggling artists wanting to build up enough sales to quit their day jobs? Hard to say at this point (clearly it doesn’t stop ambitious young actors or musicians), but it will almost certainly ensure that galleries, who will have to hire their own lawyers, take fewer chances on artists for whom sales are not a sure thing.