2009_creativecapitalprojectdescriptions.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Creative Capital Emerging Field winners announced. Artists include Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation;
Beatriz da Costa; eteam: Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, Catherine Herdlick; and more.
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The Big Bend Sentinel - Guest Commentary
More on the Marfa hotel rezoning: The Planning and Zoning commission voted 3-2 to approve the rezoning. The issue now goes before the City Council for review. I wish The Big Bend Sentinel listed easily viewable publishing dates. If it’s listed on that site I can’t find it.
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Cityfile: Richard Prince and Larry Gagosian Slapped with Suit
Photographer Patrick Cariou filed a lawsuit against Prince, Gagosian, and Rizzoli last week for using a number of his photographs in Prince’s “Canal Zone” exhibition without his consent, pics that Cariou alleges first appeared in his 2000 book, Yes Rasta. Ironically the artist’s personal friend and disgraced author James Frey wrote the introduction. He is not named in the suit.
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ArtCal - Chelsea - Schroeder Romero - Michael Waugh, The More I See of Men
Waugh was working on this show through the holidays while also at Momenta helping me with the fundraiser. I’m looking forward to seeing the new drawings! Opens Friday January 16th.
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ArtCal Zine - Events - The Concept of Time at the Guggenheim
“Rirkrit Tiravanija and Douglas Gordon’s Cinema Liberté presents an epic program of previously banned films to be comfortably watched on beanbag cushions.” Not necessarily a bad idea, but who hasn’t seen screened films like The Last Temptation of Christ before? How valuable is the gesture if the films have already been absorbed into the culture?
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Mysterious Sweet Smell From 2005 Returns to Manhattan - NYTimes.com
Labeled “Headline of the Day” by one facebook friend. It’s a little early yet to know, but he may be right.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Fighting Off Depression - NYTimes.com
“Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.” Hello scary.
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Twitter / 1000TimesYes
If it were anyone else I’d think promising to review 1,000 new releases in 2009 over Twitter was a little Internet hokie but I bet music critic Christopher Weingarten can pull it off. Note that the use of dashes does not indicate a minus number rating.
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Frieze Magazine | Archive | Sean Landers: Onwards!
Sean Landers reflects on his own experience with the crash in the 80’s and his expectations for the imminent crash.
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Ms. Jen Bekman - Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 million…
Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 million items on Dec. 15, compared with roughly 5.4 million on its peak day last year, the company said. It shipped more than 5.6 million products on its best day, a 44 percent rise over 2007, when it shipped about 3.9 million on its busiest day
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You’re lucky they let you photograph the sign
i wonder why they decided do make (or enforce) this… i remember taking many photos of roslyn drexler and tara donovan, with no problems. maybe it’s just for this show?
It’s a gallery policy, and not specific to one show. I discussed the gallery’s no photo policy with their PR person last month. According to their publicist there were specific instances that led them to the decision that it be necessary to restrict the general public from taking pictures. Lord knows what they were. The exchange was entirely pleasant, but I just don’t agree with their policy.
I had no problem when I shot the Bridget Riley show in January, but when I went to shoot the recent Nozkowski installation, the no-photos policy was in effect. I ended up pulling images from their site (which were very good), but I have also made the decision to not write about subsequent shows.
Really, if they’re concerned about their artists’ copyright issues, they shouldn’t post images on their own site, which are legally usable for reportage. And, they’d have to dismantle Google.
Very odd. Could it be that they want to have control over who covers their exhibits as far as the press is concerned?
It’s a practical way of keeping track of their press. I don’t know how much of that has to do with this though. I suspect it just has to do with them not wanting poor representations of the work posted on flickr. The thing is, everyone knows what they are getting when they go to that site, so I really don’t see what the problem is. If I were them, I’d invest my resources in improving their shitty website. A wealth of professionally taken images available online would obviously solve any issues they had with the random ones people are taking.