Art - When Advertisers Borrow Imagery From Artists - NYTimes.com
Says art lawyer Donn Zaretsky “…advertising people are being more and more brazen in their borrowing. On the one hand they should be mining the art world for inspiration…But more and more they seem to be getting into the territory of blatant rip-offs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
The Tomorrow Museum made Fimoculous’s list this year!
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
ArtCal - Chelsea - Jack Shainman Gallery - Nick Cave, Recent Soundsuits
More Soundsuits by Nick Cave. These things are amazing. Opens January 8th.
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
