Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : The New Yorker Obama Cover
Choire Sicha: Department of Tiresome Outrage: The New Yorker Obama Cover
And I Am Not Lying D.Billy: Street Interventions
“Pretty awesome artist”. I like a lot of this work.
MTAA-RR [ news/mriver/rhizome_ghost.html ]
"a one-month public haunting of rhizome.org." I rather like this…
The Moment The Post-Materialist | Satirizing Luxury « - T Magazine - New York Times Blog
Nick Currie looks at Japanese art collective Chim↑Pom, and Michael Portnoy, two artists who satirize luxury without being totally cliche about it.
Past Shock: The Current Cinema: The New Yorker
David Denby writes, ““The Dark Knight” has been made in a time of terror, but it’s not fighting terror; it’s embracing and unleashing it—while making sure, with proper calculation, to set up the next installment of the corporate franchise.”
greg.org: the making of: And That’s The Way It Was
Greg Allen on Rachel Barrett and Cheyney Thompson
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.
An excellent review of the New Museum’s current show After Nature. Hrag Vartanian is truly an under appreciated blog.
Treasury Acts to Save Mortgage Giants - NYTimes.com
News that should make almost everyone a little nervous.
Rap’s 2008, Beyond Lil Wayne - Music - Village Voice
“For all its brilliant moments, Wayne’s Tha Carter III is a schizophrenic mess….but in the two-and-a-half-year feeding frenzy to anoint Weezy the new king, critics ignoring more conceptually sound—not to mention better—rap albums that dropped in 2008″
Modest Web Site Is Behind a Bevy of Memes - WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal’s Jamin Brophy-Warren discusses 4chan. Via: fimoculous
How’s My Dealing?: Never Work - R.I.P. Closed June 2008
That was fast. Never Work had a super tiny space, but I liked some of the work they showed.
Daniel Lefcourt’s work can be seen in the group exhibition at Taxter & Spengemann Union Square, which opened yesterday.
Damien Hirst is rewriting the rules of the market - The Art Newspaper
The final frontier protecting contemporary art galleries from the encroachment of the auction houses has been breached with the announcement that Damien Hirst is creating an exhibition of new works for display and sale at Sotheby’s London. Via: Newsgrist
Until September 5, 2008 we invite the submission of works and projects that respond to [the challenges climate change presents] and embody contemporary notions of art that embrace, question and enrich digital culture.
Frieze Magazine | Comment | Genuinely Rude
…Are we seeing ‘a crisis in critical negativity’? Are we ‘post-rude’…?… the press officer for one stable of artists demanded to know in advance what I was going to write and asked for a substantial fee for the right to reproduce a photo
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Harold Wolfson, former top Hillary Clinton advisor, announced his move to Fox News Channel. Via bloggy
Trend-tracking site BuzzFeed gets $3.5 million in funding | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
Buzzfeed recieves funding. Johah Peretti, who you may remember as Eyebeam’s Director of R&D and from Black People Love Us.com is a co-founder.
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.
Zoophilia pr0n? : Wacky Archives
Witness the boring things you can do with Photoshop. I imagine this to be a blind Suburban interpretation of what Pony Porn might look like.
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
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