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Circle Glasses: The Art World’s Gateway to Power

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on August 13, 2012

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Do you have square glasses? Better put that paint brush down if your answer’s yes, because your art career is over.

Observe.

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Friday Links! Cats, More Cats, and Jeffrey Deitch

by Paddy Johnson on July 13, 2012

Five MoCA Trustees leave since February, artist John Baldessari becoming the lastest. Can we please just bring Jeffrey Deitch home? [L.A. Times]
Lifetime Trustees write an open letter complaining about the new direction MoCA has taken. [L.A. Times]
The New York Times finally files a piece on the MoCA fiasco. [JUST KIDDING]
Hyperallergic’s “My Chuck Close Problem” has gone so viral that people have been writing our tips email with their responses to the piece. If you haven’t already, it’s time to read that piece. [Hyperallergic]
Photographer Fiona Gardner’s Meet Miss Subways series is so close to being funded! This is a really great project and there are only nine days to go. Help her out! [Kickstarter]
OMG. The Walker will host the first Internet Cat Festival August 30th. We have to go! [L.A. Times]
Holland Cotter gives the Yayoi Kusama show the thumbs up and well he should. It’s fantastic. [NY Times]
Residency Unlimited will host their first fundraiser, Saturday July 22nd. Attend this and you will feel good that you did. The folks there support a lot of great artists so your money will be well spent. [Residency Unlimited]
Baby tigers think they are puppies. [SF Chronicle]
The Rose Art Museum seems to be getting on track. Three years ago the museum announced that it was in such dire straits that it needed to sell off its art collection—or fire most of its staff. During this time, the museum has been without a permanent Director, but now they’ve hired Christopher Bedford. He’s leaving his position as Chief Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts, where over the past four years he has helped bring exhibitions of Mark Bradford, Omar Fast, and Cyprien Gaillard to the Ohio State campus. [The Boston Globe]
Call for golf-loving artists! The Knockdown Center in Queens is accepting submissions for mini-golf hole designs, due July 22nd. The winners will get a $300, and a $400 stipend for materials. [The Knockdown Center]

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by Sponsors on December 21, 2011

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