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Randy Kennedy

Monday Links: Sotheby’s Chairman Apparently Not A Grouse

by Will Brand on August 20, 2012

  • Henry Wyndham, the European Chairman of Sotheby’s, was shot in the face last Monday in a grouse-hunting accident. As has been established, that’s a funny thing to happen to a person. Fortunately, he’s been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. [Daily Mail]
  • Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw, who you may remember from the AFCRPAAaA*, won Creative Time’s sandcastle-building competition last Friday. In keeping with their longstanding interest in needlessly elevating people, they created a multi-tiered human fountain and spit on each other. Ryan McNamara, meanwhile, buried people in polygons. [NY Times]
  • Read Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer on Mitt Romney’s plans to cut art funding. Her words: “Romney is simply following in a long line of Republicans who have used claims of cutting arts funding as a diversionary tactic, a way to appeal to conservative voters without having to talk about what a smaller government would actually look like.” [Hyperallergic]
  • AFC likes Randy Kennedy’s survey of art bookshops and art-book shops. [NY Times]
  • Tony Scott, the director and producer who created “Top Gun”, “The Good Wife”, and “Enemy of the State”, jumped off a bridge Sunday. Many people wish he hadn’t. [L.A. Times]
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Peter Nadin is an Art Press Magnet

by Paddy Johnson on July 5, 2011
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Gavin Brown seems to attract compelling narratives. Last fall, no one could shut up about Rob Pruitt’s come back. This summer, we’re all talking about the gallery’s Peter Nadin show (on view through July 30), another artist with a come back story for the ages. As the story goes, Nadin ran a gallery with Christopher D'Arcangelo in the 80′s until disputes over management dissolved the partnership. Following this, the artist suffered a nervous breakdown which according to the Times, “caused Nadin to begin seeing the world in a fundamentally different way.”

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Alright, What Contemporary Artist Should Be The Next Barbie Make Over?

by Paddy Johnson on June 30, 2011
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Does high art suddenly have mass culture appeal? Even with the growing number of reality shows on the subject my guess would be no — most people I know outside the field aren’t exactly spending a lot of time reading up on the subject –but clearly the creative folks over at Mattel don’t agree.  This week, the toy company released three new Barbies inspired by well known works of art.

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