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Venice Redux: Best Art Viewing Strategies Highlights from 2011

by Paddy Johnson on May 27, 2013
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Two years ago I wrote a wrap-up of the Venice Biennale for Rupert Murdock’s iPad only publication, The Daily. The site folded about a year later, and is now off line, so I’m republishing the review as a refresher for those going into the show. The lede: If the Venice Biennale were a race, no one would finish.

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Wednesday Links: #MittRomneyHatesArt

by Leighann Morris on September 26, 2012

  • If you were anywhere near Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, you would have seen graffiti artist Saber flying five planes in formation across sunny Sunday skies with messages reprimanding presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his plans to kill funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and other much needed arts organisations (which is really funny, considering the Romney plane window comments that flooded the internet today). Anti-Romney messages included “#MittRomneyHatesArt” and “#DefendTheArts”. We’re not quite sure hashtags work on clouds, but you can watch a video of the spectacle here. [HuffPo]
  • Oh no, someone is putting on an exhibition inspired by “Lost”.  ”Lost (in LA)”, curated by the former director of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Wahler, is due to take place at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park (1 December-27 January 2013), with works by Tatiana Trouvé, Oscar Tuazon, and Thomas Hirschhorn, among others. [The Art Newspaper]
  • NADA’s released its exhibitor list for Miami Beach 2012, and ArtINFO has the breakdown. Over half are new additions. [ArtINFO]
  • The Warhol Foundation announced this month that it had settled a deal with Christie’s to liquidate all of its remaining art holdings, aiming to raise money for more grants. Christine J. Vincent assesses Warhol’s philanthropic legacy. [The Art Newspaper]
  • This week marks the beginning of the Gwangju Biennale. Overseen by six female curators from the Middle East and Asia, the Biennale explores themes of civic protest with artworks that deal with resistance campaigns from South Korea all the way to the global Occupy movement. [The Guardian]
  • Can the art world go a day without talking about Andy Warhol? I thought I’d left it all behind after reading all the reviews of Regarding Warhol at the Met, but now news is in that the British Royal Collection has bought Warhol’s screenprint portraits of the Queen. They will be in an exhibition this year. Warhol did say that one day he wanted to be as famous as the Queen of England? [Artdaily]
  • Was Expo Chicago a success? Hard to know from Julia Halperin’s mixed report, but sales don’t appear to be overwhelmingly strong. Dealer spin for this fair? “Chicagoans are a little more cautious.” [ArtInfo]
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Should Artists Go To The Venice Biennale?

by Paddy Johnson on June 9, 2011
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Are biennales like art fairs – a quick way to kill an artist’s soul? I sometimes had this impression while I was in Venice last week, even though nothing is for sale. There’s a lot of art to see, sure, but more importantly, people to schmooze! Given that the day the Biennale opens to the public the crowds thin dramatically — this is same day the three-day advance press and VIP preview closes — it’s hard to think the show is mostly about the art.

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Paddy Johnson at The Daily: Best in Show at The Venice Biennale

by Paddy Johnson on June 7, 2011
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If the Venice Biennale were a race, no one would finish. There's too much art to see, which means people look at what's talked about and make empty promises to return in the summer – the exhibition is up through November 27th.

But how effective a viewing strategy is following the buzz? Better than one would think.

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