May 2012
40 posts
Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review →
#welldamn
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing … the...
– John Coltrane
Art, Ancestry, Africa: Letting It All Bleed →
Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran collaborated in “Bleed,” a limited residency at the Whitney Biennial last week.
-Ben Ratliff for NYT
Getty Research Institute Plans Massive Online...
From GalleristNY.com and written by Andrew Russeth
Almost 20,000 art history texts will soon be a few clicks away for anyone using the Internet. The Getty Research Institute announced that on May 31 it will launch the Getty Research Portal, a search engine of sorts to the digitized content of many of the world’s premier art-history libraries and institutions.
The portal, which is open to anyone...
As (Ishmael) Reed said, “NeoHooDoo believed that every man is an artist,...
– Franklin Sirmans ends his essay, “Recapturing Spirit in Contemporary Art” for his show - NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith. Was thinking of his and Greg Tate’s writings as Bleed concluded last night.
Collecting is a Wonderful Illness
Simon de Pury and Daphne Guinness in Conversation, Part One
Via @NOWNESS
The Caucus: Obama Backs Same-Sex Marriage →
President Obama is expected to discuss an event that has been consuming his presidency this week.
Word! #itsabouttime
Bryan Stevenson @TED one of my favorite T-talks
If I Had the Cash, I Wouldn’t Buy That →
The critic Holland Cotter contemplates what he would do with about $120 million, the amount recently spent at auction for a version of Edvard Munch’s “Scream.”
April 2012
8 posts
Meanings in the Market →
MONEY isn’t everything.
Or wait — is it? Given the transformation of the quaint old art world into today’s immense and mighty art industry, that maxim holds about as much water as a Conceptual Art sieve.
FRIENDS, we will miss ELIZABETH CATLETT, but her legacy will forever live on. We have been asked to pass along the following from the MORA CATLETT FAMILY.
We are informing you that Elizabeth Catlett, has peacefully passed away April 2, 2012, at her home in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. She is survived by her three children Francisco, Juan and David Mora Catlett, her daughters in Law, Danys Perez,...
March 2012
33 posts
How Much Art Can Fit Into Cattelan and Gioni’s... →