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Doonan’s 8 Theories
Via slate.com
Nov 2012
Slate style columnist and longtime Barney’s window dresser Simon Doonan offers theories on “why the art world is so loathsome.” In his sights: Art Basel Miami, “the growing mania for melanging fashion with art,” and the art world’s coziness with one-percenters.
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Kahlo’s Closet
Via dailymail.co.uk
Nov 2012
The Blue House in Mexico City is offering a new way to see Frida Kahlo’s life and art—through an exhibition of her prosthetic legs, dresses, and corsets, including one similar to the back brace she wore in her self-portrait The Broken Column.
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Beck’s Beer
Via gawker.com
Nov 2012
Glenn Beck—yes, he’s still around—has made his own Andres Serrano-style artwork by photographing an Obama toy in a jar of beer (initially he claimed it was urine). It’s his reaction to an artist who painted an image of the president crucified.
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Critiquing Johnson
Via artinfo.com
Nov 2012
Glenn Ligon and Coco Fusco are among the 800+ signers of a petition to the NY Times criticizing Ken Johnson’s writing: “Using irresponsible generalities, Johnson compares women and African-American artists to white male artists, only to find them lacking.”
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Amarylis and the 100th Anniversary of Tony Smith’s Birth
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Nov 2012
On the centennial of Tony Smith’s birth, Big Red & Shiny looks at the Minimalist sculptor’s 1965 work Amarylis, a version of which was reinstalled last week outside the Wadsworth Atheneum. The 7,000-pound sculpture, made of painted Cor-Ten steel, was created in an edition of three: the Wadsworth and the Met each own one, while […]
On the centennial of Tony Smith’s birth, Big Red & Shiny looks at the Minimalist sculptor’s 1965 work Amarylis, a version of which was reinstalled last week outside the Wadsworth Atheneum. The 7,000-pound sculpture, made of painted Cor-Ten steel, was created in an edition of three: the Wadsworth and the Met each own one, while the Walker owns the third, which is on view in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. BR&S’s John Pyper…
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Faux Richter
Via vulture.com
Nov 2012
Irked by skyrocketing art prices—like last month’s sale of a Gerhard Richter for $34.2 million—critic Jerry Saltz put out an open call last winter: Make a fake Richter, Ryman, or Hirst, and he’d buy it for $155. Stanley Casselman delivered.
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Sahrawi S.O.S.
Via santiago-sierra.com
Nov 2012
Santiago Sierra says he created the “world’s largest graffiti” in Algeria last month. With Artifariti and Frente Polisario, he carved the letters S.O.S. —1.7 km high and 5 km long—into the earth near camps where Sahrawi refugees have struggled since the 1970s.
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Porno-Graphics
Via badatsports.com
Nov 2012
Bad at Sports digs up a copy of Dan Greenburg’s 1969 book Porno-Graphics: The Shame of Our Museums, an interactive book that covers up nudity in great artwork, allowing readers to pull a lever to expose flesh in art like Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase.
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Articles



Synaesthetic Fantasia: David Breskin and Nels Cline on DIRTY BABY
Doug Benidt & Paul Schmelzer
Nov 2012
“A synaesthetic fantasia, DIRTY BABY marries music to pictures, pictures to poems, and poems to music,” writes David Breskin of the new work he’s orchestrated that combines Ed Ruscha’s paintings, music by Wilco’s Nels Cline, and his own poems, written in the ghazal form. In an e-mail exchange, Breskin and Cline tease out the threads of this transglobal, interdisciplinary, multimedia experience.