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Fizzy Prince
Via huffingtonpost.com
Oct 2012
A contender for “most bizarre sellout debacle of all time,” Richard Prince Lemon Fizz, a collaboration with AriZona beverages, features images of Prince’s artwork—including his nurse paintings—on the can.
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Top 100
Via guardian.co.uk
Oct 2012
ArtReview’s annual list of the most powerful figures in contemporary art puts Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, curator of this year’s dOCUMENTA, on top. Among the artists, curators and dealers listed are Pussy Riot, Cindy Sherman, and Slavoj Zizek.
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Art Square
Via animalnewyork.com
Oct 2012
Times Square Arts Square hopes to “transform the world’s largest advertising space into the world’s largest exhibition space.” Hrag Vartanian has been appointed chief curator, and Rafaël Rozendaal is the first artist to sign on.
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Value in Experience
Via nytimes.com
Oct 2012
This year’s FIAC art fair is showing several pieces of conceptual art including works by On Kawara and Dieter Meier. Director Jennifer Flay sees FIAC as a “stomping ground” for performance art, creating an “emotional and intellectual acquisition” of art.
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Lichtenstein Comes Home
Via nytimes.com
Oct 2012
Lichtenstein’s work Electric Cord has been returned since its disappearance 42 years ago. The painting went missing after it was sent out for cleaning. Asked what she would do with it, the owner’s widow replied, “I think I’m going to hang it up in my home.”
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Art Heist
Via guardian.co.uk
Oct 2012
Seven works from major modern artists have been stolen from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. Dutch police have listed paintings from Picasso, Matisse, de Haan, and Freud. Though no value has been released yet, the paintings are believed to be worth millions.
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Butterfly Massacre?
Via telegraph.co.uk
Oct 2012
Damien Hirst is under fire after it emerged that more than 9,000 butterflies were killed in his exhibition at Tate. Butterfly experts and the RSPCA have responded, with a PETA spokesperson saying “Hirst’s quest to be edgy is as boring as it is callous.”
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Dancing with Duchamp
Via guardian.co.uk
Oct 2012
Marcel Duchamp’s impact on art history is well-known, but the Barbican’s newly announced multimedia season, gets specific, digging into how the Dada trickster influenced John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns.
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Passings: Michael Asher
Via eastofborneo.org
Oct 2012
Conceptual artist and CalArts professor Michael Asher has passed away at age 69, after a long illness. A master of “institutional critique,” he most recently exhibited at 2010 Whitney Biennial and at last year’s Pacific Standard Time.