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Go As Van Gogh
Via hyperallergic.com
Oct 2012
From the shaggy Van Gogh beard and ear bandage to the Frida Kahlo monobrow, Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian runs down ideas for Halloween costumes for parents who want to “dress your children like you hate them but love art.”
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PSY Weiwei
Via artinfo.com
Oct 2012
K-pop phenom PSY did not, in fact, drop by Ai Weiwei’s studio in Beijing this week, as filmmaker Alison Klayman noted online. Still, here’s a sweet shot of Ai and his studio crew dancing to “Gangnam Style.”
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Allergic to Power
Via galleristny.com
Oct 2012
“I’m a little allergic to the word power,” says dOCUMENTA (13) curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on topping ArtReview's “Power 100” list. “I like the words potentiality and potential and possibility, which are all coming from the same etymology.”
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Two Sides of Gaard
Via mnoriginal.org
Oct 2012
“I like the combination of very innocent and not very innocent,” Frank Gaard tells Minnesota Original of the dualism in his art. Subject of the 2012 Walker show Poison & Candy, he says he likes “humor and malevolence… a sugar and spice kind of thing.”
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Mapplethorpe X
Via latimes.com
Oct 2012
His “is an art that challenges existing norms, but we are used to that in the history of art.” This 1990 quote by then-Walker director Martin Friedman is on the wall at LACMA for a show of Mapplethorpe photos that helped spark the ‘90s culture wars.
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“Degenerate” Memorial
Via bbc.co.uk
Oct 2012
Fundraising has begun to erect a monument to “degenerate artists”—creators like Paul Klee, Max Ernst, and Kurt Schwitters who were oppressed by Hitler. The site is in northwest England, where Schwitters settled after fleeing the Nazis in Germany.
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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.
