December 2010
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Art Critic Jerry Saltz’s Open Letter to the... →
“I would like you to know about a similar threat to decency. Right now, during the season when many children are passing through the Metropolitan Museum of Art on their way to see the Christmas tree, there are on view numerous Greek vases that depict men with erections, many of them cavorting with one another; paintings of children standing on their mothers’ laps and urinating; multiple...
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What Bubble? →
Auction house Christie’s made a staggering $5 billion dollars in 2010, beating its previous earnings record set in 2007, at the peak of the art boom. Sotheby’s, hasn’t released figures yet, but the auction house indicated on its Web site that they made on or above the $4.2 billion mark this year in public auctions, not including private sales.
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F.C.C. Poised to Pass Watered Down Net Neutrality... →
“Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, said over the weekend that the F.C.C. was effectively allowing discrimination on the Internet by adopting weak rules for wireless Internet access… ‘If corporations are allowed to prioritize content on the Internet, or they are allowed to block applications you access on your iPhone, there is nothing to prevent those same...
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Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook →
“In a lot of ways, I don’t need to work around the conventional media. Conventional media’s on its way out…Everything was put in the context of: what does the consumer want? I hate the term “consumer.” I hate the term “consumption of news.” Consuming, to me, seems like something that happens with Big Macs. By and large, the conventional media followed this approach of targeting the...
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Sonic tables, Cattle Auctioneers and a Gospel... →
“Sonic tables, cattle auctioneers and a gospel choir are brought together for an aural experience at MOCA. ‘I think part of the purpose of museums is to serve friction,’ said the artist Doug Aitken. ‘Things that make you wake up, that make you think… When the artist Doug Aitken was commissioned to choreograph this year’s MoCA benefit he took the concept and ran with it —...
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Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook →
“In a lot of ways, I don’t need to work around the conventional media. Conventional media’s on its way out…Everything was put in the context of: what does the consumer want? I hate the term “consumer.” I hate the term “consumption of news.” Consuming, to me, seems like something that happens with Big Macs. By and large, the conventional media followed this approach of targeting the...
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Sonic tables, Cattle Auctioneers and a Gospel... →
“Sonic tables, cattle auctioneers and a gospel choir are brought together for an aural experience at MOCA. ‘I think part of the purpose of museums is to serve friction,’ said the artist Doug Aitken. ‘Things that make you wake up, that make you think… When the artist Doug Aitken was commissioned to choreograph this year’s MoCA benefit he took the concept and ran with it —...
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Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About Bad Art,... →
Jerry Saltz talks about The New Republic writer (Jed Perl) who is protesting The New Museum showing the Wojnarowicz video that was removed from the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, words on his Top Ten Art Shows of the year (yea for Sarah Sze) as well as the dubious lower 10, in which commentors ask, what no Dan Colen?
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Done →
“Today’s a very sad day,” Senator John McCain said. What was making him sad was something many people had been waiting for a long time: the Senate, on Saturday, passed a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the law that forces gay and lesbian members of the military to lead secret lives…But even if one confines the discussion to the D.A.D.T. vote, there may be a grain of truth in McCain’s “sad...
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Done →
“Today’s a very sad day,” Senator John McCain said. What was making him sad was something many people had been waiting for a long time: the Senate, on Saturday, passed a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the law that forces gay and lesbian members of the military to lead secret lives…But even if one confines the discussion to the D.A.D.T. vote, there may be a grain of truth in McCain’s “sad...
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Blu Says MOCA's Removal of His Mural Amounts to... →
MOCA director calls the fiasco a communication mishap that would have offended the nearby community, reactions are mixed. Corporate whore and street art appropriator Shepard Fairey proves once again, that his stupidity is matched only by his lack of talent; runs to Deitch’s defense.
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Which City Is The Center of America's... →
“New York may still lead in talking, but the essence of architecture is building. And great builders and thinkers can be found all over, the Web’s distance-collapsing influence making an architect or an architectural dreamer in LA, Chicago, or even Des Moines as important as his or her counterpart on Park Avenue. Hey, New York—start spreadin’ the news: It’s a...
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