Entries Tagged 'READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP' ↓

whose Pal?

Read Forbes on PayPal exercising its extra-legal muscle…

Charles Saatchi vents: it’s all about having a “good eye”, apparently…

in The Guardian, here.

John Baldessari prints money in downtown New York

As reported here in Gawker. Photo by Bill Orcutt courtesy of John Baldessari and the Marian Goodman Gallery.

euphemism of the day: “land fill”

I Like Pavilions

See why at ArtInfo

lost in translation

Kounellis via China: “In 1967, the term Arte Povera was put forward by Italian critic Germano Celant to describe the styles and concepts of current young Italian artists. Art Povera means that artists choose industrial wastes, everyday natural material or other often neglected materials as representing media to highlight the contrast of their weight and structure and to praise the meaning of form itself. In the pedigree of Art Povera, Kounellis prefers to and emphasizes on the expansibility of everyday substantial energy. Wherever these substances are from, they are directly turned into substances carrying artistic concepts. They are expanding around human. They are separated from their physical attributes to become the vehicles for communication with human spirit in public domain only after they are in connection with society, human, history and culture.”

Art Guff

Michael Govan, Director of LACMA, says: “…Lichtenstein’s dot paintings can be seen much more deeply for their beautiful coloristic and painterly qualities.” Context: an exhibition of Lichtenstein and Monet’s Rouen Cathedral paintings…

holes burning in the 1% pockets

Reading the latest sales news on ArtDaily is a form of…

arte povera never was

… and never will be, apparently. See the brouhaha here at ArtDaily More here at Triple Candie.

Albert Speer builds ghost town – in China, of course

Story here, in Der Spiegel