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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Jet Set Saturdays: Maya Lin at Pace Wildenstein

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Installation view of Maya Lin at Pace Wildenstein via Maya Lin Studio. With such little time this afternoon it was a tough call between Cy Twombly’s “Eight Sculptures” at Gagosian on Madison and Maya Lin’s “Three Ways Of Looking At The Earth” at Pace Wildenstein on 545 West 22nd Street. Despite our high regard for [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Margo Victor’s The Rotten Riotous West at The Company

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Still from The Rotten Riotous West, a film by Margo Victor. We are privilged this morning to have a sneak preview of the premier of The Rotten Riotous West, a film by Margo Victor that will enjoy its Los Angeles premier tonight at The Company (946 Yale Street, LA, CA 90012). The occasion will also [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Takashi Murakami meets Hollywood, Adbusters campiagn for media democracy, Turner Prize at Tate Britain deemed tame

Friday, October 9, 2009

Image credit. Welcome to Friday’s Hairy Eyeball, a weekly round up of art news and culture posts from the www. Adbusters continues their campaign for media democracy with a series of ‘subvertisements’ aimed at disrupting the promotion of over-consumption and attacking the legitimacy of advertising. The campaign, which AdBusters are hoping to pay to air [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: The Eames Lounge Chair and the AK47

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman. For this weeks Hump Day Cool Finger we thought that instead of lambasting hybrid art projects and lamenting the dissolution of culture into a smattering of commercial trinkets – a theme which any new readers are no doubt unfamiliar with – we would instead offer a tonic, a refreshing [...]

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Tom Scicluna and Shane Aslan Selzer in Buildup at Dimensions Variable

Monday, October 5, 2009

Dimensions Variable. Image courtesy of Tom Scicluna. Around a month ago a new exhibition space called Dimensions Variable opened in Miami’s Design District (171 NE 38th Street). Founded by Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Frances Trombly and Wendy Wischer, whose art studios it fronts, the space’s mission is to characterize the essence of ‘the project’, [...]

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The Sunday Video: Paul McCarthy – Painter (1995)

Sunday, October 4, 2009

This week’s Sunday Video is a performance piece by Paul McCarthy. Did anyone else get lumbered with one of those chocolate Santa butt-plugs? Ours has been back and forth between the fridge and the freezer so many times in the last two years it probably looks as though it was left in a dumpster after [...]

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