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Monthly Archives: November 2009

IT’S ABOUT TIME and Space: Space as Medium at MAM

Monday, November 30, 2009

(Foreground) Lynda Benglis Untitled, ca. 19687 x 50 x 59 inches, Pigmented polyurethane foam Courtesy of the artist and Cheim & Read, New York (right) William Anastasi, One gallon high-gloss enamel paint, poured, 1966, Dimensions variable, Enamel paint, Courtesy of the artist. (center) Tom Burr, Coffee Table (Smoked), 2002, 2 parts: (1) 42 x 63 [...]

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The Sunday Video: Jonas Mekas

Sunday, November 29, 2009

This weeks Sunday Video serves to announce To New York With Love, the forthcoming show of lithographs by experimental film maker, Jonas Mekas at Bas Fisher Invitational, an artist run alternative exhibition space currently managed by Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain, Kathryn Marks, and Agatha Wara. To New York With Love, in association with James Fuentes [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Jeff Koons at Gagosian Beverly Hills

Saturday, November 28, 2009

© Jeff Koons. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo by Robert McKeever. Of all the recent openings in Los Angeles, the Jeff Koons show is the one most often brought up in conversation at the pool house in Westchester or over oysters at Fraice. To put it bluntly, it’s edgy to dislike Jeff Koons. Unlike USC alum [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Saatchi Reality TV Show, Pope welcomes artists to Vatican, Whitney hires Artforum sernior editor as curator

Friday, November 27, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI welcomes more than 250 artists at the Vatican. Image credit. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball; a reluctant glance over the shoulder mitigating the ever present fear of falling forwards. Despite a lack of news regarding Bravo’s version of Deitch’s ArtStar, Charles Saatchi’s reality show, ‘The School of Saatchi,’ in which young artists will compete [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: Terence Koh Chuck Taylor Converse All Stars

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Chuck Taylor All Star Converse shoe designed by Terence Koh. On Monday a smoothed-out, white-on-white-on-white version of Converse’s signature Chuck Taylor All Star shoe designed by Beijing born, Canadian raised, New York based artist/designer Terence Koh was launched as part of Converse’s 1HUND(RED) project – a year-long initiative to celebrate the their 100th anniversary, artistic [...]

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Black Monday

Monday, November 23, 2009

Futurist photocollage of Marinetti by Coletti. Image credit. Before Art Basel Miami Beach bulldozes into town threatening the mellow sanctity of our lives we are making this November 23rd a public holiday from art. Conscious of past fascist regimes that were more concerned with the maintenance of control than with disputable notions of faith or [...]

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