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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Bruce High Quality Foundation University

Friday, January 8, 2010

Inside the Bruce High Quality Foundation University exhibition. Via Susan Inglett and ArtObserved. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball; graciously out staying its welcome like a well decorated Christmas tree. This week we’d like to have everyone focus again on the Bruce High Quality Foundation (B.H.Q.F), the anonymous New York based artist collective who garnered massive kudos for [...]

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The Cocks of Wynwood: How the fight for credit over legitimized murals is turning us on to less laborious fodder.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Uncredited cock sculpture outside Dorsch Gallery, one of a number in the area. Miami is home to a lot of street art. This week the Biscayne Times played host to its own messy drama concerning the credit it mistakenly usurped from Primary Flight in its coverage of Deitch and Goldman’s graffiti initiative, ‘Wynwood Walls.’ The [...]

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Really Really REALLY: The Reach of Realism at MOCA NOMI

Monday, January 4, 2010

Xaviera Simmons, Breedlove (Mason) (2009). Detail view. The Reach of Realism, curated by Ruba Katrib at MOCA NOMI isn’t asking the perennial question “What makes Art real?” We’ve heard those questions from the Pictures Generation Artists – is the image mediated or authentic, appropriated or original, a presence or a representation? This show turns that [...]

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The Sunday Video: What English Sounds Like to Foreigners

Sunday, January 3, 2010

This week’s Sunday Video is courtesy of Dossier. Dossier’s Savannah Palace writers: “Some background info from Savonarola: This is Adriano Celentano. He defined this 1972 track as “the seed of Italian rap”. He used to host a hyper-popular Lottery-related show in the 1980s in which he famously got most of the country to switch off [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Happy New Year?

Friday, January 1, 2010

Image credit. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball; looking forward for [a] change. A selection of prophetic links: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/12/faces-to-watch-in-2010-art.html http://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Art-2010-Wall-Calendar/dp/160237256X https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/87/richard_bruce_anderson.html http://www.burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm10_theme.html https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/87/philosophy-zero-point.html http://www.pnj.com/article/20100101/ENTERTAINMENT/1010305 https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/87/silver-bullet-big-ideas.html https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/87/coming_insurrection.html http://www.kansas.com/entertainment/all/story/1119151.html Upcoming fairs: http://www.artpalmbeach.com/exhibitors.html http://www.mia-artfair.com/exhibitors.html http://artlosangelesfair.com/exhibitors

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