SAVE £40 ON FRIEZE TICKETS
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… every single year, guaranteed… BY NOT GOING. I’m severely late on this one, because Frieze Art Fair [sic] was last October and at the…
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“ARTIFICIAL, ESPERANTO ART” AND ITS DISCONTENTS
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Costumes by Vahad Poladian. Photo by Hiroko Masuike, The New York Times Some gems from Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond by John Maizels. Regular…
PIGGIES
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When I and a few enlightened colleagues started talking about the art world and money in about 2009, hardly anybody was interested and we were…
OCCASIONALLY THE VOICES ARE RIGHT
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A wee update on this story about a woman who attacked a fellow visitor to Art Basel Miami Beach last December, while onlookers interpreted the…
ZOMBIE PROFESSIONALISM
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An interesting article by Daniel S. Palmer about what ArtNews calls the “hyper-professionalization” of some artists. I’d go further and call it something like “jobification”;…
REPULSIVE
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“Young collectors cocktails” At PULSE (sic… they always style it like that) Miami Beach 2016 this December, there will be a “private preview brunch”, followed…
AWARD YOURSELF
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“Everyone’s a winner, baby, that’s the truth.” (Henrik Ibsen Hot Chocolate). Henrik Ibsen painted by Henrik Olrik, 1879. From the book Creators: From Chaucer and…
CHARLIE HEBDON’T
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Occasionally it seems there might be some kind of counter-performance art organisation, one that actively does everything it can to bring performance art into disrepute.…
ABSTRACT PROPAGANDA
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I was recently reminded by this post at Open Culture that Abstract Expressionist painting and exponents of it such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock…
MULTIPLE SLASHES ARE SOUGHT AFTER
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“I can’t believe they’re talking about this shit with a straight face” of the week goes to a recent article on Artsy (aforementioned) on ‘The…
“GLORIFIED SHOPPING MALLS”
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Some magnificent verbal kamikaze quotes from Australian gallerist Evan Hughes, on the occasion of closing down the business founded by his father and then run…
HAPPENING EVERYWHERE
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About five years ago when I and a few colleagues started talking about the (mostly really shitty) economics and realpolitik of being an artist who…
SEVERE CORRECTION
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… of the art market. What were you thinking of, you dirty wee puppy? I’ll deal with you later. No, according to a University of…
NOBLESSE OBLIGE
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? “Unfortunately we have no budget to pay fees or expenses.” a-n the artists information company have just published their draft recommendations and guidance on…
A MESSAGE TO ARTISTS IN 2016
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By Martin J. Walker, 1968. Just like half the salaried people who work in arts organisations, Career Suicide has been on leave since the start…
REAL ART WORLD MORE SATIRICAL THAN SATIRE AGAIN
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This is what you get when rolling around on the floor, self-harming and generally making a tit of yourself become normalised as art practices: a…
DEPRESSING BUT PREDICTABLE SURVEY OF THE WEEK
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(Image via the sadly long-defunct http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk ) Findings have just been published from a national survey about the working lives of cultural and creative workers…
PSY-CHOTIC BREAK
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… is one of the possible reasons why all the people appear to have lost control over basic motor skills as well as their damn…
RACHMAN STYLE*
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Ehhhhhh… nasty landlord. (* Link for those too young and/or too not from London to get this reference.) South Korean pop star PSY, of Gangnam…
9 MORE FUN FACTS ABOUT MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU
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BONUS fun fact: Marina’s head is actually very loosely balanced on her neck and it could fall off at any time! Here are nine more…
