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Tag Archives: art world elite
SAVE £40 ON FRIEZE TICKETS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
… 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
NEO-THOREAU
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Discussions of economics and making a living from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854): SELLING AND AVOIDING THE NECESSITY OF SELLING “Not long since, a strolling…
TOP TEN THINGS TO SEE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2015
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BY GUEST CRITIC PP BORBORYGMUS, CONTEMPORARY ART CORRESPONDENT AT LARGE FOR TEMPORARY CON ART MAGAZINE 1. THE FRIEZE PARTY It’s fabulous because hardly anybody can…
“MAIN REASONS WHY THE ART WORLD NAUSEATES ME”
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Thanks to my colleague Dany Louise for pointing out this great article by Sola Agustsson at Alternet: Why the Contemporary Art World Is Insufferable, Corrupted…
WHEN CRITICS ATTACK
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MOMA COMPLETELY BJÖRKS UP I’ve often compared the art world to the mafia, with their mutual general secrecy, their deliberate cultivation of mystique, and their…
ROMANTICISM, BEAUTY, MONEY
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THREE QUOTES FROM BRUNO MUNARI, ‘DESIGN AS ART’, 1966 (ON SUBJECTS THAT STILL HAVEN’T BEEN SORTED OUT BY THE ART WORLD FIFTY YEARS LATER) “It…
INTERVIEW AT ART MAP LONDON
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Find out– among other things– the benefits of saying FUCK YOU to art world shitheels, how uncool starving in an attic is, and why you…
BAD WRITING WORKSHOP
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WITH ART-AGENDA Courtesy of one Nickolas Calabrese and the Art-agenda [sic] mailing list from the reliable nonsense mongers at e-flux. There appears to be little…
