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”;…
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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…
MORE MACHINE METONYMY MANAGEMENT
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An interesting summary in MIT Technology Review of some recent research done on creativity in historical art, creativity here being taken to mean novelty in…
ROMANCING THE STONERS
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OR: PEOPLE WHO THROW STONES SHOULDN’T LIVE IN GOVERNMENT HOUSES The Louvre is shortly to open a new facility in Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean…
SUBMIT YOUR DAUBINGS TO NEWS CORP, PLEBS
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The deadline for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is pressing upon us, like a paunchy red-trousered sextagenarian taking liberties with our bottoms when he squeezes far…
PART OF THE FURNITURE
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“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” Pablo Picasso. WRONG, Picasso, you pathetic loser. You don’t…
WHERE’S THAT DONKEY?
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This week it was revealed that British MPs have recently spent £250,000 of tax payers’ money on commissioning paintings of themselves. Not just the usual…
THE GIF ECONOMY
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Do yourself a favour and spend some time with Scorpion Dagger (AKA James Kerr) and his animated GIFs made from Rennaisance paintings. http://scorpiondagger.tumblr.com
PROBLEM SOLVED
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Evidently Herbert Draper (1863-1920) was an artist dedicated to solving one of the age-old problems of mankind, i.e. the impossibility of a man getting his…
“CRAPPY FINE ART”
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A thought-provoking and informative article inspired by the recent $5.7 million sale of a most definitely crappy act of plagiarism by a technically capable but…
DANISH ROYALTY: A HORROR STORY
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This horrifically kitsch and perfectly ghastly painting was commissioned by the Danish royal family from the artist Thomas Kluge in the past few years and…
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE GIANT GREEN PHALLUSES…
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… and we didn’t speak out because we didn’t paint giant green phalluses. Last week there was another seizure of (very mildly) subversive art in…
THE ONLY ART PRIZE THAT MATTERS
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The American artist who made this prizewinning work is 37 years old (nearly too old to be an “emerging artist”!) and he’s based in Keithville,…
IMAGINARY ARTISTS IV: HALLWARD
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In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in…
IMAGINARY ARTISTS II: VAN GOGH
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“As far as I can judge, I am not actually mentally ill.” Vincent Van Gogh, shortly after cutting off part of his ear and giving it…
