Amy Goodwin

Dieter Blazer

 

 

 

 

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Emergency Compliment

Megs Senk

 

 

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The Hillary Clinton Guide to Being a Powerful Woman When You’re Surrounded By Men link

 

 

Andy Warhol

Tunafish Disaster 

While auction houses are forbidden from explicitly sharing certain details prior to the sale of a lot, such as the reserve price, a good deal of information gets signaled to a favored collector—particularly if interests align. This was certainly the case for Gagosian and Mugrabi, who were told by Sotheby’s not to worry about the most valuable of Froehlich’s three Warhols, Mrs. McCarthy and Mrs. Brown (Tunafish Disaster), a 1963 painting—of two suburban housewives whose deaths from food poisoning had briefly been the subject of tabloid notoriety—with an estimate of £3.5 million to £4.5 million. Sotheby’s already had interest in it, Mugrabi told Gagosian: “The Tunafish Disaster is pretty covered. That’s going to sell.”

- The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry Gagosian, Eric Konigsberg

 

 

"But for me, the single most limiting problem in contemporary criticism is the meaningless academic language which leaves everything ambiguous and prevents all but a few from making it past the first paragraph. So when many of the responses to Sandler’s piece start off with “the notion of dualism,” or 20th century French philosophy, or The History of Criticism, it’s not exactly a mystery that this conversation isn’t getting anywhere." - Whitney Kimball, Art Fag City

 

 

Elyse Graham

 

 

 

 

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Anti-Anxiety Objects: Design in the Age of Xanax

 

Ostrich Pillow, a fully encasing pillow that allows a nap anywhere

 

Carsten Höller, Giant Psycho Tank

 

Alannah Weston, Silence Room

 

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Secret Ingredient for Success NYTimes

 

 

 

 

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David Byrne

Mobius Structure of Relationships

 

 

 

Morally Repugnant

 

 

 

Yes Means No

 

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Dryden Goodwin: Poised on Nowness.com.

 

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

 

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Jay DeFeo

 

 

 

 

 

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Official royal portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge

Paul Emsley

 

and the Ecco Homo restoration

Cecilia Gimenez

 

"But the real reason for critical timidity is that everyone is scared of the young, and art has allied itself with youth. Who wants to be seen as an oldie who just doesn't get what the kids are down with?" -Jonathan Jones in the Guardian

 

“Artists will emerge as the new business leaders” 

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A yearlong celebration of remarkable women who have changed

how we see the world. http://thereconstructionists.org/

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Werner Knaupp

 

 

 

 

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David Ope

 

 

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Kent Rogowski

Everything that I wish I could be

 

 

 

 

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Sunday Dialogue: What Is That Art Worth?

NYTimes

 

Alex Dipple

dots and full stops

 

 

 

 

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new years tree burn

now on to 2013