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  • Found Objects 29/01/13

    Here’s criticismism’s weekly selection of art links, gathered for your enjoyment: A Belgian living in Mexico with a nice line in political interventions around the world: Modern Art Notes podcast scores an interview with Francis Alÿs Mark Brown from the Guardian takes a look at the new Kurt Schwitters retrospective at Tate Britain, another reappraisal …

    January 29, 2013
  • Found Objects 21/01/13

    Welcome back to the week you’ve just lived through, but this time with premium quality links: Saddest thing in the world: when an outlaw street artist is fully embraced by the mainstream. Cameron and Branson must really have it in for Ben Eine. This story is weird and a bit one sided. But it’s always …

    January 21, 2013
  • Weiwei-isms by Ai Weiwei

    Books come in all shapes and sizes, but perhaps the most potent format is both small and black. The collected quotes of Ai Weiwei should have come in nothing less. Editor Larry Warsh has trawled through some 74 interviews with the Chinese artist to bring readers in the West a meditation on his life and …

    January 19, 2013
  • Found Objects 14/01/13

    Top stories of the week include a portrait of a future queen and the new single by a former one. Read on… There was much derision heaped upon Kate Middleton’s first officical portrait. My favourite was this example by Mark Hudson in the Telegraph Bowie records an album in secret. But hold on, wasn’t this …

    January 14, 2013
  • Found Objects 07/01/13

    Well, here’s your regular pick of the best art links around: Art Observed report on a fine looking Sol LeWitt show at Marian Goodman gallery in Paris Contemporary Art Daily also have pictures from what seems like a cracking show: Judith Bernstein at the New Museum ArtInfo carry a short film about Russian art world …

    January 7, 2013
  • Found Objects 03/12/12

    Ignoring the three hour old news about the Turner Prize, here are a week’s worth of high quality links: You live by the market, you die by the market. Business Week reports that Damien Hirst has officially jumped the shark Guest on this week’s Modern Art Podcast is Sophie Calle. Find out where she plans …

    December 3, 2012
  • Found Objects 05/11/12

    Sad week, as the extent of a hurricane’s destruction becomes apparent: But Chelsea gallerists are a resilient breed. So discovers the New York Times as Roberta Smith assesses damage caused by Sandy Art is no longer cool, according to Jacob Willer. This could be the best thing to happen to art since, well, since it …

    November 5, 2012
  • Jeff Koons, Puppy (1995)

    Even as he maintains his emolient sales pitch for rich customers, it is worth bearing in mind the real world catastophe at which Jeff Koons’ puppy was at the centre. This piece of inoffensive topiary is as cuddly as any 43ft high sculpture could ever be. Containing 60,000 plants it is said to be a …

    November 3, 2012
  • Found Objects 31/10/12

    Storms have pushed art somewhat off the agenda this week. Imagine what Sandy might have done to a Frieze tent, anyway, I digress: Hyperallergic art blog catered for all your climate news needs, with a collection of photos compiled from social media by Hrag Vartanian. On the Guardian’s Northerner blog, Liverpudlian Kenn Taylor takes the …

    October 31, 2012
  • Tracey Emin’s tip for very young artists

    Between the condoms by the notorious bed to the film about abortion, childlessness has emerged as a major theme in the work of Tracey Emin. As if she has traded creative fecundity for motherhood, her prolific art has more in common with masturbation rather than procreation. She sketches the former activity at length. In a …

    October 24, 2012