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Resisting the temptation to do a Halloween special, here are a bunch of largely unfrightening links. Enjoy: As the art world’s most eminent reflect on where they stand in the Power 100 in Art Review, Hyperallergic completes the picture with the Powerless 20. Funny it is too. Carsten Höller’s show at the New Museum sound …
October 31, 2011
As a novel set in an art gallery, Old Masters might be of some interest to readers of this blog. Viennese readers especially, since it is set in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Thomas Bernhard narrows things down even further by setting the entire thing in the vicinity of a single painting: White-bearded Man by Tintoretto. But …
October 28, 2011
Quick art quiz question: who said in 2009: “I spend 90% of my energy on bloggingâ€? It wasn’t Jonathan Jones, who posts daily on art for the Guardian. Nor was it a professional US art blogger from Hyperallergic, C-Monster, Art Fag City or ArtInfo. It was in fact Ai Weiwei, just named Art Review’s most powerful …
October 26, 2011
In solidarity with occupy Sotheby’s, etc, criticismism has been occupying GoogleReader to bring you another bunch of links: It could always be worse. So suggests Der Spiegel who report on the publication of a database of Nazi appproved art. Being dubious about the Museum of Everything, I liked this Jonathan Griffin piece which raises questions. …
October 24, 2011
Amidst the bright, shiny things one could take home from Frieze to put on your wall was this: a structure of mud, daring collectors to take it back to their bright, shiny homes. Hand made from adobe bricks and modelled on an original in the highlands of Peru, this sculpture brought the outside world into …
October 21, 2011
Post-Frieze comedown fodder: Too much has been written about the fair this year, I know. But this sharp analysis by critic JJ Charlesworth makes a lot of sense. Non-native English speakers only need to know 1500 words and ‘globish‘ is one of them. The Guardian also reports from a talk at Frieze. If you’re not …
October 17, 2011
As a structuralist who wrote about wrestling, wine and fashion, it can seem Roland Barthes is one of the less abstruse theorists you might come across in an artwork. And now Nick Davies has added a layer of either difficulty or simplicity by translating the Frenchman’s 1975 work, The Pleasure of the Text, into mobile …
October 14, 2011
More time has elapsed. More links have accrued. Thank you, as ever, for reading… RIP Steve Jobs. Very sad, of course, but as Art Info point out he was hardly Che Guevara. Although as Slate recall, he did once drop acid. Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective have captured the flowering of a utopian protest movement in Wall …
October 10, 2011
If you perchance see a hammer and sickle in this abstract Frank Stella sculpture, don’t bother paging doctor Rorschach. It is impossible not to see. Certainly, the rest of the dynamic caged forms here recall early Soviet art. If nothing else, they resemble parts of Vladimir Tatlin’s famous tower. But they are also post industrial. …
October 7, 2011
Weekend shenanigans have led to a late and somewhat hasty collection of links this week. But nonetheless I hope you enjoy: There are plenty of laughs here as Hennessy ‘Art Thoughtz’ Youngman makes an offline appearance at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Pictures are well worth 1,000 words as this Wells Tower flash fiction, alongside …
October 3, 2011