The brilliance of Chris Ofili's work deserves a better exhibition than this,
says Richard Dorment ...
In the build-up to the Saatchi Gallery's new exhibition, The Empire Strikes
Back: Indian Art Today, which opens on January 29, there has been much
hopeful talk about how it will revive the fortunes of the market for
contemporary Indian art. ...
No elephant dung, no glitter, no textured, collaged surfaces. It's all a bit of a shock. But do we like Ofili's new work?I'd seen some of Chris Ofili's new work in the lavish new Rizzoli book he has helped put together. Even so, after walking past so many greatest hits and old friends in the galleries at London's Tate Britain, where his latest career survey opens to the public tomorrow, I got a jolt when I walked into the final pair of rooms, filled with his most recent work. In the first, the p...
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Published 26-Jan-10
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
I dessa kalla vintertider kan man behöva någonting som värmer en, något riktigt hett.
Och saker kan ju vara hett på många olika sätt. Något som är riktigt stekvarmt är pälsen, eftersom den är het på en hel del olika plan.
Pälshandeln är ett otroligt hett, alltså kontroversiellt ämne. Förr i tiden var pälshandeln en helt okej och väldigt lukrativ business, men förr i tiden var det också helt okej att klassa homosexualitet som en sjukdom. Jag tycker precis som PETA, pälshandeln är fruktansvärd.
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Published 26-Jan-10
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Kandinsky Exhibition Helps Set New Attendance Record for 2009
Record-breaking attendance at the museum has been recorded for 2009,
the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark building designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright. ...
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Published 25-Jan-10
Source: www.guggenheim.org
The Premiums is an annual exhibition of contemporary work by second year students studying at the Royal Academy Schools. ...
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Published 15-Jan-10
Source: www.royalacademy.org.uk
Slate magazine reports on the new Jay-Z video for On to the Next One, in which the hip-hop artist returns to his shtick of making visual and lyrical references to contemporary art. This time it’s Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God. In the highly slick film by director Sam Brown, a replica of the diamond-encrusted skull has black paint slowly doused over it.
Jay-Z knows his art: he tweets about hanging with Gagosian, rhymes about Warhol and Basquiat and has featured works by Murakami in previous...
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Published 15-Jan-10
Source: www.artreview.com
By Oliver Basciano
For those raised on a diet of contemporary art and all the louche hubbub that surrounds it, entering the London Art Fair is like stepping into a malfunctioning time machine that only ever delivers you back to Cork Street circa the early twentieth century. A quick twirl of the main hall and concentration drifts away from the nicest of nice paintings on sale to the fashions, genteel gossip and guffawing of gallery staff born exclusively of Britain’s public school system, direct...
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Published 14-Jan-10
Source: www.artreview.com
Jeffrey Deitch, via Los Angeles Times.
One aspect of Jeffrey Deitch’s startling appointment to the director’s post at L.A. MoCA that’s undeniably positive: it’s shining a harsh light on the role played by glitz, commercialism, business savvy and showmanship in today’s art museum–not to mention the contemporary art world as a whole. The appointment of a commercial gallery director to this top Museum post has put the issue front-and-center, fueling a much-needed public debate that’s taking place i...
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Published 14-Jan-10
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Ryan Trecartin, P.opular S.ky (section ish), 2009, HD video, 40 minutes. Image via: Elizabeth Dee Gallery
I’m psyched! Tonight, Art Fag City pairs with Earl Dax to host Ryan Trecartin’s screening of P.opular S.ky at The Delancey Lounge and the evening’s going to be HOT! Part of Dax’s larger event, PUSSY FAGGOT, brings together queer performance and culture to create nothing short of awesomeness. Trecartin’s screening will run 9-10, the Happy Hour portion of the evening (h...
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Published 14-Jan-10
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