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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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| Friday, January 15 |
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Group Show in Spotlight
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Participating artists: Marc Quinn, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Sigmar Polke, Keith Haring, Neo Rauch
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International Top News
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Taaffe’s elaborate images are the slow product of wide-ranging meditations on the interrelation of generic forms and images in art, nature, architecture, and archaeology, filtered through a critical and dynamic relation to the history of abstract painting, both Occidental and Oriental. Drawing has always played an important role in his art. (Artdaily, January 15, 2010)
Miso is blowing up. In a very good way. On the eve her new show, The Cold Returns, this Los Angeles artist throws some answers back in our face about getting in trouble, why she doesn’t have a Facebook or MySpace, and how her work is “pathological.” (Juxtapoz, January 15, 2010)
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NY Arts Winter 2010 Editorial Preview
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Microscopic Vision
The inclination toward nothingness is unrelenting. There is a point at which sculpture, from antiquity for example, usually made of stone and left exposed to the elements is reclaimed as material, its social and cultural meaning worn away as representation fades. This is when sculpture is in a pure material state, and exposes a kind of universal truth.
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Sometimes the planets’ line-up and the exploration of one’s artistic vision are a completely joyful, even miraculous, experience. The series, Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother, had serendipitous beginnings.
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Where the Wild Things Are
Leah Oates: What is your background, and when did you know you would be an artist?
Jacob Hashimoto: Most of my childhood was spent in Walla Walla, a small silent town of farms and colleges in dusty southeastern Washington.
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The exhibition, Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, co-presented by the MCA and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, explores Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present. It offers an unprecedented look at the artistic production of a country where cultural change has often been defined by the persistence of the past, revealing a deep sense of originality and vitality on the part of numerous artists whose work spans all media.
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Charlie White’s work explores the overlap of the liminal space of adolescence and American consumer culture, and implies that this world cuts to the cultural core of a society shaped by capitalist greed.
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Recommended Web Site of the Week
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The Burning Windmill: Art Ramble Blog – A blog that gathers things that bring goosebumps, things that bring shivers, things that burn into your brain, burnt so that they can be thought about again in a dark time to bring some happiness. www.burningwindmill.com/category/artblog/
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Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International
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— London Art Fair, January 13-17, London, U.K.
— FADA Los Angeles Art Show, January 20-24, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. — Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 28-31, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. — Arte Fiera, January 29-30, Bologna, Italy — CIRCA Puerto Rico, January 29-February 1, Puerto Rico
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