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The Art Cops: Art School Confidential

June 28, 2011 by
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On his Paris Biennial website, Jean-Baptiste Farkas claims over one trillion new artworks have been made since October 2009. And the clock keeps ticking: 1,685,740 new artworks per day.  Click here for counter. What are we going to do with all this art? Why is it being made? Who is making it? In the fourth installment of the world's first-and-only art criticism, animated cartoon, John Perreault's art cops investigate the art glut and its source. Sort of.       NEVER MISS AN ARTOPIA ESSAY AGAIN! FOR AN … [Read more...]

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Gustav Metzger: The Remix

June 6, 2011 by
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  Gustav Metzger: Historic Photograph No.1: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 19-28, 1943, 1995/2009/2011     Metzger Rescued from the Footnotes of Art History   Gustav Metzger's first U.S. exhibition ever, the thought-provoking "Historic Photographs," is now at the New Museum (235 Bowery, NYC, to July 3, 2011). All 12 sculptures, forming a set originally made in 1995-96, are exhibited together for the first time.   Ironically, until now we have known these sculptures -- which are "about" photography as … [Read more...]

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The Art Cops: Return from L.A. — The Writing on the Wall

May 24, 2011 by
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        MOCA-LA             Banksy            Graffiti Art     KEITH HARING       Jeffrey Deitch                              Street Art        Eli Broad                Art in the Streets      Related Artopia … [Read more...]

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Richard Serra, Drawing

May 9, 2011 by

                                                                        After Minimalism   Richard Serra was never burdened with the Minimalist strictures offered up by Donald Judd (or Dan Flavin or that old devil Ad Reinhardt) and certainly not by the lesser lights of Minimalism, who, let's face it, did not even have beauty, strength, or expression on their … [Read more...]

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The Art Cops Return: Fluxus Must Die!

April 26, 2011 by

Links to more thoughts on Fluxus in Artopia:                    Fluxus Redux               Ken Friedman      Ben Patterson … [Read more...]

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Ben Patterson Scores: A Modest Proposal

April 20, 2011 by

    Ben Patterson, String Music, 1960. Getty Research Institute.  Benjamin Patterson's Variations for Double Bass, 1961. The concert was part of the exhibition Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us November 6, 2010 - January 23, 2011 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. By all accounts Ben Patterson is a Fluxus pioneer. Even George Maciunas [ma-Chew-nis], the Andre Breton of Fluxus, places him at the beginnings of Fluxus.  See here one of  Maciunas' obsessive … [Read more...]

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Rirkrit Tiravanija: Fear Eats the Soul

April 4, 2011 by

       Talking About Relational Aesthetics by John Perreault 2011       What Is Relational Aesthetics?   Formulated by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud to explain the work of his favored artists, Relational Aesthetics is difficult to pin down. Maybe it's like jazz. When Louis Armstrong was asked what jazz was, he answered, "If you have to ask, you'll never know." But Armstrong was not a French intellectual steeped, stewed or pickled in "theory."   In 1996, Bourriaud encapsuled his flight of fancy … [Read more...]

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Glenn Ligon: Words Apart* PLUS ARTOPIA QUIZ!

March 21, 2011 by

 FLASH! SEE BELOW FOR FIRST ARTOPIA CONTEST!                                                 Words or Music? If you assume poetry and art are far apart, think again. If you think poetry is made of words and art not, well, as the 19th century joke-phrase had it, you have another think coming. think? … [Read more...]

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Banksy Loses Bid for Oscar!

February 28, 2011 by

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Steven Siegel: The Sculptor from Planet X

February 14, 2011 by

SCULPTURE Steven Siegel ART  Starn Twins  ROBERT SMITHSON global warming GARBAGE Matthew Barney Black Mountain College BURGESS SHALE Marlborough Chelsea  STEPHEN JAY GOULD Penland School BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE Barbara Gladstone  Twin Peaks Landfill PACIFIC GARBAGE VORTEX    Unsolicited Photo Gains Artist Blue-Chip Gallery! Steven Siegel: Biography. 2008-10. Partial view; photo-composite What makes Steven Siegel's site-specific newspaper sculptures so special? What is so wonderful about his … [Read more...]

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