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Repository 168 | Copyright, Appropriation, Stealing and Radical Democracy
It’s been over a year and a half that I have tried to find a willing bookstore for my coloring book – a swan song to a book I wrote and could not afford the copyright, a red flag to artists to stop working in isolation, an homage to the shoulders of giants on which we stand. While a handful have said the book was too special and to try museum bookstores, the majority of artist friendly, curious book shops…
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Repository 161: Art History Book as Checkbook
“Art should make us feel more clearly and more intelligently, it should give us coherent sensations we otherwise would not have had…that is what market culture is killing.” – Robert Hughes I just received the November issue of ArtForum – heavy, and full of art that looks better in the pages of a magazine than any real slice of life or contemplation. Much like a dress looking better in a photograph of a-102 pound model in the streets of…
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Repository 139: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose | Sturtevant (1930-2014)
‘it is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything’. – Oscar Wilde The American artist Elaine Sturtevant died two weeks ago in Paris, France – an event never to be copied, never to be reproduced and always to remain a unique and unprecedented event. Sturtevant spent her time as an artist famously re-presenting famous works of art by famous (mostly) male artists. She…
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Repository 96: Word for Word | Text Artists Tee Off in Dueling Museum Retrospectives
This month launches the retrospective of two artists, both enamored with words. Robert Indiana’s “Love” paintings launched a thousand “Love” products in the late 60’s, while Christopher Wool’s au courant fuck you paintings invoke the hater in all of us. The former has his very first retrospective at the Whitney through January, and the latter is at the Guggenheim also through January. Robert Indiana is of Pop Art fame – he launched his career in the thick of the Lichtenstein/Warhol…
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