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Repository 92: Ovation | Boob Tube | America’s Only Art Network
Ovation TV was bought several years ago by an investor group and it’s renovations are slowly and surely hatching. The “new” arts network is touting all kinds of original programming and partnerships that they hope inspire the artist and art appreciator in all of us. From their web site, the proverbial mission statement: “Ovation is America’s only arts network, whose mission is to connect the world to all forms of art and artistic expression. A cause-based media company, Ovation’s brand…
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Repository 64: Hotel as Hotbed for Creativity
Image of a reproduction of artist Richard Hutten’s installation “Llayers Llove Hotel Room”, photo by Catherine Haley Epstein. Last weekend on a trip to Vancouver, BC I had the unexpected pleasure of seeing the exhibit Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The ambitious show on the theme of hotel as pre-eminent architectural and social structure was separated into four main themes of travel, design, the social and culture. I travel often, and find great respite in…
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Repository 42: An Exploration of Painting & Performance
A couple years back I remember watching an interview of James Franco and Marina Abromovic, where Mr. Franco asked about her evolution as an artist. The interview took place in her apartment where she was serving him her “special” desert. I couldn’t help but cringe when she declared that the studio was an awful place, where no artist should be, where art is life and life is art. Hmmm. Dismissing painting as if it is a first step to a…
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