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Repository 110: Back from Basel | Highlights and Collecting Strategies
I just did the math: between Art Basel Miami Beach, private collections, and satellite fairs I have viewed close to 1,576 pieces of art in the past 48 hours. I think I can consider myself an endurance aesthete, because even as I wandered the last fair with sand in my shoes I could have continued for another 48 hours. Out of all the work, I would say 99% was not so great. As Sir Norman Rosenthal said before his talk…
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Repository 94: Precurser to Marina Abromovic | Buddhist Priestess Kissing Cobra
After seeing a black snake at my front door this past summer in full stand up mode, as if he was going to ring the door bell, I’ve been slightly attune to all things snake. It was just a silly garter snake, but it was standing up for goodness sake! I believe in the mythology of snakes, that there is simply something there beyond words. So after viewing an old DVD of Joseph Campbell today where there was an amazing…
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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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