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Repository 154: New Museum | Landlord for Artists or True Visionary
Almost half a year ago I caught wind of the New Museum launching an incubator, New, Inc. – which in business speak is a place where you coddle and launch profitable businesses – the hotter it is in the oven, the hotter it will be in the marketplace. The New Museum has an awesome and radical history. Its founding director Marcia Tucker was expelled in a way from the traditional museum scene (the Whitney), and she pushed the boundaries, tore…
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Repository 54: David Salle Starts New Job as Art Critic
Image of David Salle courtesy of Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris I just finished flipping through this month’s Town & Country and Architectural Digest magazines, the former for the astrology (really), and the latter for the real estate porn. David Salle the painter was prominently featured in both. Not his paintings, but his opinion and reviews of art shows in T&C and his house for sale in AD. David Salle has an illustrious career that includes a Guggenheim fellowship for stage…
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