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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 86: Levi Strauss | Magical Art Rumpus | Doug Aitken
Levi’s sponsors Doug Aitken’s magical art rumpus Once again proving that art and fashion are never strange bed fellows, Levi’s has sponsored Doug Aitken’s ambitious, nomadic happening Station to Station. Very sexy fashion like ad for the art project here. I first came across the project by accident researching some 1960’s Tom Brokaw footage of Joan Didion, which landed me on their site. They’ve compiled an impressive web site with videos past and present of artists, musicians, curators and general…
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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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