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give us back the russians
Attention all aliens from extragalactic nebula outside Earth’s Solar System (third planet from our sun, in the Galaxy called the Milky Way). Consider this a human plea for what was at one time, righteously ours, and to many people, fondly remembered. We would like to have our Russians back please. The ones that were on… (read more)
mining for understanding
Leave it to another art form, this time the theatre, to pierce through the fog of contemporary painting. Art can’t seem to do that on its own. It must be the only thing in the world that can’t (not counting Marmite, which, for the good of mankind, should remain mysterious). Lee Hall’s “The Pitmen Painters”… (read more)
a world of one’s own
Something that Jeffrey Deitch said in the book, Collecting Contemporary (by Adam Lindemann) I thought was a very useful idea for understanding contemporary art. Deitch is one of New York’s art dealers, with a background in finance as well as art. Although he doesn’t come out and say it, his perspective is one where art… (read more)