January 2011
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Q&A Brian Kenny →
stuartsandford:
Brian Kenny was born 1982 in Heidelburg (Germany) on an American military base. While growing up, he traveled extensively throughout the US with his Army family. As a teenager, Brian was a competitive gymnast. After high school, he went to Oberlin Conservatory to study voice, but…
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Conrad Ventur @ MoMA →
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Hoist on His Own Petard →
Jeff Koons, the king of appropriation, is suing, saying his intellectual property rights have been violated. I think he’s on shaky ground on this one. It seems to me that when you start making art out of something that’s commonly found in the public domain, you’re going to have a difficult time maintaining that it’s your intellectual property.
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Milt Rogovin dies →
I remember years ago Weston Naef, then the Curator of Photographs at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, telling me he was acquiring work by Milt Rogovin, and thinking “Who?” It seemed a misplaced use of resources, time, energy, and the Getty’s prestige. But Weston was up to something. He was the only curator at the Getty who could actually take one of his artists out to lunch....
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Shepard Fairey settles w AP →
Seems like a relatively equitable solution to the mutual lawsuits, tho the financial terms were not disclosed. It’s not even clear who paid whom (as in, which party had greater responsibility). Lost in the shuffle of attendant publicity, fame, and earnings is Mannie Garcia, who took the original photo for the AP. Fairey maintains that he has never personally profited from the sales of the...
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A Film by Ryan McGinley →
“I knew it was going to be wild when I signed on,” says Carolyn Murphy, who stars in Ryan McGinley’s exclusive short film Entrance Romance (it felt like a kiss). “Next thing I know, my manager is telling me that they’re going to break glass on my head and my leading man’s a dog. I’m like, ‘That’s it?’ I was so sure I’d have to take my clothes off,” she...
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Alice Neel & Portraiture
There’s a new biography out on the painter Alice Neel. Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty, by Phoebe Hoban, was reviewed in yesterday’s NY Times Book Review by Deborah Solomon. Writing about how Hoban’s research on the influential portrait painter included details of her family background and early life, Solomon, almost as an aside, raises the issue of why artists make...
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Francesca Woodman →
Found this blog that included an excerpt of Arthur Danto’s 2004 article on Francesca Woodman for THE NATION. I’ve been talking about her work a bit lately. I’ve often thought that her most amazing, but least-known work was a series of Caryatids she did on blue print paper. Very rare, I know the Metropolitan Museum has one, but because of the light sensitivity of the paper, these...