It Amazes Me What Expat Artists Are Doing in China!

Studio'space, works' scale, low rent.
Combined with a thriving artistic community...
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Aspen Leadership Institute, and its Program In the Arts!

To be further researched...
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The Buzz of Business, and The Business of Art!

I do find correlations in the art of running a business,
and the business of making art...
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Another 36 Hours in New York City!

So close, still, so far away from me...
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On A Not So, Regrettably, Up Beat Note, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst.

Their art prices down by 50%.
It will get back up in a heart beat; or over the next decade...
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A Point of View Of a Handful of Opinion Makers!

Rather too small of a survey, for such headline...
Being an artist now...
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Art, New York, New York, Yellow Cab, January, Art!

Roughly 5oo cabs, and only 3 artists!!! What's going on there???
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Wow! Wow! Carmen Herrera, 94

Ranked one of the best exhibits of 2009 - "The Observer"
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Salvador Dali First? Or Vicent Vezzolli?

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Exhibit through January 17, 2010.
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Artists That Are Creating A Buzz: Shephard Fairey

Shepard Fairey was born Frank Shepard Fairey on February 15, 1970, in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1989, while an illustration student at Rhode Island School of Design, he first created the original Andre the Giant has a Posse sticker campaign and "liberated" his first billboard with the image.

While still in school, Fairey started his first business venture, Alternate Graphics, to showcase his emerging design and silkscreen printing talents. He created stickers, t-shirts, skateboards, and posters, which were all available via black and white mail order catalogs that he distributed. In 1994, Helen Stickler started working on a documentary film, Andre the Giant Has a Posse, that focused on Fairey and the growing phenomenon of his subversive stickers and posters. The film played at Sundance Film Festival in 1997.

In the mid-90s, Fairey created a small sister brand, Subliminal Projects, with Blaize Blouin, and released several skateboard and poster designs using this moniker. He also created a skateboard video, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) that showcased the small group of skateboarders that he sponsored through Alternate Graphics.

In 1996, Fairey moved from Providence, RI, to San Diego, CA where he continued to work in design, branding and marketing. In 1999, Fairey formed the firm BLK/MRKT with Dave Kinsey and Phillip De Wolff, which specialized in guerilla marketing. Clients included Pepsi, Hasbro and Netscape. During this time, Fairey met his future wife, Amanda Ayala, who began working with him. They married in December of 2001 in Charleston, SC.

In 2001, the BLK/MRKT offices were moved from San Diego to Los Angeles and expanded to include a small art gallery. In 2003, Fairey split from his business partners and along with his wife, Amanda, founded design agency Studio Number One and art gallery Subliminal Projects. Studio Number One produced the cover work for the Black Eyed Peas' album Monkey Business and the poster for the film Walk the Line. Fairey has also designed the covers for The Smashing Pumpkins' album Zeitgeist, Flogging Molly's CD/DVD Whiskey on a Sunday, Led Zeppelin’s compilation Mothership and Anthrax's The Greater Of Two Evils.

In 2004, Fairey teamed up with long time friend Roger Gastman to create Swindle Magazine.
In 2006, Fairey released a comprehensive, hard cover monograph, Supply and Demand, that documents much of his personal and professional design work. In 2009, the book was released in a special edition entitled OBEY: Supply & Demand - The Art of Shepard Fairey - 20th Anniversary Edition.

In 2008, Fairey became widely known in mainstream media for independently creating the iconic “Hope” portrait of Barack Obama. He was contacted by the official Obama campaign and began working with them, distributing a staggering 300,000 stickers and 500,000 posters during the election campaign, funding his grassroots electioneering through poster and fine art sales. In January 2009, the “Hope” image was acquired by The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and became part of the permanent collection.

Fairey also created the portrait of Barack Obama that TIME Magazine used as the cover art for its 2008 Person of the Year issue. The portrait is also used for the cover of Esquire Magazine's February 2009 issue. His influence, particularly with Obama's presidential campaign, contributed to him being named a Person of the Year 2008 by GQ Magazine.

In February 2009, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston opened the first museum survey of Shepard Fairey’s work featuring over 80 works that trace the artist’s career over 20 years.

Fairey’s work is also included in permanent collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Fairey currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two daughters, Vivienne and Madeline.

And From South of the Border, here comes Gabriel Orozco, Again!

A 20 year retrospective of his career at the prestigious MOMA New York,
that's what it is!
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Startling News!!! No visual artist in the president's committee on the arts and humanities!!!!

I'm stunned by the news!!!
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The Show Goes On! First Guggenheim Museum's Annual Arts Awards!

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It Seems that Ayn Rand Is Making a Strong Comeback!

An intellectual, and artist, in her own right, her ideas and convoluted life, still impact our minds, and imaginations.
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Art Theft???

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The 2009 Winners of McArthur "Genius Grants"

Indeed, a gathering of super minds!
Long life for ingenuity!
Click here, to learn who are this year winners.

Meanwhile in Zurich, Director Roman Polanski is Arrested

Roman Polanski is caught in a true international meddley:
USA, France, Switzerland, Germany, England.
The incident unveils like one of his movies screenplays.
It's definetly bringing a whole lot of attention and will increase a renewed interested in watching his films.
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Planet Art - Inhotin - Must see Brazil

In the middle of tropical, lush vegetation: art.
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Jeff Koons: Curator @ NYC's New Museum: February 2010

It will be well worthy going to New York, at the height of the Winter...
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Bank of America hits Museum Circuit, Through 2012

Although missing on showing contemporary artworks in its collection, it's setting a trend other corporations are following. Several cash stripped museums in the US, are eagerly welcoming their collaboration.
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The Academic State of Art Programs Across the US

Perhaps now is time to become a self-taught, independently creative artist, regardless of academic's dictum.
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New Endowment (NEA) Chairman: Rocco Landesman

A new champion for the arts in the USA.
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If Roberta Smith Says So, She Might Be Right...

The X Initiative and the avant-guard art in the city.
Read her article here.
Here for X Initiative website.

Shepard Fairey on Rolling Stone's August Cover!

Enshrines Obama!
See it here.

Jane Jacob Saved for Us Parts of Manthattan, as We Know It Today!

Anthony Flints' "Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder, and transformed the American city"
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Os Gemeos, "The Twins", in the city.

Roberta Smith, NYT, comments on their Bowery's mural, which was dedicated yesterday to the late Dash Snow.
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Who's Nick McDonell?

A writer!
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Annie Leibovitz. The photographer on the spot light.

Art Capital Group, the perpetrator.
Artists beware!
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Shepard Fairey: The "DJ" radio talk!

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Culture Clash, Implications in Society, Politics, Art - Europe

Brilliant and descriptive work:
"Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West"
by Christopher Caldwell.

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Yes! New York is a Big Stage!

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Merce Cunningham, Another Legend Dies.

Dance, and art's cross pollination.
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More About Dash Snow

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Do You Want to Make an Assessment of the Current State of The Arts?

Maybe that corner of the art world, Los Angeles, is indicative of the larger art scene.
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Do You Know Any Real Billionaire Art Collector? This Is a Partial List!

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Jeff Koons on Michael Jackson, Just Days Before His Untimely Death - July 2nd, 2009

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As a Corollary to the Art World, Here Comes Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood

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Click here for NYT article
And here for related article

For Artists, Too? A Cautionary Tale From the Fashion's World!

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Books and Interviews: Art Market 2009

Art and the Credit Crunch - Claire Walsh interviews art market expert, James Goodwin

Art price and Value: Contemporary Art and the Market - Franziska Nori, Piroschnka Dossi

The Price of Everything... Perspectives on the Art Market - Martin Braathen

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Christie's embraces Apples' I-Phone

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Dash Snow's Dead

Learn what happened here.

Extra! Extra! Shepard Fairey Again!

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Art Over The Arkansas River - Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: public art champions in Colorado's art project!
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Anselm Keifer on Paris' Opera Stage

See here the set designs he put together!

Have You Heard the Latest About Graffitti Artists, Shepard Fairey?

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Ai Weiweis Video at Los Angeles Moca

Ai Weiweis, continues to get the spotlight, here, and there!
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"Luck, is preparation meeting opportunity"

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Damien Hirst's bike to Armstrong

Soon to be auctioned, for charity.
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Dias & Riedweg 1rst Show in new York City

A Brazilian-Swiss duo, making to the big apple!
Curated by Gabriela Rangel, director of visual arts at the Americas Society, NY.
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Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, MOCA-GA

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Moca-GA Expansion Gallery
The Tula Center
Atlanta, GA 30309

Available to artists and curators for exhibitions.
$1,000.00 a week!

Unprecedented news!

Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery in London Opens New Exhibit: American Abstracts

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Kiki Smith Wins McDowel Artist Colony's Medal

I've tried for the past years to attend McDowell Artist Residence.
Haven't get there yet, though...
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Governor"s Island, e.g. "Statue of Liberty's Island" has lot's of art on its ground!

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Banksy in the West Village, New York City

He was there almost one year ago, October 2008.
Some of you may remember hearing about his out of the box exhibit.
View here what he showed!

An Icon From Mumbay, Tyeb Mehta, Dies

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PS1, NYC, Keeps Evolving!

PS1, Long Island City, NY, appoints new Chairman: Agnes Gund
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Jeff Koons Exhibit at London's Serpentine Gallery

Jeff Koonz, is again making his rounds in Europe, Summer 2009.
Last year he exhibited in Paris, at The Versailles Palace, which created a bit of controversy.
Now his show in London, is his first ever.
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