From Gawker comes word of a scurrilous but unintentionally hilarious volume called The Liberal Clause, which employs the typical rightist wing-nut agenda of conflating Obama with Stalin, Mao and Rev. Wright, questions his place of birth, shows him using a teleprompter and bowing – to the Chinese, not the Saudis. It attempts a satirical Animal [...]
Warhol self-portrait, 1964, was twice rejected by the foundation’s authentication board. ARTINFO, October 24, 2010, 2:28 pm by Jason Edward Kaufman Warhol Foundation Lawyers Quash Antitrust Lawsuit The biggest legal brawl in the art world is coming to a crashing halt NEW YORK – The closely watched federal lawsuit in which a private collector is [...]
Artnet News Oct. 19, 2010 SWEDISH BRILLOS ARE BUNK: WARHOL AUTHENTICATION BOARD It’s one of the most famous arguments in all of art theory: Arthur Danto’s claim that Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box sculptures represent the “end of art,” because they don’t have any distinguishing features — it’s just art because the artist says it is. [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2010 Massive Chevron Ad Campaign Derailed, Media Slapstick Follows News outlets, citizens duped by web of deceit – but whose? A day-long comedy of errors began Monday morning when the Yes Men, supported by Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, pre-empted Chevron’s enormous new “We Agree” ad campaign with a [...]
BY Steven Scorpio Size counts in the art of fabric and multimedia artist Nick Cave, whose “sound suits” stand some seven feet tall. Also color—a dazzling palette of candy-like hues—and materials—a thrift store tornado of secondhand clothing, cloth, feathers, glitter, beads, baubles and all other manner of found objects. Gorgeous and playful, nearly 40 of [...]
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