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Special Edition: SF
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
5/20/13
READY, SET, ART FAIR!
Highlights from artMRKT and ArtPadSF, by Christina Catherine Martinez
This week, San Francisco will be treated to not one, but two contemporary art fairs. ArtMRKT San Francisco and ArtPadSF will both take place May 16 - 19th, and it behooves an art lover to visit both if they want to get a compressed but authentic feel for the art scene in the Bay Area. A good rule of thumb is to take in artMRKT during the day and party down with ArtPadSF at night.
This w... [more]
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Special Edition: SF
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
5/15/13
READY, SET, ART FAIR!
Highlights from artMRKT and ArtPadSF, by Christina Catherine Martinez
This week, San Francisco will be treated to not one, but two contemporary art fairs. ArtMRKT San Francisco and ArtPadSF will both take place May 16 - 19th, and it behooves an art lover to visit both if they want to get a compressed but authentic feel for the art scene in the Bay Area. A good rule of thumb is to take in artMRKT during the day and party down with ArtPadSF at night.
This w... [more]
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Special Edition: Frieze New York #2
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
5/13/13
THE AUDIENCE, REMIXED
Haroon Mirza at Frieze Sounds, by Ryan Wong
Haroon Mirza has made his reputation as an artist of the remix. He structures the unglamorous beeps and buzzes of antiquated audio technology into beats and melodies. But he also appreciates those machines for their sculptural qualities, synchronizing their sounds with lights and moving pieces – as if Kraftwerk were building a Rube Goldberg machine. Part music, part sculpture, part architectural intervention, Mirza... [more]
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Special Edition: Frieze New York #1
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
5/9/13
ART AND LITERATURE
Lydia Davis at Frieze Talks prompts James Thompson to compare the visual and the literary
The art fair as cultural event is pretty well established now. It makes sense to use the pretext of the weird art supermarket that forms the body of the fair as an excuse for a wider programme; it adds interest and tempers the slightly distasteful frenzy that makes it so difficult to actually see the art everyone's here for.
As part of this year's Frieze New York we have the... [more]
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Special Edition: Gallery Weekend Berlin
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
4/27/13
FEEL INVITED: Gallery Weekend Berlin 2013
By Melissa King
Springtime feeling is rife in Berlin, and it seems the art world has caught on to the general mood of merriment that has stricken the city’s sun-deprived locals. With emails overfilling inboxes, reading material hitting the presses, and champagne stocks emerging from the deep freezes, the 2013 edition of Gallery Weekend promises to be a veritable free-for-all of art, artists, and, if all goes to plan, articulations of some truly... [more]
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Special Edition: Art Brussels
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
4/17/13
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: ART BRUSSELS 2013
By Andrea Alessi
Planning a trip to art fairs – plural because, let’s face it, where one art fair goes, others are sure to follow – is an exercise in strategic thinking. Tactical decisions balance hopes, dreams, and opportunity costs, and every choice you make could lead you to find, or miss, the best deal, most worthwhile elbow-greasing, sickest party, most enlightening roundtable, or tastiest canapé.
The simultaneity of fairs and events within a... [more]
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Collector's Catalogue: Vol. 3 Issue 3
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
4/11/13
The Museum of Everything
Charlotte Jansen interviews James Brett about his unusual collection
The Museum of Everything’s founder James Brett is perhaps an incongruous addition to the Collector’s Catalogue – since he frowns at the idea of being labeled a collector.
Collector, hoarder, or fanatic – what is so compelling about the Museum’s activity is their novel approach to promoting and presenting artists.
Brett, somewhat of a talismanic leader in this – almo... [more]
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Collector's Catalogue: Vol. 3 Issue 2
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
4/1/13
A Brief and Incomplete History of Stolen, Lost, and Destroyed Works of Art
Natalie Hegert outlines a lost history of art
A work of art that’s been stolen attains a tantalizing aura of mystery, a legendary status that grows with each hour of absence. A destroyed or a lost work of art can sometimes attain that level of mythos, as long as we are aware of its significance before it’s disappeared. But most art, in fact, most of the art that has ever been made throughout history,... [more]
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Collector's Catalogue: Vol. 3 Issue 1
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
3/25/13
Contemporary Copyright
Joel Kunnen takes a look at the advantages of alternative copyright in the digital age
How we use images and information is changing, therefore, copyright is changing. The image has migrated away from an object of economic value towards one of heightened cultural capital. Social media has developed in such a way that sharing information has become synonymous with sharing images. Infinite copies of images act as citations to shared opinions and... [more]
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Special Edition: Armory Week #3
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
3/18/13
FROM THE VERNISSAGE FLOOR: Armory Week in 48 Hours
By Charlie Schultz
In the last forty-eight hours I’ve walked through six fairs, looked over the presentations of more than 350 galleries, and seen the work of more than 1000 artists. If pressed to put an adjective to the experience, I’d choose enthusiastic, because when you attend these sorts of events in the first few days of the run everyone is pretty hopeful. Everyone smiles, and if you can keep your tradeshow cynicism at... [more]
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Special Edition: Armory Week #2
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
3/18/13
ARMORY WEEK ARTISTS IN FOCUS
Graphene and Glitter: Shane Hope's Molecular Realities, by Collin Sundt.
Shane Hope makes invisible worlds visible. Leaders in the world of digital art have called his work “the warmest use of digital technology out there.” This week the New York artist’s uniquely fabricated sculptures, digital paintings, and holographic prints will be the feature of Ed Winkleman’s booth at the Armory Show.
If one could wield a brush on a molecular level, the outcome may rese... [more]
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Special Edition: Armory Week #1
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
3/4/13
UPPING THE ANTE: ARMORY ARTS WEEK 2013
An overview of Armory Week fairs, with Lori Zimmer.
With the arrival of Armory Week, last year’s experiment of Armory versus Frieze is rearing its ugly head, and settling itself into reality. The splash that Frieze made last year on the enchanted (Roosevelt) Island of art lured satellite fairs Pulse and NADA to jump ship from March to May, but Scope, Fountain and the Armory’s little sister, VOLTA, remain Armory Week fixtures. To up their game, bo... [more]
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Special Edition: ARCOmadrid 2013
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
2/12/13
THE ELECTRIC STREETS OF MADRID
ARCO by day, Madrid by night, with Clare Sheppard.
Madrid, an inland empire of electric streets paved with diversion and vibrancy where, as Hemingway remarked, “you don’t go to bed until you’ve killed the night”, and where the following day, in the hue of the city’s post-party drowsiness, Madridleños will persevere to slaughter the day. The Spanish capital has always exuded a doggedness to endure, not just to rue and spite the turbulence which often confronts it, b... [more]
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Special Edition: Art Rotterdam
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
2/6/13
ON ESCAPE ROUTES AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Art Rotterdam New Art, by Andrea Alessi
I’ve had a soft spot for Art Rotterdam ever since the first time I attended. Pausing to drink a coffee (Illy no doubt) and consolidate notes on what I’d so far seen, I looked out one of the former Holland America Line Cruise Terminal’s giant windows to have my tired gaze met by the spectacular Erasmus Bridge. Visitors, this is my advice to you: no matter how disoriented, claustrophobic, or weary you get coll... [more]
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Special Edition: India Art Fair
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
2/4/13
MUMBAI TO NEW DELHI
At India Art Fair 2013, Mumbai galleries are well represented. Deepika Sorabjee takes a look.
12/12/12 saw India’s first art biennale open in Kochi. Spectacular artworks in incredible spaces came up amid chaos and uncertainty. Quite unlike the slick efficiency that we associate with the now well established India Art Fair. It’s nice to have both, the chaos of creativity in the inception of a biennale, and the efficiency of private enterprise cementing a successful art fair in its fifth edi... [more]
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Special Edition: Art Los Angeles Contemporary #2
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
1/26/13
SOME SHOWS WE THINK YOU SHOULD SEE
A smattering of Los Angeles galleries, with Andrew Berardini
Perhaps the art fair brought you to LA, or maybe you live here but are looking for a little international flavor from the coterie of foreign art dealers caravanning in art from far-flung lands. There is a certain, dynamic allure to any assembly, party, fair.
But in the end, nobody really loves an art fair. There's the art fairs in the Grand Palais in Paris, whose beautiful glass dome certai... [more]
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Special Edition: Art Los Angeles Contemporary #1
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
1/26/13
NOT SO QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
A conversation with Art Los Angeles Contemporary director, Tim Fleming. By Arely Villegas
What is fair in Los Angeles, but the amalgam of worlds and communities that thrive and crash histories under almost perfect weather? We interviewed Tim Fleming, director of Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair, who talks about the fair’s fourth year.
What is your take on the move of other fairs installing programming west in the past two years, including P... [more]
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A Year in Poster Quotes: Blurbing 2012
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
1/8/13
Art critics are never quite shilled in the same way as critics for other avenues of culture. Yes, our reviews likely get listed on CVs and not read, adding some vague imprimatur to an artist's career that might help move some product, but we're never exploited in quite the same way, as say, the movie critic, whose thoughtful well-composed reviews (okay not always) get diced into a few words to grace a promotional poster. Oh, if only some art critic (someone from October would be nice, or Texte Zu... [more]
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2012 in Review: Art in China in the Year of the Dragon
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
1/7/13
Perusing the last year’s contributions to ArtSlant China some clear themes come across, and provide us with a snapshot of the art scenes in Beijing, Hong Kong, and elsewhere in China. We see the prevalence of artist communities, collectives and relational art; the rise of performance work; blockbuster sculpture and installation exhibitions; and changing patterns in curatorial strategies. Here’s a look back at some of the most thought-provoking reviews from ArtSlant writers Edward Sanderson and Robi... [more]
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A Year in Art / Movie Poster Quotes: Blurbing 2012
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
12/31/12
Art critics are never quite shilled in the same way as critics for other avenues of culture. Yes, our reviews likely get listed on CVs and not read, adding some vague imprimatur to an artist's career that might help move some product, but we're never exploited in quite the same way, as say, the movie critic, whose thoughtful well-composed reviews (okay not always) get diced into a few words to grace a promotional poster. Oh, if only some art critic (someone from October would be nice, or Te... [more]
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Old Masters and New Practices: The Best of 2012
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
12/31/12
2012 was an eventful and exciting year on the Indian art calendar, from Mumbai to Delhi, Kolkata to Bangalore. Here’s ArtSlant’s favourites from 2012, spanning from old masters to new media.
Performance
Yoko Ono’s first ever exhibition in India opened at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Yoko Ono may be a relic from times long forgotten but her appeal to what is humane within us is still stirring. Her ideas of "peace", "beauty" and "healing the world through women's power" might be appeali... [more]
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Special Edition: Art|Basel Miami Beach #3
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
12/13/12
VERNISSAGE BARRAGE
by Nathaniel Sandler
Art Basel: a beautiful hodgepodge of disheveled gallery assistants and even more disheveled millionaires. For those who have never been, Art Basel Miami Beach is one of the largest annual contemporary art fairs in the world. The main event and the countless satellite fairs around the city attract the rich and the hip from all over, who are in a constant incestuous competition to feel like they’re hanging out with one another. It’s a cultured... [more]
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Special Edition: Art|Basel Miami Beach #2
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
12/13/12
ALTERNATIVE MOONS: Experiences on the Outer Fringe
by Natalie Hegert
Imagine Art Basel Miami Beach is a planet. It is after all, the big centralizing force to which all other early December Miami fairs, events, and exhibitions compare themselves. Those are usually referred to as satellite fairs: orbiting moons. Some of these moons are quite large, and orbit in close proximity to the Basel planet, while others are mere specks out on the fringe. Some of these moons have quite erratic, elliptical orbits, spinning i... [more]
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Special Edition: Art|Basel Miami Beach #1
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
12/13/12
DOING IT RIGHT: ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
by Joel Kuennen
Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) is the mother of American art fairs (you know this by now). Celebrating a decade this year, ABMB has, from the beginning, been a city-wide event. Every year, a new satellite fair/festival/happening/event is added to the already art-packed weekend and yet it seems Miami has an art tolerance on par with your average Baseler’s liver. ABMB became the destination par excellence in the art world, not only a... [more]
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ArtSlant Prize 2012 - Fringe Frontier
by ArtSlant Team
Veronica Bruce, Timothy Gaewsky, Steven Vasquez Lopez, Susan Meyer at Aqua Art Miami
December 6th, 2012 - December 9th, 2012
Posted
12/9/12
Veronica Bruce - 1st Place, ArtSlant Prize 2012
I met Ms. Bruce in a studio that looks more like a construction site than an artist’s studio, in one of Chicago’s many industrial lofts. Her sculptures rose vertically from the wooden floor, dotting the space as piles of material rounded the interior. Bruce’s process is founded in her training as a painter but has since expanded off the wall and into the exhibition space. She retains an acute understanding of composition and color while exp... [more]
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Collector's Catalogue: Vol. 2 Issue 2
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
12/3/12
Overlapping Histories: Curatorial Practices in San Francisco
Christina Catherine Martinez talks with Margaretta Lovell and Andrew McClintock
Yes, thanks to the Philistines of Cyberspace the word CURATOR is being stretched to the very limits of semantic significance, but rather than join the chorus of affronted cultural elites pointing fingers at every blogger or boutique-owner who dares to don that hallowed mantle, I thought it might be more productive to speak with two perso... [more]
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Collector's Catalogue: Vol. 2 Issue 1
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
11/26/12
Curator: A Slippery Word...
Natalie Hegert talks with artist and curator Darren Jones
What does it mean to be a curator? Of late the term has taken on a few new meanings. It’s become a buzzword in the realms of blogging, fashion, design, interior decorating, Pinteresting, Tumblr-ing, publishing, thrift-ing, and all other sorts of realms where selecting, choosing, filtering, or procuring sundry images or objects and placing them in some order, by theme, by color, by mood or mat... [more]
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Special Edition: Artissima 19
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
11/7/12
ARTISSIMA'S BACK TO THE FUTURE
by Jared Baxter
Particularly for those in the art world who can recall the rains that marked the closing of last year's Artissima with a city-wide flood watch, the title of this year's cultural initiative, It's not the end of the world, ought to cement the art fair's reputation for dogged optimism. To a large extent, this outlook is earned – at a time when instability in the art market has made other events of its ilk ever more desperate affairs, Art... [more]
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Special Edition: Art Toronto
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
10/29/12
WHY TORONTO?
by David Yu
If ever asked to conjure up a list of international art fairs I would bet Art Toronto is pretty low on that list (that’s even if the fair makes it on the list at all). With such heavy hitting art fairs like Frieze, Hong Kong International Art Fair, The Armory Show, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami, it’s obvious why Art Toronto could be overlooked on an international art market platform. However, Art Toronto does fill a necessary hole for Canadian... [more]
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Special Edition: FIAC #2
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
10/29/12
A PARIS DERIVE: hors les murs at FIAC
by Natalie Hegert
There are a couple of ways to approach art fairs: one could subscribe to a strict itinerary of events, talks, exhibitions, and parties, planning out every moment in an attempt to experience as much, meet as many people, drink as many free drinks and see as much art as possible during that relatively brief moment in a city when every art space, gallery, and arts organization seems to go into hyperdrive. Or, one could simp... [more]
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