Art Fag City: The Highlights

Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967. Neon with glass tubing suspension frame 4′ 11″ x4′ 7″ x 2″. Private Collection

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• Gawker Doesn’t Review Younger Than Jesus at The New Museum.  Art trends revealed!

• Alex Balk on the Aura of Reproduction.  White Noise applied to the Mona Lisa

• The Rematerialization of Art According to Holy Fire.  Why shows inspired by the art market don’t promise interesting results.

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The L Magazine. Highlights include:

• 8 Fallacies about Contemporary Art.
  Afraid to talk about art? Intimidated? Feel like you’ll look silly? Let Paddy help.

• When Does Fan Art Become Real Art. Everybody’s making something, all the time, everywhere. Who gets to call it art?

• The Quest for the New Is Getting Old Ezra Pound used to say, “Make it new.” Maybe we’d all be better off if he’d said, “Make it good.”