People can talk about post-modernism forever. Corinna Kirsch has a smart post describing Modernism and Postmodernism as frenemies. [Here is a Fantasy]
Artists are behind Occupy Wall Street. Ben Davis provides the background (with mention of the Bloombergville protest in July, a similar activist campaign I had completely forgotten about. [ArtInfo]
Tom Otterness will never live down the fact that he once shot a dog. [GalleristNY]
Book stores are hard to keep afloat even when you’re Gagosian. After only two years, the gallery shuts its shop down. [Artinfo]
More than 10,000 items at Walters Art Museum (a third of its collection) can now be seen online. Let’s all flock to the site. [Baltimore Sun]
I’ve only had one brief conversation about Tom Otterness irl. It ended like this, “wasn’t he that idiot that bought and shot a dog?” Also, somebody needs to start exploiting the available images from thewalters.org!
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I’ve only had one brief conversation about Tom Otterness irl. It ended like this, “wasn’t he that idiot that bought and shot a dog?” Also, somebody needs to start exploiting the available images from thewalters.org!
Deja vu re: Otterness. The last time I saw him mentioned was in another of your links posts, and it was basically the same story.
Also why are you making me relive the horror of bearforce 1?
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