- There is a diamond hashtag ring. You can get one at Bloomingdale’s. [Techcrunch]
- Brian Boucher joins Artnet, the world’s only 24-hour art news website. Brace yourselves for more up-to-the-minute breaking art news. [artnet News]
- A new concert opera by Mohican Brent Michael Davids tells the story of the sale of Manhattan to the Dutch, as seen from a Native American perspective. [The New York Times]
- Philadelphia’s Vox Populi Gallery is now accepting applications for guest shows, for artists living outside of New York. [Vox Populi]
- A Canadian woman gave birth in Hawaii, while on vacation, and was slapped with a one million dollar bill. Her insurance cited “pre-existing conditions”. The insurance business sure is ugly, but so too is hospital billing practice. What the Canadian news isn’t covering is that hospitals routinely overcharge, leaving patients to fight the bills. [CTV News]
- There are galleries in airports now? Kenny Schachter’s diary chronicling the New York auctions is like the Baer Faxt in a personal, long form essay. Juicy and written entirely for insiders. We like it. [Artnews]
- Jerry Saltz complains that people are trying to police art and his opinions in a new piece dubbed, “When Did the Art World Get So Conservative?”. This isn’t so much an investigation of the art world as a whole, though, as a collection of examples where people took issue with his opinions. [Vulture]
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What did you think of Saltz’ gibe at AFC? I for one condemn the actions of Blackwater in Iraq. It would not surprise me if this “artist” is related to the Amway people.
“In a post headlined “Richard Prince Sucks,” blogger Paddy Johnson opined that my Prince article “really annoyed me” (now, there’s some good art criticism) because I’d found “Prince’s blatant sexism worth championing.” I was championing sexism? Funny, I thought I was trying to make a case for the work (and in doing so, compared him several times to Nabokov’s pedophile).”
I don’t understand what he’s trying to criticize. Is it supposed to be that the combination of “Richard Prince Sucks” and “really annoyed me” is dumb? Why would anybody think the title and a fraction of a quote represents any of the article? Is it that he thinks one of those choices is dumb? Why not specify? Or does he think I mis-understood his article: he wasn’t championing sexism because he compared Prince to Nabokov’s pedophile. The comparison itself is a case for the work. I mean, none of this even makes sense.
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