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For the Record

I Was Wrong to Defend Marina Abramovic

by Reid Singer on August 6, 2014
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When critics argued that Marina Abramovic exploited her performers back in 2011, I defended her. Now the Marina Abramovic Institute is seeking unpaid volunteers. I take it back.

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Lucy Lippard on How to Be an Art Critic

by Corinna Kirsch on May 19, 2014
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For the best straight talk on art criticism, look back 50 years. In her 1966 essay “After a Fashion: The Group Show,” art critic and curator Lucy Lippard wrote an unintentional manifesto on what makes a good art critic.

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Who’s the Real Con Here?

by Corinna Kirsch on April 23, 2014
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Gawker deliberately represents painter Pei-Shen Qian as the con artist mastermind of the Knoedler scandal, despite dozens of contradictory news reports.

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