December 5, 2011 // 1 Comments //

Okay, well maybe a little stuff enters into our first writer’s AdobeAirstream gift guide. Such as (above): A mahogany bicycle down to the rims by a ninth-generation Japanese shipwright who also made a pretty nifty mahogany …

December 2, 2011 // Comments //

Art Basel Miami Beach has 206 exhibitors this year. I am not there but have spent the better part of the morning browsing the website to see what the major galleries are exhibiting. (Mind the opulence …

November 28, 2011 // Comments //

The Art Newspaper reported Thursday that a one-day private conference in Florence, Italy in October convened bankers, collectors, curators and academics for discussions on the future of art and finance – and China’s clout derived clear …

November 18, 2011 // Comments //

Opening tomorrow in New York at CUE Art Foundation, a show of work by artist Sarah Canright, curated by Nic Nicosia. Nic Nicosia writes of the curatorial assignment: “I was to select an artist (preferably an …

November 16, 2011 // 1 Comments //

The Clyfford Still Museum opens in Denver Friday and becomes, along with Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, a museum destination with the lion’s share of holdings in a single artist’s work. While using percentages to …

November 15, 2011 // Comments //

Update: A state judge in New York issued a temporary restraining order that would allow protesters back into the park. However, reports indicate protesters have already set up some sort of makeshift camp on Sixth Avenue …

November 14, 2011 // Comments //

Roberta Smith writing in The New York Times Friday about Sherrie Levine: “Mayhem”, at New York’s Whitney Museum through January 29, inquired whether the show, like an “art boutique full of fastidious, expensive-looking objects lightly dusted with …

November 11, 2011 // Comments //

Laura Dern in Enlightened (HBO)  is my latest favest TV heroine – through episode 3 of season 1, “Someone Else’s Life,” as far as I’ve gotten. It goes without saying that where goes Dern, go memories …

November 7, 2011 // Comments //

New letters of inquiry (LOI) are due to the next and second phase of ArtPlaceAmerica grants due on November 15th (a week from tomorrow.) So it bears to pull out some things that have generated funding …

October 31, 2011 // 1 Comments //

Transmedia is one of those new words (birthdate: 2007) you may not have heard of: Here’s the wiki. And it may not be bedtime but transmedia storytelling is the multisyllabic hot phrase your kids might learn about before you …