December 2009
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I was drunk when I bought the Andy Warhol
Hugh Grant: ‘I was drunk when I bought Elizabeth Taylor painting that made £11m profit’
The Daily Mail, 13 December 2009 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1235452/Hugh-Grant-I-drunk-I-bought-Elizabeth-Taylor-painting-11m-profit.html
AW: At last, a satisfactory explaination for the continued price and popularity of Andy Warhol.
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Ridiculous exhibition titles of the week
BAROCK - Art, Science, Faith and Technology in Contemporary Age
Museum Madre, Naples, 13 December 2009 – 5 April 2010 http://www.museomadre.it/mostre_show.cfm?id=73
That’s all Folks ! The endless clash between Reason and Destiny
Stadshallen, Bruges, 11 December 2009 – 17 January 2010 http://thatsallfolks.aeroplastics.net/
AW: While the ‘Barock’ pun has been used since at least the 1970s...
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Sewellisms #7: Sexism
Brian Sewell used his recent Evening Standard column to discuss the ‘art books of the year’. As you’d expect from the subject, Sewell devotes most of the article to summing up some of the major contributions, adding a little critical appraisal or appreciation here and there, avoiding references to male body parts, and making only the briefest allusion to sex and masturbation. My only reservation...
Recoding Jackson Pollock
Art Historian, Henry Adams and his wife have recently discovered a hidden message in Jackson Pollock’s painting, Mural, 1943. “I sat puzzling over a reproduction of Mural after breakfast one morning with Marianne, herself an art historian. She suddenly said she could make out the letters S-O-N in blackish paint in the upper right area of the mural. Then she realized JACKSON ran across the entire...
HR Wank
‘we have just launched a project to develop a competency model with 360 degree feedback’
Anonymous internal memo.
AW: I can’t give any further references for this quote as it was an internal memo, but I thought it should be posted as an example of HR wank.
The memo goes on to use the phrase ‘consulting with staff’. Argh, HR. Its ‘consult staff’....
King of Pop Art: Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson by Kehinde Wiley
AW: OK, its clearly ridiculous, but at least this painting by Kehinde Wiley, unveiled at Art Basel, Miami Beach has a sense of humour. Unlike the comments posted on the Art Newspaper’s article: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/The-work-the-King-of-Pop-commissioned-but-never-saw/19815
Here is a sample:
awful
Seriously?!? This guy is a freak
This...
Another crowbarred corporate sponser statement
“Creativity and innovation are critical to our business of improving health and well-being, so we want this year’s topic ‘Earth’ to encourage debate, discussion and creative thinking and the role art can play on the relevance that climate change has on our daily lives.”
GlaxoSmithKline, ‘Supporter’s Statement’ for Earth: Art of a changing world,...