Lets start by stating that Jerry Saltz is an idiot douche bag.  I have never met the man and to be perfectly honest I am not all that familiar with his criticism.  When I was at the School of Visual Arts, the “in” crowd was always kissing his ass.  They were chumming up to him [...]

It is nice to see a Rothko in the whitehouse.  Ed Ruscha is one of the most useless artists of all time but at least they didn’t put up a Sheepard Fairey or Damien Hirst.  They could have chosen a few younger, living, artists.  Maybe thrown a few bones to the DC locals if there [...]

The artist as global brand
By Jackie Wullschlager

San Francisco Painter Barbara Vos Presents Rhythm Vision at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary

Barbara Vos started painting figuratively, (life drawing) at 12 years old and fondly remembers enjoying working with glazes in her teens. Article by: Neila Mezynski SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- I first saw Barbara Vos’s work in 1992 in a show entitled Absence [...]

Exhibition of Pakistani art works opens in New York
By Masood Haider
Thursday, 10 Sep, 2009 | 10:26 AM PST |

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Get out of my dreams II, 2008 — Faiza Butt

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Politically sensitive art to be exhibited at sea
Ex-Territory shows works by Arab and Israeli artists in neutral waters outside Tel Aviv
By Charmaine Picard | Web only
Published online 1 Sep 09 (News)

New york. A two-year initiative called Ex-Territory is being launched on 7 September in the extra-territorial waters outside of Tel Aviv. Using a privately donated [...]

India Art Summit deemed a success, with strong sales of Indian art
By Lucian Harris | Web only
Published online 1 Sep 09 (market)

Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 2009. One of two Kapoor works sold by Lisson Gallery at the India Art Summit, Delhi
Delhi. The India Art Summit, held in Delhi from 19-22 August, may prove to be a [...]

FROM ART DAILY.ORG
The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art to Open at Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego in September
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will present an innovative exhibition mapping the influence of architecture on contemporary visual art in an international context. Entitled Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in [...]

FROM ARTDAILY.ORG – Phoebe Washburn Creates Installation Specifically Conceived for kestnergesellschaft Hanover

| Conceptually this work bores me to death, but I like how it looks like a shanty town and it reminds me of patched together half pipes that kids would build out in the woods.   – SD |
HANNOVER.- With her exhibition ‘COMPESHITSTEM – the [...]

Thu, Mar 12, 2009 – Environmental Graffiti
James Turrell bends traditional notions of art like a painting hung on a wall by turning the wall itself into art. His art is also technically not there as he uses only light and space – and the viewer’s perception. Find out more about this exceptional artist, whose canvas [...]