Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 23, 2009, 5:20 am
‘He poses post-identity, post-shock questions of libidinal impulse as consumer instinct’ Randy Polumbo: Artistic Statement, BoxoFFICE, accessed 23 November 2009 Read more: http://www.boxofficepr...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 20, 2009, 6:00 am
‘in looking at almost any Italian Renaissance nude a man should sense the stirring of his loins, whether he contemplates the post-coital dissatisfaction of the girl who plays Venus for Botticelli el...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 18, 2009, 4:41 am
‘Atheist Damien Hirst to display oil paintings in St Paul’s’ ‘Atheist Damien Hirst to display oil paintings in St Paul’s’, Times online, 8 November 2009 Read more: http://entertainment.t...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 16, 2009, 5:57 pm
“Anyone can be like Rembrandt,” he told The Guardian. “I don’t think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. It’s about freedom and guts. It’s about looking. It can be learnt. That’s...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 16, 2009, 9:15 am
‘Kapernekas has agreed to drop the federal suit and claims on the Hirsts in exchange for: custody of their daughter’ Lindsay Pollock, Henkel Heir, Mistress Settle Suit on $48 Million in Two Hirst...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 13, 2009, 5:29 am
‘Nowadays he has surely the biggest and most diverse set of artist-friends in London (there are more than 1,700 on his Myspace site)’ ‘Hans Ulrich Obrist - the God of planet art’, Evening Sta...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 11, 2009, 4:30 am
‘A mural by graffiti artist Banksy has been defaced in south London while a public vote was taking place calling for its preservation.’ ‘The council is deciding whether the mural can be restore...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 10, 2009, 4:45 am
“Where do you shop? I don’t. I detest the entire experience. I find it to be the most tedious activity. So most of my things are bespoke. I have a fantastic and brilliant couturier who I work with...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 9, 2009, 4:00 am
‘Half a century on I now see only evidence of hysterical activity in the frenzied surfaces, of grotesque excess in the excrescented depths of paint’ Brian Sewell, ‘The paint’s the thing for F...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 6, 2009, 5:01 am
“On 6 November 2009, Beaconsfield will invite the public to view a culmination of Bob and Roberta Smith’s work with a maximalist display in their retro Arch space. The display will highlight the t...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 5, 2009, 7:28 am
‘There will be some who will miss the fun of having contemporary art in the square. Smith said he had nothing against it as such — “I think it is a very fine thing and I own several contemporary...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 4, 2009, 5:01 am
“These indicate a shift towards a nuanced re-investigation of the iconography in the artist’s new works.” Press Release, William Cordova, Laberintos, Jenkins & Co., New York, October 24 – Dec...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Nov 3, 2009, 7:25 am
Laura Cumming questions society’s ambigious approach to sexual depictions of children in art. Whilst singularly omitting any form of historical analysis or recognising changing concepts of social an...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 30, 2009, 6:06 am
‘The new festival will be a non-stop research lab into today’s creation.’ Le Nouveau Festival, Du Centre Pompidou; The New Festival (Press Release), October 21 2009 - November 23 2009 Read m...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 29, 2009, 5:17 am
‘London- based artist Annette Philo investigates what we see and the way in which we see it through her work in film. By exploring different ways in which a mundane occurrence creates a visual event...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 28, 2009, 5:26 am
What, I wonder, passed through the mind of sculptors in an age of faith when carving the buttocks and genitals of Christ? Brian Sewell, ‘The agony and ecstasy of The Sacred Made Real’, The Evenin...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 26, 2009, 5:27 am
The red plug just popped from the barrel like the corona of a half-stimulated penis from its foreskin and plopped on to the floor. Brian Sewell, ‘Montezuma’s revenge from Anish Kapoor’, Evening...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 23, 2009, 4:56 am
‘Its publications arm, Tate Publishing, faces having to dump up to 12,000 catalogues that have been printed for the Pop Life exhibition at Tate Modern, which contain the offending image of a 10-year...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 22, 2009, 8:18 am
Tracey Emin, Hat, £24.27 Pop Life Boutique, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate Modern, 2009 AW: If we ever doubted which side of the Art-Consumerism boundary the Pop Life exhibition falls into...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 21, 2009, 10:07 am
today saw a seismic shift in the art Zeitgeist Mark Hudson, ‘It couldn’t get worse for Damien Hirst’, The Telegraph, 14 October 2009 Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/6329047/It...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 19, 2009, 6:08 am
“I’m simply not willing to pay tax at 50%”. Tracey Emin, quoted in Sam Jones, ‘Tracey Emin threatens to quit Britain over top tax rate’, the Guardian, Sunday 4 October 2009 Read More: http...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Oct 14, 2009, 5:27 am
‘Catherine Wood, another exhibition curator, said: “I’ve been frustrated by the focus on the making of money in relation to the exhibition. These artists are probably not that rich, certainly co...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Sep 16, 2009, 8:48 am
“It is undeniable that digital tools are today’s new paintbrushes,” Mr. Cornette said. “The issue lies in the way the pieces are sold.” Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr, quoted by Alice Pfeiffe...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Sep 14, 2009, 11:05 am
My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Charles Saatchi, My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic, London (Phaidon) 2009 See it: http://tinyurl.com/p3myco AW: We have been looking ...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Sep 11, 2009, 10:03 am
I don’t know what it means, but it means something that collectively we’ve all decided it means. Marc Quinn, ‘Statuephilia: Siren by Marc Quinn’ video, Guardian, accessed 11.09.09 See more: ...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Sep 11, 2009, 4:54 am
“Murakami is obsessed with poo-poo” One of Takashi Murakami’s studio assistants, in Sean O’Hagan, ‘The art of selling out’, The Observer, 6 September 2009 Read more: http://www.guardian....
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Sep 10, 2009, 4:09 am
the board and the foundation which employ them have very deep pockets and will ‘drag me through the courts until I bleed’ Joe Simon, ‘My Story’, www.myandywarhol.com, accessed 10.09.09 Backs...
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Arthur W. posted an article on Art Wank - Aug 13, 2009, 9:58 am
Napket Picadilly has been meticulously refitted to evoke a sophisticated cafe. www.napket.com But: It IS a cafe. And yet is also evokes a cafe. It must be a ‘meta-cafe’. Dude, you’re twisting ...
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