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      1 Apr 2008

      The art system

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      txt: Arte e sistema dell'arte (1975) - Achille Bonito Oliva
      "The art system is a chain of letters, in which the artist creates, the critic reflects, the gallerist exhibits, the merchant sells, the collector hoards, the museum historicizes, the media celebrates, the public contemplates: this the broader framework in which has always has born and evolved the creative process."
      txt: Who decides the price of art? - Adriana Polveroni - Dweb nr. 591 page 98 (original title: Scandalo al sole. Si pagano 75 milioni per Hirst, 21 per Serra. Chi decide il prezzo dell'arte?)
      Bubble risk, madness, glamour magnet, sacred event. The adjectives that describe today contemporary art are faceted, sufficiently exalted, but all focused around a single issue: the cost. Contemporary art is very expensive, which makes it even more attractive, because money calls money. Now contemporary art is expensive, more than ancient art (if and when it is still available) and in a no different way from any product on the market, from tomatoes to trendy bags, where costs multiply between production and sale. But in the case of art there is also a structured and fascinating world that several years ago Achille Bonito Oliva baptized with one of his happy insights: the art system. -------- Rischio bolla, follia, calamita del glamour, evento sacrale. Le aggettivazioni con cui oggi si descrive l’arte contemporanea sono sfaccettate, sufficientemente esaltate, ma ruotano tutte intorno a un unico tema: il costo. L’arte contemporanea è carissima, dettaglio che la rende ancora più attraente, perché i soldi richiamano soldi. E lo è, costosa, più ormai dell’arte antica (se e quando ancora la si trova) e in maniera non diversa da qualunque prodotto su piazza, dal pomodoro pachino alla borsa griffata dove, tra produzione e vendita, i costi arrivano anche a decuplicarsi perché di mezzo c’è il mercato. Ma nel caso dell’arte c’è anche quel mondo strutturato e fascinoso che diversi anni fa Achille Bonito Oliva battezzò con una delle sue felici intuizioni: il "sistema dell’arte".
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      30 Mar 2008

      You idiot - that’s MoMA (for free!)

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      MoMA Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers January 16–February 12, 2007 - Evenings, 5:00–10:00 P.M. Free Featuring Tilda Swinton, Donald Sutherland, Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Seu Jorge, and Ryan Donowho txt: MoMA Does a Drive-In - New York magazine
      Aitken first had a vision of "skyscrapers communicating with each other" about their "inner lives" during a visit to midtown four years ago. (He lived in New York in the nineties, but calls L.A. home now.) After he brought Creative Time his initial idea in 2003, he and Peter Eleey returned with maps and binoculars, looking for an austere building façade to project on. As they walked down 54th Street, Aitken noticed a huge construction site. “I said, ‘Look at those white walls—that would be perfect for something,’ ” he recalls. “Peter looked at me like, ‘You idiot—that’s MoMA.
      video: Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers, Documentation of the exhibition - - MoMAvideos on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVRds0rTILM]
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      28 Mar 2008

      In search of new audiences

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      txt: Biennale Art 52nd International Art Exhibition
      The 52nd Exhibition also features another new initiative emblematic of the spirit with which the Biennale relates to the international art world. During the course of 2006, the Organisational Division of the Biennale di Venezia initiated a forward-looking dialogue with Art 38 Basel, documenta 12, skulptur projekte münster 07 – which, as a result of a coincidence in scheduling which happens only once every ten years, hold their inaugurations in chronological succession in June 2007 – to create a partnership that finally makes it possible to compare their respective organisational methods and to undertake joint promotional actions in areas of the world (for example the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America) in search of new audiences.
      video: POLACUBE - From: veneziadavivere on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhlEDgLaJk]
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      27 Mar 2008

      Smile! You are on Google

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      txt: The Matrix
      Neo: This isn't real... Morpheus: What is "real"? How do you define "real"? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain... [Turns on TV] This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the 20th century. It exists now only as part of a neural interactive simulation that we call "The Matrix." You've been living in a dream world, Neo. [TV switches to desolate world] This is the world as it exists today...
      video: Google Video Outdoor Campaign on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-WL7FRANM]
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      27 Mar 2008

      Art Mining

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      txt: ArtCal Zine - Armory Show Week 2008 Coverage
      Like any art fair, is it a process of finding diamonds in the rough. In this case, some paintings were literally as sharp as diamonds while others were just rough.
      txt: Boring Art Makes a Come Back at the Armory
      With even more boring art than usual hanging on fair walls, even those who typically enjoy The Armory Show are likely to find it stale this year. Flowing money may inspire ill considered risk taking, but at least there’s some energy to it. Catering to this year’s more considered collector, galleries bring their safest fan fare; lifeless corporate art variations now stretch across the pier as far the eye can see. Sikkema Jenkins, Lehmann Maupin, and Sean Kelly, was a particularly bad area of real estate, each featuring more than their fare share of mediocre art in expensive frames.
      links: Bridge Art Fair ArtNow Red Dot Diva img: SHIT! - Carlitos80 on flickr.com
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      21 Mar 2008

      To the buying eye, art lurks somewhere

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      txt: www.artkrush.com - March 2008
      The commotion that began earlier this month with the opening of the Whitney Biennial 2008 escalates to a full frenzy this week, as galleries, collectors, artists, and curators head to Manhattan for the annual influx of art fairs. In this issue, we hand-pick artists from the Armory Show, VOLTA NY, Pulse, and Scope, while steering you in the direction of a slew of other noteworthy fairs.
      links: SCOPE New York - www.scopenewyork.com PULSE NEW YORK - www.pulse-art.com VOLTA Show - ny.voltashow.com The Armory Show - www.thearmoryshow.com Whitney Biennal 2008 - whitney.org video: Whitney Biennial 2008 - coolhunting on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8GxvMcTZZ0]
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      21 Mar 2008

      To the looking eye art lurks everywhere

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      via: artkrush.com txt: To the trained eye, museum pieces lurk everywhere - International Herald Tribune
      Marc Schiller, co-founder of the Wooster Collective Web site, which exhibits photos of the best street art in the world, knows most people look straight past street art until they start looking for it. "Once you give them a doorway," he said, "they literally go crazy in that they start to see New York has a whole other level of creativity that they had no idea existed." FOR THE MASSES WEB SITES Wooster Collective: www.woostercollective.com Streetsy: www.streetsy.com Flickr: flickr.com - street art groups
      img: Valencia street art - MASSIVE DEFEAT on flickr.com
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      18 Mar 2008

      Is there a future for our past?

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      txt: Is there a Future for our Past? - www.tokyoartbeat.com
      I believe Venice is symbolic of what we’re discussing here. There are not many cities in the world where such a rich past has been conserved. At the same time however, Baghdad, which has a history that goes back to Mesopotamian civilisation, experiences fierce destruction and one of its museums that conserved the first letters in human history was plundered. Two contrasting processes are occurring simultaneously. We can therefore say that when our future is in danger, our past is also in danger. This brings us to the second title. The light that we see is actually sustained by a darkness that is as dark as the light is bright. I encountered Mr. Okabe’s works 6 years ago and I remember being deeply fascinated by the title, which I didn’t fully understand at the time. By slowly discovering Mr. Okabe’s endeavors in Hiroshima however, I came to realise that he was actually transferring the past in its full duality onto paper and this became the theme for our exhibition.
      video: Chihiro Minato and Masao Okabe at Venice Biennale [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fKK437SUCM]
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      18 Mar 2008

      The Move of the Creative Class

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      txt: Who's your city? by Richard Florida
      How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where you live doesn’t matter: you can telecommute to your high-tech Silicon Valley job, a ski-slope in Idaho, a beach in Hawaii or a loft in Chicago; you can innovate from Shanghai or Bangalore. According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Place is not only important, it’s more important than ever. Globalization is not flattening the world; on the contrary, the world is spiky. Place is becoming more relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. The choice of where to live, therefore, is not an arbitrary one. It is arguably the most important decision we make, as important as choosing a spouse or a career. In fact, place exerts powerful influence over the jobs and careers we have access to, the people meet and our “mating markets” and our ability to lead happy and fulfilled lives.
      img: Rhizomatic heteromogeneous idiom - jef safi on flickr.com
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      14 Mar 2008

      The long Pigtails (a Venice story)

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      txt: Who was Emily Harvey? - Emily Harvey Foundation
      In 1992 she married, Angelo Colombo, her Venetian friend, Her marriage to Angelo brought her to Venice for increasing lengths of time. Under Angelo's tutelage she began to learn Venetian Italian and to understand Venice, and the customs of its people. Out of this grew a commitment to Venice that never faded. Venice is a maze of canals, narrow streets and bridges, connecting a vast network of open campos large and small. Most visitors confine themselves to the big shopping streets, the huge piazza at San Marco, the Ponte Rialto and the Grand Canal. But Emily soon knew every little byway and every tiny campiello, and could navigate her way to any point in the city along dark narrow alleys known only to Venetians. She had a kayak, and learned the canals like a Venetian waterman, who called her "Treccia", pigtails, for the way she wore her hair.
      The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice, Italy, for artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, videographers, choreographers, dancers, musicians, curators, arts administrators, architects, and other creative thinkers in mid to late career who are engaged in the project of change, and who work the leading edges of their disciplines. They may come from anywhere in the world. img: venezia è un pesce - Fr3ccia on flickr.com
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