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for good times, from good times.  pulp, disco 2000
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today’s best use of kazoo: Dion & The Belmonts, “Little Diane”
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New post on artlog
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“Hirst’s career always threatens to amount to a core of genuine invention surrounded by a vast penumbra of middling merchandise.“
— Modern Art Notes
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Art market readies for Damien Hirst auction - MarketWatch

A prediction and a comment:

Prediction - the sale will do OK but not great - between the high and low estimates, and will be driven largely (60%+ of total buyers) by interests from Russia and the Middle East.  For two reasons: 1. they have the money. 2. the younger the money, the more the focus on the social/status value of an object rather than on it’s artistic value.

Comment - this does represent a significant new channel for the market, similar to Christie’s partnership with Haunch of Venison, for example.  I believe in 10-15 years the landscapes of “brokers” in the art world will look singificantly different than it does today.

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Underground art galleries serve a special niche
nice article about an interesting trend in SF.  reference to my friend Brian Nuda Rosch’s Hallway Bathroom Gallery.
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via http://www.obamaartreport.com/ i’m trying to get a pair

via http://www.obamaartreport.com/

i’m trying to get a pair

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Little-known S.F. gem may be lost
just purchased and saved
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Finally: A Diebenkorn ‘Ocean Park’ survey - Modern Art Notes I will be going to this.
Finally: A Diebenkorn ‘Ocean Park’ survey - Modern Art Notes I will be going to this.
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“Famous art is either offered for ransom (such as the Munch paintings stolen in 2004) or traded on a closed black-market system among organized criminals for an equivalent value of another illicit good, such as drugs or arms. Within this system, a work’s value is generally marked at seven to ten percent of its legitimate auction value“
— Buyer Beware - ARTINFO.com
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“But since the Second World War, art crime has evolved into the third-highest–grossing annual criminal trade worldwide, behind only the drug and arms trades.“
— Buyer Beware - ARTINFO.com
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(via paperbackgirl)
(via paperbackgirl)
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(via paperbackgirl)
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“He wants everything he writes to contain the full complexity of human thought.“
— a friend, talking about her dad. 
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