May 25, 2013
Hilarious. 

Hilarious. 

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May 25, 2013
blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC:  Two images care of the punk couture show that previewed today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – and that I just panned on TheDailyBeast.com. In that cranky review, however, I didn’t have room to mention that, among the talentless couturier copycats of punk who dominate the show, there are also a few designers, such as Rei Kawakubo  and Martin Margiela, who are genuine artistic geniuses. The thing is, I think that by including them the curators are guilty of that heinous sin that art historians call pseudomorphism: Imagining that because two artworks look the same, they also mean the same thing and play the same role in our culture. When  Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook wore a Union Jack t-shirt in the late 1970s (left) his brash punk gesture meant something utterly different than when Rei Kawakubo, a Japanese intellectual, reworked the British flag (right) into runway fashion in 2006. Ditto for punk’s rebellious repurposing of junk and the Maison Martin Margiela’s thoughtful recycling of consumer goods in the fabulous Artisanal line it launched a few years ago. (Left, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Dennis Morris; right, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Catwalking)
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blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC:  Two images care of the punk couture show that previewed today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – and that I just panned on TheDailyBeast.com. In that cranky review, however, I didn’t have room to mention that, among the talentless couturier copycats of punk who dominate the show, there are also a few designers, such as Rei Kawakubo  and Martin Margiela, who are genuine artistic geniuses. The thing is, I think that by including them the curators are guilty of that heinous sin that art historians call pseudomorphism: Imagining that because two artworks look the same, they also mean the same thing and play the same role in our culture. When  Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook wore a Union Jack t-shirt in the late 1970s (left) his brash punk gesture meant something utterly different than when Rei Kawakubo, a Japanese intellectual, reworked the British flag (right) into runway fashion in 2006. Ditto for punk’s rebellious repurposing of junk and the Maison Martin Margiela’s thoughtful recycling of consumer goods in the fabulous Artisanal line it launched a few years ago. (Left, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Dennis Morris; right, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Catwalking)


For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of thedailybeast.com, and on that site’s Art Beast page.

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May 24, 2013

May 23, 2013
Abstract Animated Lines! The Whitney’s New Logo, and Other Applications


All-star designers Experimental Jet Set say the W they’ve used for the Whitney’s logo represents “the heartbeat of New York, of USA.” It “encapsulates” a “dialectic between the ‘old world’ and the ‘new world’. Does this…

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May 14, 2013

Art F City Selects at NADA New York

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May 6, 2013
From Jon Rafman’s 9 Eyes. 

From Jon Rafman’s 9 Eyes

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April 29, 2013
"It’s tempting to say that men still predominate because they control the money, and for the most part it does take a lot of money to become a great collector. But the explanation is too simple: many great collectors begin when the objects of their affection are out of fashion or underappreciated."

This would be a great way of shooting down a counterargument if every other example in the story wasn’t about billionaire male collectors who buy the most fashionable work possible.

“Where are the female Steve Cohens?” is basically the question she is asking. Try as one might to frame it that way, the answer has nothing to do with art collecting habits. It has a lot more to do with a lack of female billionaires with hundreds of millions of pocket change to throw around at Christie’s. 

(Further, the examples of the sort of “underappreciated” collecting style mentioned above — Herb and Dorthy Vogel, and to a lesser extent Alice Walton — sort of torpedoes the whole “where are the female collectors” argument IMO.)

[Judith Dobrzynski]

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April 26, 2013
Hannah Starkey at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Hannah Starkey at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

April 26, 2013
George W. Bush Learned to Paint on an iPadPeople are not tired of hearing about Painter George W. Bush. In an interview with NPR’s Morning…View Post

George W. Bush Learned to Paint on an iPad

People are not tired of hearing about Painter George W. Bush. In an interview with NPR’s Morning…

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April 24, 2013
Wednesday Links: Duchamp’s Urinal Lives OnDan Fox is now the co-editor of Frieze. [Frieze]
How do you build a large contemporary art…
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Wednesday Links: Duchamp’s Urinal Lives On

  • Dan Fox is now the co-editor of Frieze. [Frieze]
  • How do you build a large contemporary art…

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