awesome!!!

Quoted: The entire space was created by lashing together almost 1.3 million cable ties. The result is nothing short of amazing. Visitors are invited to explore the surreal landscape of cocoons, webs and light called “The Third Space” that took a staggering 16,870 hours to complete.

this must be amazing to see in person

Quoted: The work was on display as part of the Paul Klee Centre's outdoor exhibition "East of Eden: A Garden Show," and was designed to deflate in case of adverse weather. However, it failed to do so. Instead, "Complex Shit" was carried by a gust of wind until it hit power lines and descended, breaking the window of a nearby children's home.

MCB thinks donald "prof" kuspit is a douchebag (and he is) for declaring postmodern art as random bullshit. good read if you like art theorists going apeshit over some subjective statement (and i do).

quoted: In this rather undifferentiated morass of feints at video, photography, sculpture and above all earnestly political, identity-based Conceptual Art, the paintings spring out like little oases of personal thought, concentration and effort. Some nonpainting efforts come into focus with time, but the first impression is a telling lesson in why painting doesn’t die; it is at the very least a good way for young artists to grasp the kind of density of expression that any art medium requires. (It helps to remember that most of the first generation Conceptualists were educated and began their careers as painters.)...Perhaps an overfamiliarity with Conceptual Art and especially the theories it inspired can leave young artists with no sense of how to make an artwork that holds together as an experience. You can sense the lack of connection to either materials or self in their statements, which appear on the wall labels beside the work.

Quoted: Part of the debate resides in the historical separation that began with Erasmus and the Renaissance, where "hard" was divorced from the "soft" sciences and arts -- a division that is still visible both geographically and intellectually on university campuses, as well as amongst scholarly disciplines themselves. But some see the reciprocal and perhaps limitless possibilities of emergent technologies and humanities scholarship -- how digital technology cuts across disciplines, creates new ways of looking at artifacts, as well as producing new forms itself.

Quoted: Imageless; the scientific study and experimental treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting. It should interest anyone who is fascinated by Ad Reinhardt’s late, reductive works with their velvety qualities as well as painters, collectors and others with a serious interest in surface effects of paint.

Quoted: Why is it so GOD DAMNED hard to sell a piece of art around here? I can’t help asking myself this as I soon join the ranks of civilians outside the Art World proper and close the doors on my 4 year long project, Lisa Boyle Gallery.

Quoted: Loans can be structured in various ways. Banks, including U.S. Trust, Citigroup, and Emigrant Bank Fine Art Finance, offer both term loans (which come due at a specific date) and lines of credit, to clients including high net-worth individuals, galleries, trusts, and museums. They may loan against a specific work, several works, or a whole collection, generally up to 50% of the market value of the collateral.