Quoted: Szymczyk and Filipovic deliberately chose artists with little visibility. Eighty percent of the artworks were specially commissioned for the biennial. There are lots of long, very slow- moving video installations and the end result is way too cerebral. I left the press preview thinking: Where is the wow factor? Where is the show?

i'm all for wow factors. but i'm also tired of seeing how production value of art has seemingly gone up for the wrong reasons. work that push the boundaries of conventions such as context and display could be difficult but who says art has to be easy. self-aware but not self-conscious, it seems like artists mentioned here are simply returning expectations the viewing public has been throwing at them. so try a little harder. trust me you'll get more out it.

Quoted: Art moves in mysterious ways and no government initiative, no matter how well-intentioned, can kick-start a new Renaissance

Quoted: Art critic Jerry Saltz and art dealer Jeffrey Deitch came to the Wharton School Wednesday to talk about the art biz. The talk was a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Art and Wharton.

lol

Quoted: Bad Beuys Entertainment is an art collective that was founded in 1999 at Cergy-Pontoise in the Parisian suburbs. Their creative mission is summed up in their moniker: a hybrid of American showbiz-ness (aka Bad Boys Entertainment, a major U.S. hip-hop recording label) and the ideals of German artist Joseph Beuys, whose conception of social relationships as art has had enduring influence.

sounds like a winner!

Quoted: Promoting the use of free and open source software to digital artists by providing high quality information in the form of a constatntly developing handbook.

Quoted: NewArtTV is the video channel on contemporary art, broadcasting video on artists and art events worldwide.

Quoted: SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE brings together a group of thirty-four Japanese and international contemporary artists, architects and designers in an exhibition which asks them to respond to the current and future conditions of creative production in the 21st Century; a moment in which shared visions of the future are no longer possible while the eclecticism and quotations of the postmodern world are fading into the past.

Quoted: Art adviser Kim Heirston has helped old money and new get into the market. Does she sense a correction? Well, yes, but...